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Marty: Ray, check your "red button"
Posted by: Mike Kaszuba under Funding, Gov. Mark Dayton, Minnesota legislature, Minnesota state senators Updated: February 11, 2011 - 11:33 AM
Not everything was hardball politics Thursday.
As passions mounted between Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislators over state budget cuts – leading to the new DFL governor’s first veto – there was plenty of political finger pointing, grandstanding and chest thumping.
But there was also this exchange – just as the Republican-led Minnesota Senate was voting to pass $901 million in state budget cuts and send them to Dayton.
“Ray, your ‘red button’ still works, doesn’t it? Better check it,” said Sen. John Marty, DFL-Roseville, just as Sen. Ray Vandeveer, R-Forest Lake, walked toward his seat to press his “green” button to vote for the cuts.
Pushing the “red button” – which Marty did – signaled a vote against the budget cuts.
Vandeveer simply smiled at Marty, who returned the smile.
Then Marty, one of the Legislature's most liberal members, called out to his Republican colleague: “You tried it? It’s broken? I thought so.”
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