New Digs for Minnesota’s Ruling Class

In Minnesota last month, we had to pass the multi-billion-dollar tax increase bill to find out what was in it.

The latest revelation is a brand new state-of-the-art office building for the state Senate. 

For the last few years, we kept hearing how critical it was to spend state money to preserve Cass Gilbert’s famous 1905 State Capitol Building.  In the last few hours of the 2013 legislative session, Republicans cooperated and provided the supermajority needed to include $109 million for Capitol repair in a bonding bill.

Later that day, while no one was looking and minutes before midnight, the majority Democrats passed an authorization for a $90 million brand-new building to house Senators currently in the Capitol.  Once again the ruling class takes care of itself first.