Posted on 03/20/2013 7:31:04 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Minnesota taxpayers paid for trips to places like Bora Bora, Costa Rica and New Zealand and all of the trips were for artists. State records show the Minnesota Arts Board dished out 114 grants under the Artists' Initiative program between 2009 and 2013. The money went to artists who traveled to 40 countries and 20 different states. The program spent $5.6 million in that time with 15 percent of the trips overseas. The Arts Board tells 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the money is not from the voter-approved Legacy Fund. The Arts Board says it comes from the state's general fund because Legacy Fund money can only be spent on projects in Minnesota.
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what’s your medium?
mine is large.
Because the only way to stop this stuff from happening would be an armed revolt.
Ready for that?
Because there is so much junk added to each and every piece of legislation that nobody has a clue what is inside. Especially those actually voting on it.
All the scum care about is making sure their “lines” are included to they can give our money to whoever pays them the most.
Every once in a while, we get outrageous stories such as this but we only learn about maybe 0.0001% of the pork getting passed.
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