“ we thought these were focusing on him for governmental reasons,” Daudt stated.
Thissen said Daudt’s account “pretty much sums up a whole lot.’’
“We were looking to get a bill passed away to assist the indegent that are getting harmed by an system that is unfair and their very very first reaction is always to protect their rich donor,” Thissen stated.
Rixmann has provided to DFLers plus in 2013 offered more cash to Democrats than to Republicans.
Thissen said he grudgingly accepted the Republicans’ conditions. The bill next decided to go to the Senate, where it had been authorized on a near party-line vote. Just two DFLers voted against it — Sens. Terri Bonoff of Minnetonka and John Hoffman of Champlin. They each later received $1,000 in campaign contributions from Brad and Melanie Rixmann. Bonoff and Hoffman state their votes had nothing at all to do with the Rixmann efforts.
The bill returned to the House, “I had already made the commitment to what the end-of-session deal was going to look like with Tom Bakk, David Hann and Kurt Daudt,” Thissen said, referring to the other three caucus leaders by the time. Continuar leyendo «That exact same time she visited Payday America.»