The Free Press, Mankato, MN

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April 9, 2008

Your View — We need legislators to listen, know our needs

Patrick Ryan, Rapidan

Representative Cornish, listen to us.

This week, Cornish had an opportunity to vote for a bill that could create up to 10,000 new jobs statewide, provide a $50 increase in funding per student in K-12 education and protect the Health Care Access Fund from being raided.

He voted against this bill blaming a “liberal strategy” and “Twin Cities liberals” for this bill that is a “short term fix.”

While Cornish was voting against the creation of 10,000 Minnesotan jobs, the Washington Post published and article reporting that 80,000 jobs were cut in the month of March nationwide. Most of those jobs are in the manufacturing and construction business.

Representative Cornish, we need more good paying jobs. We need easier access to health care. We need a healthy learning environment for our children. And we need better roads and safer bridges.

What we don’t need is stubborn elected officials who brand sound and thoughtful legislation as “liberal.”

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