Former Republican Governor Arne Carlson will address the House DFL Caucus this weekend at the invitation of Speaker Margaret Anderson Kelliher. This Fall Carlson endorsed Barack Obama for president. This year's crop of House Dems will discuss how to begin dealing with a more than $5 billion dollar shortfall.
Speaking of solutions, the governor's Budget Commissioner Tom Hanson had an interesting exchange in Ways and Means today with Majority Leader Tony Sertich. The newly spectacled Sertich asked about Gov. Pawlenty mentioning "non-tax revenues" and wanted clarification of what exactly are non-tax revenues? This one seemed to stump Hanson as he took 21 seconds to come up with an answer that they'd "share" that information in coming weeks, but looking back to other deficits you'd see "similar similarities."
Can you say fee increases? That's the "similar similarities" I can think up.
Check it out at 1:45:00 into the clip.