Here’s another fun blooper from Minnesota state Rep. Tom Emmer, the presumptive Republican nominee for governor.
Late last week, Emmer called for a state G.I. bill. “I don’t know if you remember, a few years ago the governor had proposed [a Minnesota G.I. bill],” Emmer told an audience of veterans. “And I think that’s something we should certainly be looking at and it’s unfortunate we haven’t done something like that already.”
Unfortunately, as the Star Tribune reports, that proposal from 2007 did pass. And not only that, but it was passed as part of a larger higher-education appropriations bill — which Emmer voted against. Emmer’s spokesman attributed the error to “bad staff work,” and also explained that Emmer voted against the appropriations bill because it underfunded the G.I. bill programs and overfunded other programs.
Eric Kleefeld
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