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Crookston Times: Emmer says Government Should Serve, Not Rule

July 28, 2010
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The Crookston Times:

The Minnesota Department of Transportation, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the Minnesota Department of Health and, especially, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agencies were cited by Republican-endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer during a Monday visit with supporters in Crookston as examples of bloated, overly aggressive state agencies that he'd rein in if elected. Their budgets and staffs are so large and the regulations they oversee are so immense, Emmer said at RBJ's Family Restaurant, that it seems as though they actually compete as enforcement agents when Minnesota businesses and farmers are in apparent violation.

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