With 3 weeks left, budget showdown ahead at Capitol

04/28/2007

By Patricia Lopez,
Star Tribune
April 28, 2007


Fresh from passing a tax bill that represents the last major piece of their proposed state budget, DFL leaders of the Minnesota House will join forces this week with Senate party leaders in an effort to persuade Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty that he should break with his long-held doctrine and sign an income tax increase.

So far, Pawlenty's attitude has amounted to "fat chance." Secure in the knowledge that DFLers need Republican votes to thwart his will, the governor instead has threatened to veto every spending bill in sight.

Who wins the staredown in the final three weeks of the legislative session could determine whether schools get their biggest funding increase in years, who gets health care, and whether Minnesota's rich will pay the highest state income tax rate in the nation

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