For he also worked with his fellow and past legislative leaders to keep the conpiracy going that “this was a ten year program that was about to end”. If this was true all payments would have stop in 2009 and only a few plants would have received a payment in 2009 and not Claremont.

Yet after he and is fellow co-conspirators gave misleading remarks in January 2009 on “Your Legislators”, his Claremont plant received $803,439.25 by August 2009 even when he said, “I believe they are off the program”. Then in 2010 with un-allotment for the poor, cities and counties, his Claremont plant received a payment on August 10th 2010 for $1,021,462.42! Then the FY11 payment was moved up to August 19th 2010 for another $1,066,655.17 to his Claremont plant. Now if the legislature doesn’t end this wasteful program his Claremont plant will receive it’s last un-needed subsidy of $1,609,781.63 this year in August. For a total of about $30 million for Clarmont, just like the rest of these nine plants that feast out of the States “Golden Bowl” reserved only for the States Ethanol plants of privilege. Please review the State Data below and click on the ethanol tab for additional info on Senjem, that past legislative leaders and administrators failed to fully disclose to the taxpayers of Minnesota. I’m also asking my senator, former sheriff and now Senator, Bill Ingebrigtsen to move this at the Capital. So taxpayers finally get full disclosure and a open meeting so our new present Democratic Governor/Ag Commissioner and new Republican legislative leaders stop being lobbyist and represent the people and not special interest. For Ingebrigtsen and the ethics committee can still save the taxpayers from paying the last wastefull $15 million dollars in ethanol subsidies.  

Senjem also failed to look at the Legislative Audit report that clearly shows ethanol subsidies should end. Plus as minority leader, all the plants on the program were surely lobbying him, not just Claremont. See Legislative audit report: PDF

Ethanol Payments History and Projections by Plant through FY 2011

Ethanol Report 2010

Ethanol Financial Report 2008-2009 – See State report page # 6 for Investor Patronage Dividends and Subsidy totals for years 2009 & 2008 and see total report!

Ethanol Financial Report 2006 – 2007 – See State page # 9 – Patronage Dividends and Minnesota Produce Payments for years 2007 & 2006!

Ethanol Financial Report 2004-2005 – See State page # 9 of Report for 2005 & 2004 financial Info on subsidies and investor dividends!

The Governors office was and appears still is part of the ethanol subsidy conspiracy when you listen to new Ag Commission when he says we/Minnesota taxpayers still owe $15 million, yet he says, mission accomplished but does work to stop the subsidies. Click on MPR tape

Now listen to former speaker Steve Sviggum talk about the ten year program about to end years earlier and his leadership group of four.

Listen to former Speaker Sviggum in 2007 on AM 1280 ”Ethanol Subsidies” 3.5 minutes in on interesting view of legislative sides! More 10 year spin to temper the public and assure it’s almost phased out! -> Ethanol tape

As Steve Sviggum was telling Conservatives on 1280 and Alan Roebke the program was being phased out/ending the following was actually in the works in 2007 to do just the opposite. This bill below turned the program into: we will talk ten years but our ethanol friends will be paid in full reguardless of years. So pour on the Smoke, Mirrors and False Words Minnesota Leaders and the conspiracy will deliver for all conspiritors and it has. For the last $15 million is about to be delivered under the falses/longest 10 years scam in Minnesota Legislative history!
Agriculture/Veterans bill passes MN legislature

Written by: By Jonathan Eisenthal, special correspondent
05/03/2007

The omnibus agriculture and veterans affairs spending bill passed Tuesday in the Minnesota State Legislature. The package won with a unanimous vote in the state Senate and a vote of 130-to-1 in the state House of Representatives.

Chief authors Rep. Al Juhnke and Sen. Jim Vickerman hailed the bill as a bipartisan effort that resulted in a victory for everyone.

“Corn doesn’t know if it’s being grown in a Democrat or Republican district,” said Juhnke, a DFLer who has served six terms on the agriculture committee and this session served as its chairman for the first time. Vickerman heads the Senate agriculture committee, as well as the ag division of the Senate finance committee. Juhnke said, “We need to take a neutral non-partisan approach to agriculture, and we succeeded here. I think the farmers will find a lot to like in this bill.”

Among its key provisions: ethanol producers will again be offered a full 20 cents per gallon payment for the first ten years of a plant’s existence. For existing plants still receiving payments, these will be boosted immediately from the current 13 cents level up to 20 cents. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture will receive a 21 percent budget increase. The bill also broadens the renewable energy standard passed earlier this year, and extended it’s 25 percent by 2025 provision beyond electric power generation to all forms of energy, including liquid transportation fuels and gas-based heating fuels.

“Hi Alan,

CCH = Basic Support
CMS = Medical Support

When twelve (12) consecutive months of complete and timely payments of both current support debt and court-ordered pay backs of the child support debt or arrearage are made a request can be made to stop interest charging on the remaining child support debt and arrearage. Upon case review, if complete and timely payments are received, you should be able to make the request in May 2011.

There is a hierarchy in the system. The CCH obligation/interest would be paid before the CMS obligation/interest in any given month. The monthly accrual for the CCH obligation is paid first and if sufficient dollars are received the system would apply monies to the CMS obligation.

The interest on the CMS obligation appears greater because of the hierarchy. There have been more payments applied to the interest on the CCH obligation and interest. The payment history being forwarded shows the interest charged per obligation.

Interest rates are as follows: 2002/4%, 2003/6%, 2004/6%, 2005/6%, 2006/6%, 2007/7%, 2008/4%, 2009/4%, and 2010/4%.

I’m not understanding your last request regarding the Court bringing in income that should have been part of the Support but was overlooked.”

Look here for more info on Minnesota Legislative Policies that in reality, have started a debters prison for low income Minnesota males like Alan Roebke and thousands of others.

Minnesota’s Legislative Auditor said the state should consider ending its ethanol subsidy. But with the industry suffering a brutal downturn, key lawmakers say there’s no way that idea will pass. The subsidy provides about $15 million a year to ethanol plants in the state. Supporters say it’s needed to ensure ethanol’s long term success.

St. Paul, Minn. (AP) — A report by the legislative auditor saysThe program has paid 20 ethanol plants a total of $314 million since the subsidy began in the late 1980s. The money is widely credited with helping get the state’s ethanol industry started on firm financial footing.

John Yunker with the Legislative Auditor’s Office said the subsidy may have outlived its original goal. He told a legislative hearing this morning at the Capitol that in recent years, the ethanol industry has made substantial profits.

Food into fuel”We are recommending that the Legislature consider ending the producer payment program,” said Yunker. “If you look at the last five years the companies have made profits of $619 million while receiving $93 million in subsidies from the state.”

Yunker said with the state battling a budget deficit, it may be time to reconsider the ethanol subsidy. He said the state faces a substantial bill if it’s continued.

“The program will cost about $44 million over the next three fiscal years,” he said.

Yunker said since a plant can only get the subsidy for 10 years, several have dropped out of the program, leaving 11 ethanol facilities right now that still get the state money. For some state lawmakers, that’s still too much subsidy for too many plants.

“In this day and age it just doesn’t make sense,” said Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul.

Paymar said the last few years’ profits prove that ethanol plants can get along just fine without state money.

The Legislative Auditor’s report shows just how profitable the industry has been. In three years, 2005 to 2007, some ethanol companies made enough money to pay for their production plants.

Rep. Paymar introduced legislation this year to end the ethanol subsidy, but it failed in committee. He said he intends to bring it up again.

“I was told I didn’t have one vote on the Ag committee, both Democrats and Republicans, so I guess we will have an amendment on the house floor to take the producer payments out of the Ag bill,” said Paymar.

The state’s ethanol producers are certain to oppose that effort. Rick Mummert is general manager of the POET ethanol plant in the southern Minnesota town of Glenville.

“It’s a challenging time for the ethanol industry today, absolutely,” said Mummert.

Mummert said high corn prices and low ethanol prices mean at best a plant like his will break even. He said the subsidy is needed now to help ethanol plants through the tough times. Mummert said the state should keep its commitment to the subsidy which lawmakers increased in the late 1990′s.

“How do you renege on something ten years later?”, said Mummert.

That question came up in St. Paul when John Yunker of the Legislative Auditor’s office presented his findings. Yunker was asked if the state can retreat from its promise to pay the subsidy.

“I don’t believe that there is a contract,” said Yunker. “A legislature cannot bind a future legislature. I mean you I think are able, if you so choose, to end that program at anytime.”

There have been efforts to end the subsidy program in the past, but none came close to success. Legislators opposing the payments believe that could change this year as lawmakers scramble to save every penny they can.

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