MN's Gov. Pawlenty is protested on White Bear Lake

[annm4peace]

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/05/10/opinion-pawlenty-fishy-white-bear-lake.html#comment-38496

Anyone lucky enough to own lakeshore property knows what a crock the Governor’s “no new taxes” pledge is. As state aid is cut to cities and schools, our property tax rates have sky-rocketed. Counties, desperate to close the Pawlenty created deficits, are ratcheting up our supposed “market values” even as sales prices are falling. Taxed-out average earners are forced to sell the lakeshore homes they’ve owned for 20, 30 or 40 years. These modest converted cabins are torn down and replaced with McMansions, yet another example of Pawlenty’s strategy of squeezing the middle to feed the fat cats. So, I got sort of steamed out on the lake when a beer bellied bozo in Pawlenty’s entourage shouted at us to “go home.”


"Pawlenty’s cuts to bridge maintenance, preventive medical care and higher education, have left us dumber, sicker and with bridges falling down. He spared no expense however for the Republican Convention. Seems the fishing opener is the best excuse he can come up with to reuse all the militaristic paraphernalia. Boats and boats of sheriffs, helicopters buzzing the lake, the Mobile Incident Unit Command Center, it would have been comical if I didn’t know I was paying for it. I’m happy they didn’t dip into their million dollar stockpile of tear gas. It was a display worthy of a vice presidential want-to-be not a self-described fiscally conservative governor of a cash strapped state."

[annm4peace]

1. great song that tells of Pawlenty

from an earlier in the week event.
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/article/2009/05/08/golden-bush-award-governor-tim-pawlenty-gala-affair.html#comment-38485

By Sue Ann Martinson , Free Speech /zone
May 08, 2009

Minnesotans for Personal Responsibility—PawLenty for Us!—present Governor Tim Pawlenty with a Golden Bush Award


On Tuesday, May 5, 2009, Minnesotans for Personal Responsibility(MPR) presented Governor Tim Pawlenty with a Golden Bush Award in honor of his continuation of George W. Bush’s policies of tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, not social services to families, children, the elderly or disabled.



Song:
Pawlenty of Nuttin’ (words by Brigid McDonald

We’ve got Pawlenty of nuttin’
And Pawlenty’s the reason for that

Got no home, but we got a dome,
No health insurance
Got tapped phones
Can’t get loans for students Ph.D.
Yes . . .

Banks get bailed, the poor get jailed
And live in misery
Can’t get funds, but you can get guns
For security
Yes . . .

Close the schools, but make more rules
For welfare families
Don’t tax wealth,
just pray for good health
Enjoy your poverty
Yes . . .

Veto this, veto that
Don’t tax corporate greed
Soon we’ll have to pass the hat
For folks who are in need . . .
Yes . . .

The bridge goes down, in our town
But send our guard to war
Tax the poor, while stadiums soar
He’s bad news all around
Yes . . .

Cut backs here, cut backs there
Ignore the environment
Call in force with no remorse
No room for dissent
Yes . . .

We’ll just ignore the governor
He won’t get our consent
It’s not fair that he doesn’t care
He’s on the wrong side of the fence

(Very Loud!)
Yes, we’ve got Pawlenty of nuttin’
And Pawlenty’s the reason for that

[IDemo]

2. DU'er Bjorn Against tells all about it here->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5625575

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. Is Magnepan still located in White Bear Lake?

They make some absolutely fantastic speakers. Pricey but fantastic sound. I owned a pair back in the '70s and '80s.

[annm4peace]

4. what are you talking about ? :)

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. An American speaker manufacturer located in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

I hope they're still there and doing well. Will do a Google search and check them out.

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. They are still there.

Magnepan has sold over 200,000 speakers over the past 40 years, and they are still hand-made in White Bear Lake. Prices start at $599.00.

http://www.magnepan.com/

Magneplanars - for Music and Home Theater

Magnepan has manufactured full-range ribbon and planar stereo speakers for 40 years. Magneplanar home theater and stereo speakers have one common attribute: high resolution. High resolution in home theater speakers creates the same "magic" for home theater as music lovers have experienced from Magneplanar stereo speakers for the past 40 years

MAGNEPAN
1645 Ninth Street
White Bear Lake, MN 55110
USA

[annm4peace]

7. that's great.. glad to hear it

I haven't been up there much but it is a big beautiful lake

I thought maybe you meant sneakers, but that didn't make sense either.