GUEST VIEW: Minnesota’s legacy of shame

In my view, Minnesota’s Gov. Tim Pawlenty and all those Minnesota legislators who have succumbed to some voters’ basest desires to avoid taxes should fall to their knees and apologize to their parents and grandparents for ruining the Minnesota those parents and grandparents worked so hard to build — fine schools, beautiful parks, great public hospitals, court systems that dispensed prompt due process, prisons large enough to hold offenders, roads that didn’t rattle you, bridges that didn’t collapse and all the rest.