While meeting with constituents, Senator Mike Parry had a public meltdown over the ongoing budget talks, blaming Governor Dayton for everything short of the weather. His tantrum left his much younger colleague, the baby-faced Representative Kory Kath, to provide the grown-up moment.
Yesterday's Owatonna People's Press reported in Local legislators butt heads over budget talk:
There was just one issue on everyone’s mind Wednesday morning when state Sen. Mike Parry, R-Waseca, and state Rep. Kory Kath, D-Owatonna, stopped by the AmericInn Hotel and Convention Center for the Coffee with Legislators event.
The issue? The unresolved state budget. . . .
The article chronicles the back-and-forth between Parry and Kath, until the Waseca pol decides that only one player is responsible for the situation:
Parry said that at this point, the shutdown was out of the Legislature’s hands and now in Gov. Daytons’.
“Let me be very straightforward. This majority produced 10 fiscally sound budgets. There’s only one person that shuts this state down, only one, and that is this governor that we have,” Parry said.
Kath was having none of it:
Kath quickly jumped in, calling Parry’s statement “completely false” and told him he was dishonoring his office.
“Everybody’s in this game right now about making sure this does not happen on July 1. Let’s be serious, negotiations are between two different sides,” Kath said. “Mike, don’t stand here and dishonor your office as a senator and my office as a representative to say we’re not all in this.”
Leave it to a star educator to know how to discipline the wannabe bully in the room.
Read the comments as well. For a paper whose readers tend to leave pro-Republican observations, the remarks don't particular trend toward Michael Brodkorb's pet broadcaster.
Photo: Senator Parry tries to grasp civility--and strangle it!
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