It's part of the national Republican strategy to try to drive up turnout among the Republican faithful, and to try to scare voters into voting for an issue that's really not one of their top priorities.

The governor has saddled the state with a billion dollars in new hidden taxes just to protect his relationship with a special interest group. Minnesotans deserve better.

He's following a line from the Republican National Committee about what their wedge issue of the year is going to be. In 2004 it was gay marriage; this year it's illegal immigration.