Corner House Comments: the posts we hoped to write

What with the breaking elephant fight today,  we didn't get around to writing about the local response to the veto down in the Southwestern corner of Minnesota. Fortunately, Corner House Comments is on it, writing a couple of posts. In Fixing roads, putting people to work, CHC concludes:

The Daily Globe also opines about the tactics the Minnesota GOP is using on the members of their party who voted in favor of addressing our infrastructure needs. In Party Presure Pressures, the dilemma facing Rep. Rod Hamilton(R) is discussed. Here is the last paragraph from the Daily Globe editorial:

It should trouble all of us when parties attempt to hold elected officials hostage, thereby making it increasingly difficult for them to do the job they’re supposed to be doing — serving the people who elected them. Why do we elect representatives in the first place, then?

Rod Hamilton voted to override the Governor's veto. The reward for people in his district? Work on Highway 60, which is crumbling. The reward for Hamilton? Andy Birkey at the Minnesota Monitor has the story in Six moderates out, six conservatives in: GOP changes leadership in wake of override vote.

Yesterday, CHC wrote Independent in Marshall has different view than Seifert.

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