Dayton signs GOP’s environmental petition reform into law

Bipartisanship is good but do we really need more six legged frogs and inedible fish in Minnesota? We clearly shouldn’t trust industries to assess their own environmental impact.

Praise Jebus, God hates clear water and blue skies, Amen.

Bad Marky !! Bad Markie !! BAD!! Please don’t Cow Tow to these Knuckle head Corporate Fascists .. 3M , Koch Oil and Monsanto DO NOT CARE ABOUT OUR AIR, OUR SOIL or our WATER!! The land of 10,000 sledge ponds is what is coming next if these corporations are allowed to self regulate without responsible oversight..

Now watch as all the “environmentalist” groups like say the Sierra Club start to make excuses for this. Just like so many of the “peace and justice” community make excuses for the warmongering of the Democrats.

This is a very bad sign. Of course quite frankly I expected nothing less. After all, I remember Senator Mark Dayton being opposed to an investigation into election fraud in Ohio 2004. With his statement that “Those who speak of election fraud, while well meaning are seriously misguided.” Right after Senator Barbara Boxer had called for ann investigation (She was the only one) I knew he was a coward then.

So now the question is very direct and simple.

Do the people of Minnesota and the US have the moral and political courage and integrity to actively oppose the current corporate regime?

Egypt is not a river in Denial.

@MC RN
Say what?
“Just like so many of the “peace and justice” community make excuses for the warmongering of the Democrats.”
Name names please.

Letting the applicant submit his own impact statement sets up the easy path to a rubber stamp. This also separates the court from the actual area in question and chills the appeals process.

On the other hand, it is probably the best that Dayton could have gotten out of the GOP. And he is going to have to pick his battles if he wants to do more than veto.

Chapter and Verse

There are far too many to name.

How about just for starters

Marie Braun of Women Against Military Madness

Dick Bernard of Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers

Then there is the complicity of silence of many “progressive” groups on the Democrats warmongering. Take Action Minnesota, AFSME Council 5 and their support groups, MICAH etc etc etc.

What makes this really sad is that it mirrors the Trade Union Movement and it’s purging of radical voices and visions. Which has led directly to the weakening of said Trade Union Movement.

The common idea that “Thank The Unions for week-ends, repeal of Child Labor Laws etc etc” is a lie.

You need to thank radicals like Dorothy Day, Emma Goldmann, Eugene Debs and others who drove the Trade Union to take strong, courageous stands.

Who were then driven out of the Trade Union Movement by that glittering liberal hero, Hubert Humphrey.

Now a days, the Trade Union Movement is a sad, pale shadow of it’s former self.

Zera Lee

Veto is the only viable option he has.

Or capitulate.

So this capitulation is a very, very bad sign.

Unless folks are really OK with the corporate polluters writing the Bills and implementing their own environmental impact statements.

Just the way the corporate plutocracy wants it.

Egypt is not just a river in Denial.

We need a Democracy Now Movement. Right here in the US of A. In Minnesot-ah too, eh?

This is terrible. But I’m sad to say that Dayton has only made official what these agencies under Pawlenty and Ventura and probably Carlson have been doing all along. It’s bad for big business to let people know really what the effects of business actions are on their water, air, food or climate. Bad on you Mark! Boo, hiss!