Moreover, Welti criticized his opponent in the last election for not finishing the business of the Minnesota legislature during the regular session. Ironically, it was during Welti's watch that the state government not only went into a contentious special session but also experienced a needless shutdown. Both the special session and the shutdown didn't keep Welti from taking time off to attend local parades, though. Rep. Welti's priorities are misplaced and apparently not the same as the priorities of the people he was elected to represent.
Welti and his liberal minions are in full desperation mode now that the freshman representative's inexperience, ineptitude and lack of effectiveness have been laid bare. Welti is but a placeholder for the DFL. The district does not benefit from him in any way. It's time for an adult to take his seat. Welti needs to grow up, get married, have children, have a mortgage and a real job before he even begins to understand what it means to be an adult taxpayer.
There was never any "cross-party potential" in the election of Andy Welti and Tina Liebling to the Minnesota House of Representatives as stated in last Friday's P-B editorial. And our newly elected representatives are hardly victims of a DFL vendetta against Governor Tim Pawlenty. The truth is, Welti and Liebling are part of the problem.
When Andy Welti came to my door before the election, he gave me what has become the disingenuous standard bipartisan-reach-across-the-aisle spiel DFLers have been taught to dump on unsuspecting voters. Welti was careful not to mention his party affiliation until I pressed him twice for it and he reluctantly mumbled that he was running as a DFLer.
Welti's voting record has proved to be anything but bipartisan, however. One would have to look hard to distinguish it from Matt Entenza's, one of the most rabid liberal partisans in the Minnesota House.
If Welti and Liebling felt the Rochester community was getting the short end of the stick because of the DFL's personal dislike for Governor Pawlenty, why didn't they speak out against the immature actions of their leadership? Why won't they "reach across the aisle" and join Republicans in pressing the DFL leadership to grow up and stop obstructing the economic and educational progress of the community they were elected to represent? Why haven't they stood up for the interests of the people who entrusted them with their vote?
They won't because they are not allowed. Andy and Tina know their place.
The cold truth is, Welti and Liebling are no more than placeholders for the DFL. Their party function is to neutralize Republican influence in southeastern Minnesota and St. Paul. They are ineffective by design, not by lack of experience. The Rochester flirtation with the DFL must end before it is too late.
Welti is a politician in the worst possible sense of the word: he is principally concerned about the growth and influence of his party (the DFL, though you'd never know it by talking to him or reading his campaign literature), not the welfare of his constituents.
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