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So, what exactly was his full role in axing Koch, and how purple is the axing?
Is Zygi smiling over this? Is Zygi frowning?
An interesting post, not anything I'd support, here.
If you read there what Zygi's surrogate has to say, Hahn appears to have been Zygi's Minnesota Senate boogeyman, and he did not get the leadership post.
My Guess is more the one than the other, based on the Senjem vote:
So much for the Zygi meter.
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NOTE: To make that second Zygi-frown image much, much, much bigger - hold a referendum, Senjem. For what it's worth, Janecek likes the Senjem choice. Probably it is the spelling of the name with two E's where it might easily be misspelled/mistyped.
Fight Wilfare.
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As previously noted, Janecek has a multi-part series posted on the GOP and money, and in particular gambling money, all worth reading, this being part 3 - dead in the middle:
To understand the money in gambling and who is spending what where, you need to have a basic understanding of the gambling interests. There are three.
One. The Minnesota Indian Gaming Association. Includes 9 of the 11 tribes in MN and the most profitable Indian casinos. Obviously, MIGA is rock solid against any expansion of gambling.
Two. Two tribes don’t belong to MIGA. One of these, the White Earth Tribal Nation, runs the not-so-profitable Jackpot Junction Casino in Mahnomen. White Earth wants to build a casino in downtown Minneapolis and help pay for a new Vikings stadium.
Three. The two private sector lobbying entities are Running Aces Harness Park and Canterbury Park. The two have unsuccessfully lobbied for slot machines for years. Canterbury’s big push is a big new Racino, a racetrack / casino combo. Canterbury is also offering to help pay for a new Vikings stadium with proceeds from the Racino.
Again, that link is here, and from there you can read the series. Zygi is convenient for the players wanting to expand gambling, and there are opposing forces, and the GOP will have to be walking the point, three ways, three points, in appeasing those who have gambling money to invest in politicians, where the GOP sits, currently, in debt. The Dayton-Mondale play seems to be, on behalf of Dayton, Mondale holding no office but what's been given, to let the GOP decide which brier patch it wants to throw itself into, await their action, and see how best to ride that tiger.
Rybak is pushing for downtown stadium consideration, which seems hand-in-glove with private downtown gaming growth - establishment and growth since none is there now - and he's a complication in things.
Do we want or need expanded gambling?
If so, the lottery seems to benefit the State, indirectly taxpayers, so why not embrace it's model for any expansion of gambling - which is separate from the question of whether there's too much already.
Don't you hate those obtrusive have-fun-and-adventure at the casino advertisements wedged in between the truck, auto, burger and beer ads, during televised sports? They offend. They are aimed at a lowest common denominator. As is too much of televised sports, have you gotten that message, Zygi. Upgrade the product on all levels, not simply on won-lost numbers.
What is "political correctness" when it reaches gambling money in politics?
Wait and see. You may be astounded. There's a new GOP team, the earlier band that purged Koch-Brodkorb having itself been ousted in the Tuesday voting subsequent to the ouster of Koch-Brodkorb. A tent full of elephants at cross purposes - will it be more a big mess to clean up vs. a stampede?