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Wellstone ruled

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3. For those of us who lived in Minnesota

Reply to EffieBlack (Original post)

Sat Jan 12, 2019, 04:57 PM

Jan 2019

years ago,remember Arnie Carlson savaging the Highway Workers in the same manner and it worked. The sucker won the Governorship with that tactic. And the Minnesota Highway Department has been a wreck ever since.

Thousands of Jobs not being filled.

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Government employees are often smeared as lazy grifters suckling taxpayers' teats [View all] EffieBlack Jan 2019 OP

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Yes! Thanks! EffieBlack Jan 2019 #4

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