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SD42 REPUBLICANS ENDORSE KIRK STENSRUD
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HOT TOPICS

HOW DEEP A HOLE? -- How high would taxes need to go to pay off this year's $1.5 trillion deficit?  According to the Tax Foundation, one option is to raise the top three tax brackets to 100% -- and this STILL wouldn't be enough.

POSSIBLY THE BEST TEA PARTY SPEECH EVER-- Some people were born to speak. This woman is one of them.

• MONEY MAGAZINE: EDEN PRAIRIE IS NUMBER ONE -- Four years ago Democrats warned that a Republican majority on the Eden Prairie Council would lead to Eden Prairie's destruction. Just ask Money Magazine: “At 5.1 percent, its unemployment rate is nearly one percentage point below the county rate and more than four points below the national average. It helps when you’ve got 50,000 jobs right in town.” Congratulations Mayor Phil Young and Councilmembers Jon Duckstad and Brad Aho on a job well done!

Welcome to “Recovery Summer”
• Hot Air:Mortgage applications hit 13-year low, foreclosures spiking
• Yahoo Finance:
Retail sales drop 0.5% in June
• CBS:
Poll: Support for health care reform drops
• Fox News:
Mass foreclosures this year expected to eclipse '09 levels
• Wall Street Journal:
About that financial reform victory
• CNBC:
Consumer sentiment sinks to lowest level in 11 months
• Yahoo:
Manufacturing cools in June as recovery slows
• CNN:
Poof! Week's stock gains erased

• BUT WAIT -- There is hope! --
Obama's stimulus is a boom . . . for sign makers

PAWLENTY: TIME FOR OBAMA TO MAKE SACRIFICES -- “Washington under President Barack Obama is not just broken -- it's broke. When Obama entered office, he inherited a budget deficit that reflected the toxic combination of recession, bailouts and runaway entitlement programs. But rather than getting the government's finances under control, Obama and his allies in Congress poured gasoline on the fire with trillion-dollar boondoggles.”

• “THIS DEBT IS CANCER” -- From the Washington Post: “Obama's debt commission warns of fiscal cancer. The commission leaders said that, at present, federal revenues are fully consumed by just three programs: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.” Everything else is going on the credit card. Sorry kids!

• 50 DEAD-SIMPLE WAYS FOR THE U.S. TO CUT ITS BUDGET -- Some of these are pretty funny until you realize that it's your money they are wasting.

• THE EDUCATION DEBACLE OF THE DECADE -- Why would politicians end a program that is helping kids learn?


Emmer greets visitors at the Chanhassen 4th of July parade
• CUTTING STATE GOVERNMENT ISN'T THE ISSUE -- Tom Emmer: “If bigger government and higher taxes and more regulation were the answer, then Greece should be leading the world and California should be the number one state. The debate is over. There is no debate any longer because big government doesn’t work”.

• ILLINOIS STOPS PAYING ITS BILLS -- Obama's home state is now facing financial ruin. With a Democrat governor and a Democrat legislature, the state can no longer pay for basic services.

• LOWER TAXES, CREATE JOBS -- It shouldn't surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine states with the highest income tax rates.

• LOWER TAXES, CREATE JOBS -- It shouldn't surprise anyone that the nine states without an income tax are growing far faster and attracting more people than are the nine states with the highest income tax rates.

• POLICIES MATTER -- According to the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council, Minnesota now ranks #49 out of 50 states for business climate.

Business Tax Rankings 2010
1 South Dakota 46 Maine
27 North Dakota 47 New York
29 Michigan 48 California
33 Wisconsin 49 Minnesota
45 Iowa 50 New Jersey
Source: Small Business and Entrepreneurship Council
Aug 3 (Tuesday)
   National Night Out
Aug 5-9
   Carver County Fair
   Waconia
Aug 6-8
   Uptown Art Fair
   Minneapolis
Aug 6-8
   Irish Fair
   Saint Paul
Aug 7 (Saturday)
   EP Lions Corn Feed
Aug 14
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Primary Election Polls open until 8:00 PM. To find out where you vote, click here.
Aug 17 (Tuesday)
   Filing deadline for
   Municipal Elections
Aug 21 - Oct 3
   MN Renaissance Festival
   Shakopee
Aug 26 - Sept 6
   MN State Fair
Sept 6 (Monday)
   Labor Day
Sep 11 (Saturday)
   9/11 Rememberance
Sept 12 (Sunday)
   Sunbonnet Day
   Eden Prairie
Sept 18 (Saturday)
   Rosh Hashanah
Sept 27 (Monday)
   Yom Kippur
Oct 5 (Tuesday)
   MLB Playoffs Begin
Oct 11 (Monday)
   Columbus Day
Oct 27 (Wednesday)
   MLB World Series Begins
Oct 31 (Sunday)
   Halloween
Nov 2
(Tuesday)
General Election Polls open until 8:00 PM. To find out where you vote, click here.

Jan 1, 2011 (Saturday)
New Year's Day
Bush Tax Cuts Expire

Jan 4 (Tuesday)
MN Legislative Session begins

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MLK Day

Feb 6 (Sunday)
Ronald Reagan's Birthday

Feb 14 (Monday)
Valentine's Day

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President's Day

March 21 (Monday)
One-year anniversary of
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