Thank You to all the People Who Helped Out at the W. St. Paul Days Parade

The turn out for the parade was greater than I ever expected. Thirty one people showed up to help out with my campaign. I want to thank Ray and Nick J., Adam J. and his friends Oscar, Luis, Sara and Dawit, Kyle S. who drove the Mustang convertible. Mark S. who drove the 75 Ford XL convertible. Ann and Vanessa J. Tony S. Joe T. Collin who played his drum and dressed up like the patriot that he is. Joey who just appeared on the street out of nowhere. Pat B. and her two boys, Leon and Dimitri J. Lonny L. Jeff W. Greg O. Alexa and her friend Derrik. Dave and Kimberly. Jake and Lorrie, Paul I. and his baby boy John Paul, Gilbert, and Mary H. These pictures were taken before everyone showed up, so I apologize if you are not shown. I also apologize if I forgot to mention anyone. If I did, let me know and I will include you. More pics to come in the future.

Join Bill Jungbauer in the West Saint Paul Days Parade!

Time: 12:00pm sharp! (line up) parade begins at 1pm
When: Saturday, May 17th
Where: Parade will begin at the intersection of S. Robert St. and Emerson Ave, by the Perkins restaurant.

Walk in the parade,
carry signs,
throw candy to kids,
and to stick stickers on people!

Bring your friends and family, the more the merrier!


Please wear red, white, or blue.

People for Bill Jungbauer will be 70th in the parade. I do not know where our line up spot will be but I will scope it out early. Call me at 651-308-6442 on my cell if you have any problems finding me. I will have someone on the corner of Robert and Emerson to direct you as well.

Representative Hansen and the DFL Voted Against Our Senior Citizens!

• They voted for a "snow-bird tax" on people who earned money in Minnesota in the middle of the year and go somewhere warmer at the end of the year.
• They voted to keep the "Granny Tax" on many seniors in nursing homes.
• They broke their 2006 promises and watched property taxes grow even higher.
• They almost doubled the "mutual fund tax" that hits many seniors most heavily.
• They continued the "sick tax" on every visit to a doctor, hospital, clinic, or pharmacy.
• They voted to create a "gift tax" that would fall most heavily on seniors.
• They voted to minimize new funding for nursing home workers, while boosting welfare spending by budget-busting rates.

Representative Hansen and the DFL Broke Their Major Promises From 2006 When They Voted in 2007

• There was no property tax relief. In fact, property taxes went up with the DFL in control.
• There was only the smallest amount of funding for "all-day kindergarten" in some areas, when they had promised "ALL-DAY K STATE-WIDE" in 2006.
• There was almost no expansion of government health insurance to "Cover All Kids" because the House DFL preferred to expand eligibility and benefits for welfare by 18% in the next two years and 35% in the following two years.
• They did not repeal the "Granny Tax" on seniors in nursing homes who paid for their own care with private insurance or personal assets. In fact, they voted to kill that promise.
• They lied about boosting state aid for public schools, giving schools a 3% increase over two years while raising the Legislative budget by 17.8% and the welfare budget by 18% in the next two years and 35% in the following two years.

The 2007 House DFL Were Bad and Self Serving Managers for Our State

Starting today I will be writing informative posts on the destructive mentality of the democrats in the House and how they, and in particular, my opponent Rick Hansen, have been involved in an ever expanding state government bent on taxing and spending as well as infringing upon our civil liberties through a slow but continual erosion of our freedoms. How's that for a run-on sentence! Listed below is just a few things that the democrats and Representative Rick Hansen pulled in 2007.

• They raised the Legislative Budget by 17.8% while raising state funding of K-12 education by only 3% over the next two years (2% in 2008, 1% in 2009).
• They raised their "per diem" payments by 16.6% without taking a Floor vote. The average House DFLer added over $10,000 to a $31,000 salary, and blocked efforts to require them to show receipts for these "daily expenses" which are taxed like salary.
• One DFL Senator took over $22,000 in "per diem" even though she lives less than three miles from the Capitol. She claimed "daily expense" payments for 229 days, even though the Legislature was only in session for 76 days in 2007. One DFL House member took $18,234 without receipts.
• They also added year-round housing payments of up to another $14,400 for Representatives who live at least 50 miles from the Capitol, even though Legislative sessions in even numbered years last less than four months.
• They doubled the budget for House Committees to nearly $700,000. They increased the number of committees from 27 standing committees under the House Republicans in 2006 to 101 committees, subcommittees, divisions, task forces, working groups, and other panels under the DFL in 2007.

From the Taxpayer's League of Minnesota

A tax increase for 69% of Minnesota homeowners.

The DFLs property tax proposal seems to confuse even its own authors"House DFLers yesterday introduced this year's version of the Omnibus Tax bill and with it their attempt at property tax reform. Among the highlights of their Tax bill is an overhaul of the state's property tax relief programs that they claim would make 95% of Minnesotans eligible for some form of property tax relief.

"The intent of the legislation, introduced by Representatives Ann Lenczewski [DFL-Bloomington] and Paul Marquardt [DFL-Dillworth], is to tie Minnesotans' property tax payments directly to their income. Trumpeted as a simplification of the current system and a way to force wealthy Minnesotans to pay their fair share, under the new system any family earning more than $200,000 a year – the DFLs definition of "rich" – would see a tax increase.

"But according to calculations made by the Department of Revenue and released today during a committee hearing, when the new property tax system is fully phased-in, nearly 69% of Minnesota homeowners will see a tax increase."

To read the rest, click here.

A Democrat I Can Agree With!

Here is a video I just bumped into of one fiery democrat I can agree with. This is Rep. Marci Kaptur D-Ohio. She has got the facts on NAFTA and the North American Union. We are losing a Ford plant in St. Paul yet the Ford company is going to spend over nine billion dollars on factories in Mexico. The end result is cheap labor for Ford at the expense of Minesota's middle class. Watch this video and pay attention! This is alarming!

Support the Teamsters

The truck drivers at Johnson Brothers Liquor have been on strike since March 17th, 2008. A friend of mine works there and tells me that their contract with the company ended and they are asked to accept a contract of lesser value. Less pay and less vacation. They are picketing around the clock, seven days a week. My wife and I drove by about midnight last night and they were out in force.

I used to be a Teamster about thirty years ago. I drove a taxi. It was a short stint that lasted one summer but it was a great experience.

One great thing I admire about the Teamster's of today is that they are the only union to object to 100 Mexican trucks being driven on our national highways today. These trucks are on our roads without the safety inspections we require of American truckers and they are not compensated as well for their labor. Thus undermining the wages of the middle class.

The union truckers of Johnson Brothers Liquor ask us to not purchase the following products.

LIQUOR

All Phillips brand products, Karkov Vodka and Gin


WINE

Bella Sera, Peter Vella, Twin Valley

Rancho Sera, Sonoma Gallo, Cooks

Dancing Bull, Livingston Cellar, Copper Ridge

Carlo Rossi, Redwood Creek, Black Swan

Ecco Domani, Trinity Oaks, Boones Farm

Bartles and Jaymes, Fairbanks, Andre

Ballatore, Barefoot, Sutter Home

Arbor Mist, Black Box, Alice White

MCCAIN VS. OBAMA ON GAS TAXES

John McCain proposes eliminating the federal gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day. I am sure Ron Paul would be in favor of doing away with it entirely! Michele Bachman spoke at the tax rally about how we have in this nation less than half the refineries that we had in the seventies. I sold valves and refinery equipment when I lived in Houston in '91. All the obsolete equipment was being rebuilt and used in Mexican refineries where the environmental requirements were not as strict. Our federal legislators should really lighten up on domestic drilling. Anwar alone is not the answer. Robust, aggressive offshore exploration is the answer to ease prices at the pump. That and ending the ethanol requirements. Mexico discovered billions of barrels in the gulf of Mexico last year. It will take several years to get it out of the ground. Mexican oil companies are owned by the Mexican government unlike ours. I recently heard an expert on a radio show say that if we do not start drilling in the gulf off the shores of Florida in the near future, Cuba will see no reason not to let the Chinese have at it. It was also mentioned that they do not have the safety record that we do.

Here is a video with McCain and Obama being quoted on the federal gas tax.

GINA: This Too Shall Pass

From the Family Research Council, Tony Perkins' Washington Update:

A lot has changed in Congress since 1995, but the debate over genetic anti-discrimination laws has not. Yesterday, the Senate did its part to put the issue to rest after a long, 13-year journey. The bill has weathered two presidencies and at least four congressional majorities. Despite its history, the Senate made the bill's passage look easy, voting 95-0 in its favor. If the House follows suit, as we expect it will, insurance companies and employers will no longer be able to refuse coverage or raise premiums on individuals or families based on the results of genetic tests. This is especially important as disease detection and prevention technology improves. Although doctors can clinically screen for more than 1,200 diseases, patients have been wary of taking the tests out of fear that it would jeopardize their health insurance. GINA would ensure that Americans can take advantage of this technology without backlash from their coverage providers. During my time in the Louisiana state legislature, I first became aware of this issue. I was informed that insurance companies, using genetic information, were dropping customers after learning that a woman was pregnant with a baby that had Down's syndrome or was otherwise disabled. Unfortunately, this type of discrimination was forcing more mothers to abort because they couldn't shoulder costs of their children's special needs without help from their insurance provider. As a result, I authored and passed one of the first measures of this kind in 1997. Until recently, the federal measure didn't include the protections for unborn or adopted children who test positive for genetic deficiencies. With the support of our friends on the Hill, FRC's Government Affairs team led the effort to make this pro-family clarification part of the final bill. We look forward to similar equity in the House version, which is due for a vote in the next few weeks.