1. Brian T. Biele: Brian firmly opposes the use of state tax dollars to subsidize professional sports teams.
Phyllis Kahn: Chief author of the bill to use $100,000,000 in state tax money to buy the Minnesota Twins from Carl Pohlad. (1997)
2. Brian T. Biele: Brian believes that we should work to increase voter turnout, especially among young adults 18 years and older!
Phyllis Kahn: Chief author of the bill to lower
the voting age to 12 years old. (1991)
3. Brian T. Biele: Brian strongly believes that Minnesota voters -- not the state legislature -- should elect our governor.
Phyllis Kahn: Chief author of the bill for a
parliamentary legislature that would have, if passed, eliminated a citizen's right to directly
elect our governor. (2000)
4. Brian T. Biele: Brian opposes setting a dangerous and irresponsible precedent by using state tax dollars for millionaire professional sports players' contracts.
Phyllis Kahn: Proposed settling Twins pitcher
Brad Radke's new contract by paying him $9,000,000 of state general tax dollars over
three years. (2000)
5. Brian T. Biele: Brian supports preserving the minimum wage for all employees and indexing it with inflation.
Phyllis Kahn: Authored an amendment to
selectively lower the minimum wage for tipped employees. ("tip credit," 8-19-1997)
