{"id":655,"date":"2013-11-27T19:58:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T00:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2013-12-10T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T18:14:12","slug":"rebecca-otto-puts-minnesota-tax-payers-first-and-outrages-the-mining-at-any-cost-legions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/rebecca-otto-puts-minnesota-tax-payers-first-and-outrages-the-mining-at-any-cost-legions\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebecca Otto puts Minnesota Tax Payers first and outrages the mining-at-any-cost legions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Maybe Babbitt’s Welcome Sign should read as above.<\/p><\/div>\n

This picture of the Babbitt Welcome sign area epitomizes the incorrigible nature of the “Mine, Log, and Lease the Hell Out of These Lands” crowd. They can not tolerate one dissenting vote without shouting “Dump Otto” from all the bully pulpits of Northeastern Minnesota. \u00a0The statements made by the mayor of Babbitt at the Tuesday Group meeting in Ely where State Auditor Rebecca Otto spoke (11-26-2013) clearly show the good mayor still does not understand the difference between iron mining and sulfide mining. \u00a0Anyone who is still locked in the “Jobs, Jobs, Jobs” mindset and is not asking the hard questions, as Rebecca Otto is doing, is only looking at benefits and ignoring the risks of sulfide mining. As auditor of the state of Minnesota, Otto is tasked with evaluating the costs and risks to the taxpayers of Minnesota. \u00a0And, from the response of the overflowing crowd at Ely Tuesday Group, she is doing what she should be doing, doing it well, and we are thankful she is willing to shoulder the burdens of these hard questions. Most politicians in Minnesota are acting as if the numerous severe risks and potential costs to taxpayers are trivial. Otto is the first Minnesota state official to stand up and say we should have a long hard look at the cost to Minnesota taxpayers with non-ferrous (sulfide) mining.<\/p>\n

Click here to see the complete video of Rebecca Otto’s talk in Ely.<\/a><\/p>\n

For any conscientious individual, maybe one with a bit of critical thinking ability, Rebecca Otto’s stance is the ONLY logical and practical stance for a person with her responsibility and for the well being of Minnesota. \u00a0The extreme mining reactionaries are so far from any truth on this matter they should be ashamed of themselves. \u00a0However, shame is not an emotion they know and truth about mining is not something they even want to think about. \u00a0I’ve only found them boldly confident in their “MINE THE HELL OUT OF THESE LANDS” \u00a0position. \u00a0The above sign should read…KEEP OTTO –DUMP POLYMET!!!<\/p>\n

We \u00a0proudly support Rebecca Otto and have Otto bumper stickers, remittance envelopes for contributions, and literature.\u00a0 If after viewing her position in the video link above and you would like to support her also, please go to this page to contact her or support her as a volunteer or with an online donation http:\/\/www.rebeccaotto.com\/contact.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Maybe Babbitt’s Welcome Sign should read as above.<\/p>\n

This picture of the Babbitt Welcome sign area epitomizes the incorrigible nature of the “Mine, Log, and Lease the Hell Out of These Lands” crowd. They can not tolerate one dissenting vote without shouting “Dump Otto” from all the bully pulpits of Northeastern Minnesota. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,98,104,103,54,70],"tags":[181,188,189,254,190,249],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":660,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyminnesota.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}