MinnPost: Asbestos-bill veto was Dayton's 7th related to ALEC efforts

[highplainsdem]

http://www.minnpost.com/politics-policy/2012/04/asbestos-bill-veto-was-daytons-7th-related-alec-efforts

On Monday, Gov. Mark Dayton issued his 12th veto of the current session, returning Senate File 1236 to the Legislature accompanied by a sharply worded letter. The so-called corporate successor liability law would have curtailed the legal liability of a company that buys or merges with another company that in any way dealt with asbestos.

“The true impact of this legislation should not go without comment,” Dayton wrote, detailing the deadly legacy of asbestos manufacturing and exposure. “I opposed efforts in the United States Senate to limit exposure of asbestos manufacturers and to shift the costs of these injuries to taxpayers and others.”

The bill was the seventh vetoed measure this year that originally was drafted and disseminated by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the secretive, far-right group that has birthed much of the virtually identical pro-business, anti-labor legislation that has swept through statehouses nation-wide over the last two years.

Five of the vetoed ALEC bills would have reduced corporate exposure to lawsuits and potential damages in Minnesota. The other two are the Voter ID bill and the Castle Doctrine or “Shoot First” bill.

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[dflprincess]

1. The voter ID bill was veoted by Gov. Dayton last year

ALEC's GOP stooges passed it this year as a Constitutional Amendment which does not go to the governor so there was no way Dayton could save us from it this year.

Sadly, most polls show the majority of Minnesotans support voter ID (it just sounds so logical) - despite the fact that the Republicans made it clear that it will be up to the 2013 legislature to fill in the details about just what ID will be acceptable and just what will happen to military and other absentee ballots.