While waiting for the Minnesota House to come out of recess, I meandered over to Action 4 Liberty's Facebook and saw the post preserved in the screenshot above.
It leads to William Beck's Monday, May 15 post on the group's website, Democrats Celebrate Fishing License Fee Increase. Hart reports:
Democrats have long pretended to be the party of the “little guy.” In Minnesota, it’s clear that the stereotype is not holding up.
Governor Walz and his legislative cronies are pushing every new tax and regulation that they can, which hurts the average citizen more than anyone. Their latest policy aim would increase fees on fishing licenses and state park admission.
Here is Walz’s proposal for increasing fees:
- Raise fishing license fee from $25 to $30
- Raise fishing boat fees from $27 to $59
- Doubling the aquatic species fee from $10 to $20
- Increase state park stamp fees from $35 to $45
These proposals are expected to be included in the Democrat's environmental omnibus bill, which will likely be revealed sometime this week. . . .
The Action 4 Liberty's great expectations have already been dashed.
Apparently, Beck and the gang over at Action 4 Liberty hasn't been watching the environment, natural resources, climate and energy conference committee meetings or reading the spreadsheet on agreements (page 10) so far or reading Session Daily's article posted last Friday, Conferees nearly home on environment, natural resources agreement, by Margaret Stevens.
Bluestem posted Stevens ' article on Friday as Conferees close to environment, natural resources agreement; climate, energy to come.
They weren’t completely done at the traditional weekend knock-off time of 5 p.m. Friday, but members of the environment, natural resources, climate and energy conference committee completed much of their work with agreement on a budget for environment and natural resources.
Provisions regarding climate and energy are still to come.
Sponsored by Rep. Rick Hansen (DFL-South St. Paul) and Sen. Foung Hawj (DFL-St. Paul), HF2310 would appropriate $1 billion from the General Fund during the upcoming biennium for the state’s environment and natural resources – an increase of $667 million. General Fund spending would be $499.7 million for the Department of Natural Resources, $279.6 million for the Pollution Control Agency and $120 million for the Board of Water and Soil Resources.
The agreement would increase triannual boat registration fees but would not change fees for state parks or fishing licenses.
“I think this is strong policy and a strong spreadsheet that everyone on this committee should be proud to vote for,” said Rep. Sydney Jordan (DFL-Mpls). . . .
We texted Chair Hansen about the "Doubling the aquatic species fee from $10 to $20" --presumably the trout and walleye stamps now erased from the budget within brackets [( )] on the spreadsheet.
What we see is the conference committee deciding to cancel part of the governor's budget request that appears to have passed in both chambers. Now it's gone. Whomever the Democrats on the committee--and Chanhassen Republican Senator Julia Coleman--are attacking in their work, it doesn't sound like the average angler is the target.
Action 4 Liberty, on the other hand, is trying to whip up class resentment, based on dated information.
As Bluestem has reported in the past, Action 4 Liberty made the Republican Party of Minnesota's Minnesota Scammers Exposed website.
Other media outlets reported on Action 4 Liberty's behavior in Action 4 Liberty candidates challenging Republicans across the state and Rep. Nolan West seeks charges after being thrown out of Action 4 Liberty event in Blaine.
They seem nice, even to other Republicans.
Here's the Action 4 Liberty Facebook post as it stands while I write this entry. If you're on Facebook, you might consider leaving a comment setting the record straight for Action 4 Liberty's readers.
Related posts
- Conferees close to environment, natural resources agreement; climate, energy to come
- MinnPost: In effort to curb CWD, DFL lawmakers agree to ban new captive deer farms
- Strib: conference committee votes for moratorium on new deer farms to fight CWD
- Bill author not buying Gary Dahms' alternate reality about Upper Sioux Agency Park transfer
- Video & news digest: Granite Falls informational hearing on transferring Upper Sioux Agency State Park to Yellow Medicine Community
- Action 4 Liberty, Brodkorb publish "confidential" MNGOP state chair abortion email to candidates
- Not all Action 4 Liberty candidates failed at the ballot box: the case of Nathan
Screenshot: The Action 4 Liberty Facebook page post.
If you appreciate Bluestem Prairie, you can mail contributions (payable to Sally Jo Sorensen, 600 Maple Street, Summit SD 57266) or use the paypal button in the upper right hand corner of this post.
Or you can contribute via this link to paypal; use email [email protected] as recipient.
I'm on Venmo for those who prefer to use this service: @Sally-Sorensen-6
Comments