Question 4:

The Governor of Minnesota will be asked to come up with solutions to a variety of issues that culminate in the tension between the need to protect the environment, and the need to sustain economic development. Solutions to conflicts that have arisen through issues such as the BWCA, timber resources, agriculture, including feedlots, and others will require making difficult choices and creating consensus. What are some of the tradeoffs you see in these rural and urban issues? In your rebuttal please respond to these two questions. Can you create consensus between these divergent Minnesota interests to work out some of these problems. If so, how would you create that consensus?

BORRELL Response to Question 4:

These issues are not a question of consensus. They are questions of the role of government acting as a referee between diverse groups of citizens. Elected representatives of the people are sent to the capitol to study complex issues and to "represent" our best interest.

They are "necessarily limited" by the constraints of our state constitution. Article XI Sec. 14 the constitution directs a portion of the earning from the lottery to be used "for the public purpose of protection, conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the state’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife and other natural resources." As you Minnesota governor I would protect our state environment.

Each issue mentioned in the question is unique and different with its impact on our economy and our environment, and should not be grouped together.

Governor Dick Borrell would support:

1. Cleaning up the Mississippi river, so the fish we catch in St Paul are safe to eat.
2. Protecting our environment. Clean lakes, streams, and wetlands, planting and saving trees, clean air and unpolluted soil.
3. Economic incentives for agri-businesses to comply with environmental recommendations.
4. Eliminating government programs that forced small producers off the farms and opened creation of large dairy and feedlots.
5. Examining all the chemicals (including salt) that our state dispenses onto our land. What effect does 250 tons of salt per year on our roadways have on water quality?
6. The timber and paper industries of Minnesota. Trees are a crop, just like corn.
7. The God given right of Man to exercise our dominion over nature.
8. Private property owners rights. (as guaranteed by our constitution)
9. Care and preservation of state owned land.
10. Justifying state ownership of all state owned idle land.
11. Outstate, urban and metro development. Let Minnesota and Minnesotans grow!

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