A Reagan day -- and beltway?

MPLS Star & Sickle ^ | 2-4-5 | dane smith

[Rakkasan1]

Minnesota Republicans finally won one for the Gipper on Thursday, passing resolutions in the House and Senate declaring this Sunday (his birthday) as Ronald Reagan Day, and then upping the ante with a proposal to designate the Twin Cities Interstate 494/694 loop the "Ronald Reagan Beltway."

Minnesota is the only state never to have voted for Reagan, and recent proposals in the aftermath of his death last June to rename the State Office Building and the Olson Memorial Highway (Hwy. 55) for Reagan have been panned by DFLers. (Floyd B. Olson was a radically liberal Farmer-Labor governor in the 1930s.)

Reagan "delivered more freedom to the United States than we have ever known," and Minnesota is behind other states in memorializing him, said Sen. Michelle Bachmann, R-Stillwater, the author of the resolution and also a chief proponent of the Beltway designation.

DFL legislative leaders were cool to the latest memorializing idea,

[Rakkasan1]

...Led by Sen. Dick Cohen, DFL-St. Paul, the Senate inserted this language after the economic expansion phrase: "... not paralleled until the Clinton presidency." And the Senate DFLers inserted this phrase in a subtle jab at the Bush administration: "... the successes of the Ronald Reagan presidency stand as a lesson to the current administration in the areas of bipartisanship, economic recovery and the need for world support in foreign initiatives."

the crybaby morons in the DFL also had to add that 'Minnesota was the only state that didn't vote for Reagan'. As if being blue state bitches is something to be proud of.

[JimHorn]

This from that state that still thinks Walter Mondale and Paul Wellstone were 'powerful national figures'.