SF 2484 designated the left lane for passing. Compromise worked out to post signs in Greater Minnesota urging slower drivers to keep right. SF 2385 exempted public hospital employees from a state compensation limit. But House members quickly broke rank to successfully override four of the governor's vetoes. One restores funding for libraries in the towns of Pelican Rapids and St. James to offer more services to the newly arrived immigrant groups.
Many immigrants work in the towns' meat processing plants.
DFL Representative Greg Gray, who sponsored the legislation, says the residents should be rewarded for wanting to welcome a diverse population. I was encouraged in Pelican Rapids because the fear wasn't there. The restoration of arts funding was more dramatic. Overrides of the vetoes affecting the Lanesboro Center for the Arts and the Guthrie Theater Foundation were unsuccessful in the House Wednesday morning. When the subject resurfaced later in the day, freshman Republican Representative Chris Gerlach of Apple Valley cried foul.