REBUTTAL - Marty

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Answer to E-democracy
from Minnesotans for Marty

This is just one more example of Arne Carlson's short-sighted management
style.  He seems incapable of either getting history right or the future in
focus.  First off, there never was a deficit.  State law prohibits
deficits.  There was a shortfall at the beginning of Carlson's tenure, but
it was about half of what Carlson now claims it to be.  I and my fellow
legislators took a hard look at the budget and balanced it.  Arne Carlson
has no right to claim any credit for balancing the budget.

All Carlson can do is go from emergency to emergency: that is his
management style.  Reacting to emergencies is the only thing that gets him
up and out of the Governor's mansion.  When Northwest Airlines or his poor
millionaire Target Center owner friends come crying, Carlson is all action;
when it is the future for Minnesota children, he vetoes.  He can only think
of temporary, short term, quick fix solutions to the state's problems.  We
cannot freeze wages forever, we cannot starve education any longer or we
will start feeling the disastrous effects of Carlson's mismanagement.  The
problem is that Carlson has no vision of where the state is going.

If we keep going the way we are now going under Carlson we would only be
ignoring our problems.  That is what Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles and other big cities did ten, fifteen, and twenty years ago and
they are now reaping the harvest: crumbling infrastructure, declining tax
base, disappearing economic opportunities, racial and class stratification,
skyrocketing crime.  We need to attack our problems now-not ignore them and
hope they will go away like Carlson does.

Its not that Carlson does not know this. in 1990 he held press conferences
and put out position papers saying that "Prevention Will be a Cornerstone
of the Carlson Administration." He lauded, pledged support, and full
funding for many of the programs I am committed to-but it was just talk.
Since then, he has sold out Minnesota's children to the immediate selfish
interests of his big money contributors,

I am the Candidate who has a proactive vision for the state, a vision that
will address the long-term budget needs of the state.  Like any wise
business, we need to invest in our future.  Crime, health care, education,
and the economy.  We will be saddled with the run-away costs if we continue
Carlson's short-sighted, reactive pseudo-solutions.  Arne Carlson is
letting us drift down the same polluted river so many other big cities
have.

Because of Carlson's mismanagement, we will pay dearly in the future if we
do not change direction now.  Minnesota needs a new governor;
Minnesota needs John Marty.

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