Contact Information: 331 State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155. Phone: (651) 296-7806. E-mail: rep.joyce.peppin@house.mn.

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2006 MCA Candidate Survey Results: Candidate did not respond to survey.

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Contact Information: 315 State Office Building, 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Saint Paul, Minnesota 55155. Phone: (651) 296-5502. E-mail: rep.kurt.zellers@house.mn.

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Contact Information: 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., State Office Building, Room 141, St. Paul, MN 55155-1206. Phone: 651.296.2159.

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Additional Notes from MCA: May 2004: In the Senate Tax Committee, Sen. Limmer voted against SF401, the Outdoor and Cultural Heritage Amendment, an ANTI-ARTS VOTE. (The bill passed out of the Tax Committee, but was never passed from the full Legislature. Had it passed it would have gone to the November ballot and asked voters to dedicate a portion of the sales tax to arts, culture and outdoors programs. It would have doubled state arts funding.)

May 2000: Sen. Limmer voted not to override the Governor’s veto of $1 million in bonding money for the Lanesboro Center for the Arts, and $3 million in planning money for the Guthrie Theatre. The override was successful. This was a bad arts vote.

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April, 2006 : In a statement made regarding the Senate passage of the proposed consitutional amendment on conservation, clean water, public broadcasting and the arts, Governor Pawlenty displayed his neglect of the value of the arts: “While I appreciate the Senate’s willingness to vote on this important issue, I hope the bill will be more focused in its final version. Conservation and clean water are too important to be watered down by other issues. While the arts and public broadcasting are important, they do not rise to the level of being in need of dedicated constitutional support.”

May, 2005: Governor Pawlenty vetoed a measure to create an official poet laureate in Minnesota, remarking: “Even though we have a state ‘folklorist’, I have concern that this will lead to calls for other similar positions. We could also see requests for a state mime, interpretive dancer, or potter…”. Minnesota would have joined its neighboring states North and South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin in having an official poet laureate if Pawlenty had not vetoed the bill.