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Article: Wray's cabin owners raising legislative hackles.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2000
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Several hundred owners of "seasonal recreational property" - Minnesota's beloved lakeside cabins - will assemble at the Capitol today to plead for relief from rising property taxes.
If their numbers are large enough and their pleadings loud enough, maybe House Tax Committee chair Ron Abrams will meet with their organization's president, Richard Wray.
But don't bet on it.
If lobbying the Legislature were a poker game, one would say that Wray and the cabin owners have overplayed their hand. A few years ago, they were hailed as one of the most effective citizens' groups to descend on lawmakers in many a year. "Devilishly well organized" is how ...