Shelley Madore

Madore had no problem voting for one of the largest tax increases in state history. Other than making up lies to justify her vote, there was also the supposed reasoning that there just wasn’t any room in the budget to pay for transportation needs without raising taxes.

If the budget really is so crammed with critical priority spending that raised taxes were necessary, how did Madore find room to spend $35 million on trivial non-critical items??

This session Madore has proposed the following:

• $10 Million for the Minnesota Zoological Garden
• $5 Million for the Minnesota Zoological Garden to plan on implementing their “master plan”
• $4 Million for a high-speed rail line between St. Paul and Chicago
• $10 Million to the city of Burnsville to build a Burnsville Performing Arts Center
• $6 Million to build a Met Council Transit Station

Now each of these projects may very well be worthwhile but in a year where we can’t even find money to pay for critical expenses such as transportation, is this the time to be paying for non-critical items?? Think about that next time you fill up on gas and pay those new taxes.

Defenders might point out that these items are being paid for via bonding. However, when the GOP offered to pay for roads with bonding, DFLers like Madore said it wasn’t fair to make our children pay for our spending. If our children shouldn’t help pay for long term critical infrastructure like roads, how is it that it is fair for them to pay for things like zoological gardens??

Madore You’re Letting Us Down….And Taxing Us To Death!!

On March 13th, Shelley Madore helped defeat a motion that would have prevented cities from willingly hiding illegal aliens. Cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul, have sanctuary policies that prevent police officers from asking about immigration status or enforcing immigration laws. This allows illegal aliens, including criminals, to enjoy the sanctuary of the city without the fear of deportation.

HF 3010 would have ended those sanctuary policies and allowed our police departments to protect us by enforcing the law. Instead, Madore voted against a motion that would have brought HF 3010 to a vote. In essence, she voted to allow for status quo of protecting illegal aliens. Rather than allowing police officers to do their job, Shelley would rather hamstring them with sanctuary laws.

Sanctuary policies allow a whole host of problems, including financial, legal and criminal. Problems such as high-crime, over-crowded schools/hospitals and taking jobs which could go to legal Minnesotans. The recent bus crash in Cottonwood demonstrates this isn’t just a Minneapolis/St. Paul problem, but affects ALL of Minnesota, including Apple Valley.

Shelley Madore would rather let us down by giving safe haven to illegal aliens whose very presence is a slap in the face to all law-abiding citizens.

Shelley Madore, You’re Letting Us Down…And Protecting Criminals!!

On March 3rd, House Minority Leader Marty Seifert proposed an amendment to deny aid to cities that prohibit their law enforcement officials from detecting illegal aliens or even inquiring about immigration status of people they come in contact with.  Shelley Madore voted AGAINST it.

Seldom a day goes by where another story isn’t heard of illegal aliens either killing/harming Americans or committing identity theft on a massive scale.  While all tragic, they are doubly so in that the perpetrator of the crime shouldn’t even have been here in the first place.  Instead of encouraging law enforcement to enforce our laws, Madore would rather they not even attempt to find out if a law has been broken.

What good are police if they are not allowed to enforce the law?

Madore would rather give your money to cities that harbor illegal aliens.   Last most of us checked harboring and abetting criminals was against the law, but Madore would rather cities hamstring police with laws preventing them from doing their job.

Just another example of Madore putting illegal aliens before the safety and security of her residents.

Madore, you’re letting us down….and endangering our lives.