(00:00:00) Arne Carlson is giving his State of the State message today the annual address and he's on the road today down in Rochester for the speech joining us now from Rochester to get the speech set up and get us all ready for it. Minnesota Public Radio state capitol reporter Mike Mulcahy and Carol Gunderson with reporter with Minnesota Public Radio Station K Zs e in Rochester Mike Carol. Thanks Gary. We are here in Rochester as you say in the sebens medical education building the Phillips Auditorium to be specific where Governor Arne Carlson and just a few minutes. We'll be delivering his fourth State of the State address. Carol Gunderson is here with me Carol. We expect the governor to talk about some familiar themes today. Really? Yes, indeed. We do. He will be talking about crime and violence and concerns in that area as well as the workers comp reform package that he would like to see change go through the legislature this session. This is pretty packed Auditorium. With lots of local business people from Rochester and independent Republicans. I think legislators number about 30 or 40 here in the sebens building today course. Typically these speeches are given in the house Chambers during a joint session of the legislator legislature. So all the legislators are there, but in this case it's sort of a hand-picked crowd and it just an invited audience about 300 300 to 350 people are in the auditorium. And apparently the governor's wearing red Mayor Chuck. Is that Lieutenant lieutenant governor? We're not quite as formal here as we are at the Capitol and Rochester Mayor Chuck hazama is introducing some of the dignitaries usually at the Capitol. There's an honor guard that that brings the people in the Constitutional offices the Supreme Court Justices. And in this case, it's just mayor hazama from the stage who has now just introduced Governor Carlson and so the governor is making his way up the aisle of the auditorium. And the crowd is on its feet applauding and we expect that the governor will be speaking in just a moment Rochester male pep band is playing the Minnesota Rouser which we can assume is one of the governor's favorite songs here now is Governor Arne Carlson and soon as the clapping and the Rouser dies down. I think this is a first the governor is actually leading the crowd in the Minnesota Rouser before the State of the State speech. Here's the (00:02:41) governor there. Absolutely marvelous. There's no better way to open up a meeting that a good rousing edition of the Minnesota Rouser. I let me if I may first to the good mayor and to the people of Rochester. I just want to thank you all very very much for an extraordinarily warm and very very hospital visit that we have had. This has been an exceptional trip and I deeply deeply thank you ever so much and to the speaker. to my constitutional officers to Governor Elmer L Andersen to members of the Supreme Court And two members of the Minnesota state legislature and to my friends. Nearly four years ago. I asked jonelle dear Stead. To be my running mate and serve as lieutenant governor. I feel extremely fortunate. I know that all minnesotans join me in expressing that gratitude that she chose to say. Yes. She has served our state and its people with a great deal of intelligence tenacity and concern for the issues that affect people. And it was with great regret that I accepted her decision to run for the United States Senate. But I respect that decision and wish her all the very best. I can honestly say that no Governor has ever been served with a finer lieutenant governor. Jonelle. Thank you. And dr. Walter I want to thank you so much. I can honestly say that as a child growing up. There was no institution that had more World Fame. Was comparable to the word excellence throughout the world than the Mayo Clinic and you have done us great honor by allowing us to share with you this afternoon the opportunity to give the State of the State speech. I thank you for your leadership. I thank you for your commitment. As you all know Rochester has been listed by Money Magazine as the best city. To live in the entire country. It's an extraordinary honor and we came here because the Rochester area represents so much of what is good and so much of what is changing in our state? Rochester is home not only to a vital computer industry. That has served this community with its vitality and with its Financial strength, but it's also the home of the world-renowned. And probably the best Healthcare System man has ever created the Mayo Clinic. Thank you ever so much for allowing us to be (00:06:05) here. (00:06:12) And to Mayor hazama I say thank you so much for your service. Your name has become synonymous with mayor and any mayor that has the kindness to send over a group of vocalists to sing to my wife when we're having dinner on our Valentine's Day and sing a love song deserves special mention. Thank you ever so much. This as you all know is an important day for all of Minnesota. It's a day when we are going to reflect on where we are where it is that we want to be as we approach the 21st century as I stand here today. I can say with more confidence that I have had since the 1970s that Minnesota is back on track. And we now have an unparalleled opportunity to forge ahead into a future that is certain to be brighter for ourselves as well as for our children. Two months ago. I had the pleasure of becoming a grandfather for the very first time. I honestly did not expect it to be quite such a moving and carrying experience and having a little granddaughter only reaffirmed what I've known for years and that is that our job is to do that which is right for the long-term and build a better Minnesota that we can leave to our children and to our grandchildren. We want it to be a Minnesota in which violent crime is no longer an ever-present threat where people know and care about one another and our streets in our schools are safe. We want it to be a place where minnesotans can find secure and promising jobs. And we want it to be a Minnesota in which our kids. And their kids and our grandchildren will know that if they are responsible caring honest and hardworking that they will achieve their dreams three years ago. When I delivered my first state of the state message, Minnesota was headed in the wrong direction our Administration inherited in the media 200 million dollar budget shortfall. And we faced a 1.8 billion dollar projected gap between spending and revenue today three years later. We are looking at a projected surplus of almost four hundred and thirty million dollars. We chose the tough road, but it was also the right Road first. We put the brakes on runaway spending during the 1980s the growth in state government, exceeded the growth in people's paychecks by some 15% since then we have Frozen the number of state employees. We have held the growth of government to the growth and personal income. We implemented a wage freeze and we cut welfare for able-bodied adults. None of these things were easy. But if we had not made the tough choices when we did we would have had to raise taxes and if we had chosen to solve the problem that we inherited with income tax increases minnesotans would have seen a permanent tax increase of 23% And this would come out to a family of four to a family of four earning $40,000 a year that new tax would be three hundred and forty dollars. That is what we prevented. And that is what everyone here can be proud of and I thank you for your (00:10:16) help. (00:10:27) Now in the process we quickly became the target of nearly every entrenched and Powerful spending system in Minnesota. And as we were being attacked by all the forces that resist change it was then that we knew we were doing something right. Thank you. Today Minnesota is back on track and we're charging ahead with Vigor. We can all take pride in the fact that Financial World magazine just ranked, Minnesota, the third-best financially manage state in America and we have regained the AAA Bond rating. We have set priorities. We put job creation improving the lives of children and fighting crime at the top of our list and the past three years. We have taken dramatic steps that will enhance Minnesota's quality of life for years to come. Together with the Minnesota Legislature. We implemented sweeping Health Care reform to bring down the cost of health care for all minnesotans without penalizing employers taking away competition or in any way jeopardizing the outstanding quality of our health care in this state. Minnesota is now looked upon as a national model for the delivery of healthcare. We have launched environmental policies that nationally are recognized including the most comprehensive Wetlands protection legislation in the United States and a far-reaching effort to clean up the Minnesota River. And the devastating floods of 1993. We all came together to help those affected. It was my pleasure to serve as chairman of the mid Western Governors Association, and I want to thank so much the president of the United States the vice president of the United States the governors who coalesced and met with the leadership on a bipartisan basis in both houses of Congress in order to do what in order to make sure that our farmers and our farm communities were adequately reimbursed from Washington and the result was impressive. We got back twice the amount of money that we started (00:12:59) out with (00:13:08) And I'm proud of our work on behalf of Minnesota's children despite. The state's severe financial crisis. We have directed substantially more resources to our children each year, and we are spending those dollars much more effectively on programs that work on early learning on education on Children's Health on youth apprenticeship on Parental education on Child Abuse Prevention on child support and enforcement and nutrition programs. And as I travel this state visiting with parents and their children, I realized how much more is left to be done. Today Minnesota has a nationally recognized education system that allows for school choice and charter schools. And we have talented Innovative Educators who help our students to achieve world class test scores are post-secondary institutions now have a clear sense of purpose and are changing to meet the workforce needs of the 21st century. We have kept our promises to those who create jobs by curbing the cost of doing business here with a specific focus on reforming workers compensation and reducing commercial and industrial property tax rates. We have helped Northwest Airlines through a critical period in its time maintaining the Twin Cities as one of the few major International Transportation gateways in the country and we preserved 17,000 jobs. That would have been directly affected by a closed down plus another 60,000 jobs that depend on the airline for survival. And yes, the legislature can take credit with a remarkable effort in this area. And I thank you (00:15:02) for it. (00:15:11) Minnesota is clearly back on the track, but one thing stands squarely in the face of our progress and that is violent crime. Unlike other crisis that we have faced such as floods and bitter cold snaps violins pulls us apart not together and it tugs at the very core values that have made this state great violence has caused us to change our lifestyles to trust each other a little less and to be afraid always for ourselves and our loved ones in 1992 and 1993. We took bold measures to stop violence in its tracks by passing the toughest and most comprehensive crime bill in Minnesota's history. We lengthen and many cases. We quadrupled prison sentences for a long list of violent crimes involving murder rape possession of guns in schools and drive-by shootings. We passed an anti-stalking law giving women and other victims of stalking the means to put their assailants in jail. We instituted a new truth in sentencing policy. That means that all convicted criminals serve all of their time 30 years means three decades under lock and key. Many of us can fondly recall our own childhoods in a rather simpler time when teachers cited that their biggest problem was disciplining students running through the hallways or chewing gum in class when neighbors relied on one another and kept an eye out for each other's child and when murders were something that happened in Far Away places. And it did not happen to our kids or to those kids who live down the street. How many of our veterans who risked their lives on foreign soil would have ever believed that the biggest threat to our safety would someday come from within our own communities? How many would have believed then that in 1994 a substantial percentage of minnesotans would be afraid to walk at night in their own neighborhoods. We can't go back, but we can pull together. We can adopt realistic short and long-term changes that will restore our trust and remove dangerous predators from the streets in Minneapolis Police Officer recently told me that he thought it was time that we do more than manage crime. It's time we started to fight crime if we are serious about fighting crime. We are going to have to make some changes first. We must stop the six percent of the people who are committing 70% of the crimes that means targeting our resources to the most dangerous people the people that we are afraid of I have asked the legislature for a three-time loser law that guarantees a 15-year mandatory minimum sentence for those who are convicted of a third violent crime. With this law in place, it's three times and you're off the streets and in prison for at least 15 years. We must aggressively deal with the sixty percent rise in juvenile crime since 1988. We must send a clear message that in Minnesota violent criminals young or old will be held accountable. We must not wipe clean the records of serious juvenile offenders when they reach the age of 18. And we must make absolutely certain that regardless of age cold calculated criminals are dealt with aggressively and they are dealt with as adults. And with as much sympathy and compassion. As they showed their victims. sixteen year old Jason Williams is just one example. He had come into contact with at least 10 police departments. And then he broke into a Brooklyn Park home just over a year ago. He spent the entire day there eating drinking and watching television until the owner arrived home with her two small children. Williams murdered her then killed one of the children. And left the other for dead. He then took her car took her cash as well as her wedding ring and picked up his friends to have an exciting night out on the town. Now the pain of this nightmare will always remain we can't change that. We can only offer our support and our prayers, but we can change a juvenile justice system that failed to stop Jason Williams earlier that failed to show him Swift certain consequences when he was arrested for theft and assault earlier. What scares all of us more than the crimes is the fact that these young Predators have a total lack of remorse and total lack of respect for existing laws? Now we must recognize that current law is not sufficiently effective in dealing with this Title Wave a brutal and violent youth. I intend to create structured summer camps and reinforce Community programs for those young people who are tottering on the edge those people that are at risk youth workers tell us that they can predict with an enormous degree of accuracy, which children are most likely to fall into a path of crime and we must Target our efforts. We must reach out and catch these children before they fall into a life of Street crime. I want to dismantle those ridiculous data privacy laws that prevent teachers prevent police and prevent social workers from sharing basic information about dangerous young people how hot it is. That a police officer is required to tell school officials. If a minor has been caught drinking beer. But that same officer is forbidden to let the school know if the kid has been accused of murder. We must we must give our teachers the assistance that they need in order to maintain order in the classroom. They need the authority to use reasonable Force to control violent young Renegades who systematically shatter the learning process for all it is crazy that we let some kids run the show for so long We can do all these things we can make all of these changes in 1994 and they will have a tremendous impact but prisons prosecutors and Punishment cannot stop the pipeline of children who are growing up angry afraid and increasingly violent. Violence is rooted in a fundamental breakdown of the family. Certainly. There are other factors that perpetuate violence such as drugs unemployment alcohol poverty. And certainly the media and the entertainment industry perpetuate violence with their own glorification of murder and criminal Behavior. But thousands of strong families have overcome those obstacles and demonstrated that a caring home can give children the kind of solid foundation that they need not just to endure all the risk factors, but to excel to thrive and succeed. It was my pleasure and I say that it was a pleasure. to be born into a family of parents who immigrated from Sweden and they were poor. I don't think my mother or father could rub 15 cents between them. But at all times they instilled in their children values values that focused on the American dream values of hard work discipline honesty. Those are the same values that we can instill in our generation of children if we decide to make it our cause And it's a delight for me today and I don't mean to interrupt this speech but I wasn't certain. My mother could be here. She is here and I want to acknowledge. Your mama. Where are you? (00:25:19) There? She is. (00:25:35) I think she more than anyone here today would agree that, Minnesota. Cannot become a state of victims where we always blame government or blame teachers or blame social workers or blame police or blame employers for what happens to us? We can take charge of our own destiny. We are responsible for our actions. And I do not want us to be afraid to talk about values. Values are not something that died with our pioneering history. Most of us believe very deeply in things like individual responsibility mutual respect hard work trust honesty. We believe in the inherent strength of families, and we want close-knit communities. We must take these values with us. They must be a part of our future the very best in our past was built by those people who had these values instill those values and generation and generation. We now have that opportunity to make absolutely certain that we get back on course with our young people and instill the exact same values in them. We know that government can reflect those values with a different approach to welfare. Last week, I proposed a comprehensive welfare reform that gives people who apply for welfare, whether they have lived in Minnesota 20 years or just 2 days. It gives them a job. Not a check. I have asked the legislature to reverse policies that now make Minnesota a magnet for people who choose not to work. Let's face the facts forty-two percent of those on welfare in Hennepin County. Moved to this state within the past year. We now in our state prisons have 600 convicts who have lived in Minnesota less than two years before being sentenced. minnesotans and our taxpayers are tired of importing trouble and dependency from other states. (00:28:32) It's time to close the gates. (00:28:52) We want to remove the barriers to those who want to work and the excuses for not working. We must get rid of all the backward incentives that now reward dependency and that reward unemployment and the reward children having children out of wedlock and that reward families who self-destruct then this new system this new approach is designed to help people stand proudly on their own two feet and we will provide them with their broad range of support so they can make it out everything from Transportation wrapping up the income tax credit child care food stamps, give them every single bit of assistance to be able to work themselves out of welfare and into a state of Independence. But after two years if anyone refuses to participate then I say we refuse to give (00:29:56) you help. (00:30:07) Government can support strong family values by holding both parents responsible for their children. We must explain the realities of parenting to all of our high school people so that they fully understand that having a child is a lifelong emotional and financial commitment. We must continue to tighten up child support enforcement to hold both parents responsible for the well-being of their children. We must require teenage mothers who apply for welfare to live with their parents and either work or go to school. And we must require parents to accompany their children when their children have an appearance in court. These are some of the Practical things that government can do to reflect the values of responsibility and strong families in Minnesota. Still all of the governmental policies in the world can't save us if we abandon the values of individual responsibility government is I've told said time and again cannot raise children being a good parent today is one of the toughest jobs that there is and to all Minnesota parents including the divorced mothers and fathers who managed to go to the Parent-Teacher conferences to coach the local soccer team and who take their children camping and to a variety of other activities to those of you who are there. And for those of you who care for your children, despite your own personal struggles. I say thank you and your kids desperately need you and Minnesota does too. Strong families are the real key to a more cohesive and they less violent future. But there also must be much more to our vision and stopping crime violence is a barrier and as we overcome that formidable barrier, we must commit ourselves to a plan that gives all of us reason to believe in tomorrow. That Vision must also be one of opportunity a vision of jobs everything. We have come to cherish hinges upon our ability to grow and keep jobs in Minnesota our schools. Our health care. Our state parks are roads and the integrity and safety of our communities all depend on our capacity to create employment opportunities. A decent job can give a family Independence that can give it stability and a reason to dream about its future. That is why jobs have been and continue to be the long-term focus of this Administration. When I talk about jobs, I'm talking about good jobs jobs that require knowledge requires skill jobs that are rewarding jobs that pay well and offer opportunities for promotion and advancement. I'm talking about intrapreneurs and small businesses because they offer the greatest potential for more and better jobs in, Minnesota. If we care about jobs, we must care deeply about education because employers today need skilled able and competent workers. For the first time in decades, we are setting our academic sites higher in Minnesota with the development of new graduation standards. These standards are being drafted over the next several months and I want to make them clear objective and easy to master. I want them to reflect basic academic skills such as math science Communications and geography abilities that our children need in order to compete in the world economy. If we care about jobs, we must understand the urgency of the changes that we need to make in order to bring down the cost of doing business in Minnesota. Minnesota workers are known for their hard work and for their High skills, so why is it that so many are constantly worried about being able to hold on to their jobs? The answer is simple. It costs more to do business here. In 1992 10 manufacturers collectively employing 900 people moved out of Minnesota. They moved to South Dakota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, North Dakota, Kansas, Missouri. Eight of those firms cited High workers compensation costs or burdensome taxes as the most significant factor in their overall decision to move. Now we have made changes since that time. But they are not enough. We must bring down workers compensation cost this (00:35:52) year. (00:36:10) We will put forth to the Minnesota state legislature a proposal that will result in lower costs higher efficiency and has proven to work in, Wisconsin. This proposal has had the support of both Labor and Industry in that state for years. I will ask each and every legislator to do that which they know is right and that is to vote for jobs and vote Yes on this proven reform plan. Now, let me say this whenever I hear the word Wisconsin something goes off into my mind I think back. how twice the Vikings beat the Packers How the gopher football team beat the Badgers and gave them their only defeat of the year? And how we whip them twice in basketball. And you know, they will succumb in hockey. I'm fearful that we can beat Wisconsin and every single thing we do we're even below them now in taxes. I want us to beat them in business costs as well and in job creation. And if we do that, I'm a little fear for the governor Thompson will probably erect all sorts of barriers to our entry into, Wisconsin. but if we care about jobs We must take a long-term pledge not to raise taxes not now and not for years to come government can and government must live within its means? in fact this year I want to phase out a burdensome sales tax on replacement Capital Equipment that penalizes manufacturers from expanding and creating new jobs in Minnesota. Computers and Equipment don't pay taxes, but people do and this tax is hurting a lot of hard-working people. These are critical steps that we must take to bring jobs to, Minnesota. But if we want to make more of these kinds of changes changes that are good for people and good for jobs changes that lead to less government and more opportunity for people to succeed then we also need term limits in, (00:39:12) Minnesota. (00:39:24) Now if I could see some solid bipartisan Applause for that line, I'd really love it. When a legislator sits in the house of the senate for a decade at a time he or she can easily lose touch with the broad-based concerns of people. And over time the entrench lawmaker accumulates far more power and influence than his newer colleagues. And he then grows more dependent upon powerful spending lobbies and special interest groups. Make no mistake about it. I am for term limits, but the legislature has repeatedly rejected attempts to let minnesotans vote on the issue. Members of the legislature we must let the people (00:40:14) decide. (00:40:29) Because we care about jobs. We have begun to make government less of a barrier and sometimes even a partner in job growth. We can bring technology and assistance to companies to help them increase productivity. We are creating One-Stop shopping to help businesses find their way more quickly through the Maze of government regulations. And we continue to promote Minnesota products and services around the globe. Today Minnesota has a lot to say to the world. When I visit with International leaders, I tell them that Minnesota is back on track and open for business 130,000 new Minnesota jobs have been created since 1991. We now ranked ninth in the nation in job growth we have so much on which to build Minnesota has a massive financial service industry a vital biotechnology Corridor and a growing list of environmental service companies a dynamic printing industry are booming medical alley A Renewed computer sector a solid agribusiness industry and a critical manufacturing base that is just starting to improve there is a new economic confidence in Minnesota that we have not seen in decades. Banner engineering is just one example. It's a Plymouth company that just announced it will open a new plant in Fergus Falls employing some 150 people for years ago when faced with the decision of where to locate that new plant the president and the founder of the company Bob Fay field chose, South Dakota. this year citing a turnaround in Minnesota's businesses business climate and a new pro-jobs attitude and state government. He selected rural Minnesota instead. Bob is here today, and I want to thank him for his confidence in US (00:42:52) Bob stand up. Where is it? There you go. (00:43:06) But he still says that there's more to be done and Bob I agree. The years just ahead hold out tremendous Potential from Minnesota. We have every reason to believe that the best is not behind us. But rather lies ahead of us. We will not get there by accident you and I we must have a clear agenda that will boldly take Minnesota into the 21st century on crime. We must pursue a strong prevention agenda, but when that fails we cannot hesitate to lock up dangerous predators, On health care, we must attack cost control while preserving quality and access and we have shown that we can do this in, Minnesota. In education, we must continue to pursue a seamless system from early learning through apprenticeship programs and Technical vocational education on welfare. We will give people work not checks and we must Embrace values of individual responsibility values of honesty values of respect values. If you will of hard work on jobs, we must create a warmer jobs climate one that welcomes good jobs and welcomes employers who create those good jobs and on taxes, we must live within our means and stop punishing success. Let me just say this if I may in closing. You and I have been on an exciting Journey. And frankly, it's been a rocky Journey starting with the difficulties of 1991 the awkwardness of a new Administration the pain of a 2 billion dollar deficit. But you know, we made the tough decisions then. And then we took that success and financial management. We focused it on the long-term basis for year budget projections on the operating side six year projections on the capital side. We then plowed into health care and gave America a national model. Not that it's perfect. Not that it won't be painful to implement but a model which if we start to develop it on a Cooperative basis will be the number one Health Care system in America. We did it in education in terms of creating opportunities for children maximizing their options so they can and they will succeed. We can do it in jobs and job development. We can do it by constraining our own spending appetite. So we don't Place ourselves in those awkward and painful situations where we raise taxes. The truth is simply put minnesotans like to win we want Minnesota to win. We want Minnesota to be the best date in the United States, but more than anything else. I pray that every one of us has the wisdom. And the courage to be able to say that tomorrow? We will make the right decisions not caring so much how those decisions look the day after tomorrow, but caring much more about how do those decisions look 20 years from now? So that I can visit my granddaughter. And you can visit your grandchildren and be able to say I was part of that process. I was part of that journey. I was a Pioneer in turning Minnesota around to a course of grand success, and the result is we left this state in far better shape than we found it that my friends is what a winning philosophy is all about. Thank you ever so (00:47:28) much. Thank you. (00:47:35) Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson winding up his State of the State address here at Phillips Auditorium in the sebens building on the Mayo Clinic campus. I'm Carol Gunderson in Rochester and the governor's receiving a warm Applause from a friendly crowd as you might imagine the first district being considered an independent Republican stronghold and Rochester specifically a strong area for the governor governor made many points as expected. He reviewed the successes of his previous three years and looked ahead to the legislative session his concerns about dealing with crime and legislation that he would like to see approve the three-time loser law. Also, he talked about the concerns about violence in the breakdown of the family and took a look at his welfare reform proposal and how that could perhaps help out families in the state of Minnesota. Governor. Also talked about the need to create more jobs. An annual theme and also the annual theme of workers comp being reformed in Minnesota to look more like the kind of program that they have in the state of Wisconsin governor also mentioned and no surprise that he is in favor of term limits looked for a little more support from a bipartisan crowd. He said and he talked about the need to not raise taxes this year Gary Michael K. Is searching out. I'm told Senator Roger Mo at the moment and hopefully we'll be able to get ahold of him for some reaction to this but people are Milling about down here and the band is warming up as well. Arne has done pretty well in Rochester you say he has he has done pretty well in Rochester. I think and of course the true test comes when the caucuses get together next month. I am told that Mike Mulcahy is down on the floor with the reaction at this point. Why don't we go to Mike? Okay. I'm here with senator. All the majority leader in the state senate. He talked about term limits. He talked about crime. He talked about workers comp. Where do you think the problems are going to be here in this agenda that he laid out? (00:49:48) Well, as you know, most State of the State messages are long on rhetoric and generally short on the on the details, but it was kind of an interesting here. You have a republican Governor Arne Carlson using Ross Perot's chart and Bill Clinton speech. It was kind of a unique experience, but I think that a number of the items that were spelled out welfare reform addressing the juvenile crime issue workers compensation. All of those issues are issues as as you know, that we've been talking about as well. So I'm hopeful that we'll be able to reach an agreement with the administration and have a good session are term limits and workers comp the two places where you parked art your agreement. Well, I don't first of all, I don't think that term limits is a partisan issue. I believe that there are both Democrats and Republicans that support that I think there are Democrats and Republicans that oppose it. I just somewhat it's somewhat ironic term limits coming from a person who spent more years in public life than Hogan's Goat but little bit ayran ironic but workers comp. I don't know. I guess there's the details have yet to be worked out but I think that we'll be able to reach some kind of agreement and hopefully anyway, I would generally say probably the it items that will get the most attention during the during the session. We're not even mentioned by the governor, which are very very island in the Target Center. (00:51:22) Okay, that's Senator Roger. Mow the majority leader of the state senate and we'll go back to you Carol. (00:51:29) That was (00:51:30) great and we will wrap it (00:51:32) up here at the sebens building on the Mayo Clinic campus in Rochester Governor Arne Carlson having given his State of the State address back to you Gary. Thank you Carol. And thank you Mike our reporters down in Rochester state capitol reporter Mike Mo K. He and Carol Gunderson who is with Minnesota Public Radio Station K Zs e in Rochester Gary eichten here. Thanks for tuning in.