State workers reject contract offers (minnesota)

[Wickerman]

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4126037.html

This is a direct contradiction of a request by gov. Timmy Pawlenty.

Two state employee unions meeting in South St. Paul today moved closer to their second strike in two years by rejecting contract offers from Gov. Tim Pawlenty's administration.

The votes by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 6 and the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees won't immediately land their combined 27,000 members on the picket lines. But it gives them the ability to walk out if new talks can't produce a negotiated settlement.
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votes were 80% of membership and 66% of memebership - convincing. They struck two years ago when Ventura told them they could forget pay raises that meant anything. This time Pawlenty was telling them they could absorb increased health costs.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Stick a fork on Pawlenty

He's done. Recall his sorry ass -- show him what MN are made out of!

You guys get weird governors. First it was Ventura (which I still think of him as the Body from his WWF days), and now you got a Repukkk named Pawlenty that doesn't help MN at all.

I sympatheize with you MN folks - we got one asshole in the governor's mansion and we're planning on throwing him out in 2006. Family values - my foot. He's currently seperated from his wife.

Hawkeye-X

[Wickerman]

2. Thanks, he and Normie Coleman are embarassments

to the extreme. All careerism, nothing for the state. family values, yeah, Coleman's wife lives in Hollywood so she can be an extra in series that you've never heard of and supposedly they both maintain other "interests". Now, he is threatening that if ANWR is in the energy bill he will probably cave and vote for it:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/4124228.html

Coleman says he may trade ANWR drilling for Iron Range funds
The Iron Range needs help, but this would be an iffy project that creates a max of 600 jobs at the expense of Alaskan wilderness.