| Yes, Gentle Readers, the GOP-Endorsed Candidate for Eden Prairie Mayor is a "Professor of Law" - it says so here (City website) and here (Wm. Mitchell website). Well, here, too: Duckstad's website, maintained by the local GOP.
One would expect one so learned as Professor Duckstad to have a basic grasp of basic economic concepts such as "expenditures greater than revenues = deficit spending."
This discussion comes about because of the recent (and, unfortunately, only) Candidate Forum hosted by the League of Women voters on September 28th. You can watch it yourself by linking here.
At approximately the 51:00 minute mark, the "question to Mr. Duckstad: How do you justify deficit spending in city government?"
Mr. Duckstad's response: |
"Well, I don't know what situation they're talking about, but I don't know that we're doing any defict spending here in Eden Prairie."
Jon Duckstad, 28 September 2010
ROFLMAO!!!
From the 17 November 2009 Budget Advisory Commission Memo to the Mayor and City Council Members (Duckstad is currently a Council Member,, so he presumably he got it):
The BAC recommends that the City plan to use less of the budget stabilization fund and bring the budget closer to balance (revenues equal to expenditures).
So, what did Professor Duckstad do on December 1st, 2009, after he presumably got that memo? Vote for a budget that was in the red by $976,084 (revenues = $35,918,229; expenditures = $36,894,313). Duckstad voted for deficit spending in FY2010, using that ol' GOPer trick of kicking the can down the road by raiding the cookie jar (the Budget Stabilization Fund).
And the projected trip to the cookie jar for FY2011's budget? $1,642,688!!!
Hey, spending a whopping $2,618,772 more than revenues over a 2 year period and claiming at a Candidate Forum that "I don't know that we're doing any defict spending here in Eden Prairie" just goes to demonstrate, once again, that ol' saying: "numbers don't lie, but Republicans use numbers."
Now, I'm being charitable by saying Professor Duckstad simply flunked Econ 101. I started paying real close attention to the GOPer-led City Council during the Phil "I know I signed under penalty of perjury, but it was only sloppy bookkeeping" Young almost getting tossed into The CrowBar Hotel saga (which, BTW, isn't over). I noticed it often seems Professor Duckstad simply isn't paying attention - as the previous link demonstrates.
Not to worry, though, if Professor Duckstad can't won't pay attention it's no problemo; the citizens can expect the local GOP Party "leadership" to tell Duckstad what to do! After all, it sure seems they tell Duckstad's fellow GOP-Endorsed candidate for council Donna Azarian what to say....
...which, of course, begs the question: how would Professor Duckstad grade a student's paper that exhibited such obvious plagiarism as GOPer-endorsed Donna Azarian's cut 'n paste to her 2010 (GOP maintained) website from GOPer-endorsed Phil Young's 2006 (GOP maintained) website?
Stay tuned! |
