One Week in, What's Your Shutdown Message for Fridley Legislators?

What would you like to ask or say to your state representative and senator about the ?

The shutdown, which started July 1, has been going on for one week as of Friday.

There are the three members of the state House and two members of the state Senate who represent parts of Fridley. Every Fridley resident, business and property-owner has one state senator and one state representative.

STATE SENATORS
District 50 (includes all but northeastern Fridley; ): Sen. Barb Goodwin (DFL)
District 51 (includes northeastern Fridley; ): Sen. Pam Wolf (GOP)

STATE REPRESENTATIVES
District 50A (includes western and southern Fridley; ): Rep. Carolyn Laine (DFL)
District 50B (includes small part of eastern Fridley; ): Rep. Kate Knuth (DFL)
District 51B (includes northeastern Fridley; ): Rep. Tom Tillberry (DFL)

Have you contacted or heard from your legislators? You can find their contact information by clicking on their names above. What question or advice did or do you have for them? Leave a comment below.

. Laine called back on Wednesday but was traveling on an urgent family matter and couldn't talk then.

Here are the questions we posed Tuesday to Fridley's legislators via email (links added for this post):

1. What is your take on the ?
2. How have you been involved with the process over the last couple weeks?
3. What are you hearing about the shutdown and budget from constitutents?
4. What do you think of the ?

Goodwin was the first to answer the questions; see her responses here. As we get others, we'll add links to this post.