Emmer for Governor
10. Mark Dayton claiming education funding went down $1300 per student during the Pawlenty years. The KSTP Truth Test said: “that’s not true,” and noted per pupil education funding went up during the Pawlenty administration from $4601 in 2004 to $5124 in 2010.
9. Matt Entenza claiming Tom Emmer supports No Child Left Behind. Tom Emmer co-authored a bill in the legislature to eliminate NCLB (HF 0614) and voted several times to get rid of it on the House floor.
8. Matt Entenza claiming Tom Emmer supported “drastic cuts to education funding.” Tom Emmer has never voted to cut the general education funding formula, and there haven’t been drastic cuts to education (see #10).
7. Margaret Anderson Kelliher claiming she “led the charge for weatherization funding.” Weatherization funding was part of the federal stimulus plan, was allocated to states based on a historic formula and required no help from state legislators.
6. Mark Dayton claiming Tom Emmer wants to “eliminate all public health care funding and turn everybody who can't afford health care to go to some doctor's office and ask for care.” Emmer supports creating incentives for doctors and clinics to continue providing charity care, but has never advocated eliminating all public health care funding. Wow.
5. Margaret Anderson Kelliher and Matt Entenza claiming Tom Emmer will cut state government by 30%. See EmmerTruth entry here. Emmer actually said it is possible to cut 20% of the state budget over four years.
4. Matt Entenza claiming Minneapolis schools and the state of Tennesee received waivers from NCLB. No one has received a waiver from NCLB.
3. All of them claiming early enrollment in Medical Assistance will bring new federal money to Minnesota to help solve our deficit. According to Minnesota Management and Budget, early enrollment in MA will cost the state $430 million over three years.
2. Mark Dayton claiming he will save the state money by reducing the amount of outside professional and technical service contracts by half. Moving professional contracts to state employees will cost the state more money, not less. Unless of course Dayton is proposing to eliminate the work done by these outside contracts…don’t hold your breath.
1. Mark Dayton claiming he will solve the state’s budget deficit by raising taxes on the rich by $4 billion. Minnesota Public Radio’s Poligraph column called this plan “wishful thinking.”
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