DMV mess: Despite deputy registrars' pleas for rescue funds, they might get nothing at Capitol
They’re private business owners and government employees with a basic job: Help you renew your license plates and update the title to your car.
And on Sunday, they appeared to become legislative roadkill, casualties of a Legislature and governor unable to agree on much of anything.
Government and private deputy registrars — the people who run the 170 license centers throughout the state — pleaded for lawmakers from both parties to do the only thing that seemed feasible to help some of them to keep their doors open: override Gov. Mark Dayton’s veto of an aid package.
“We beg of you to please support this,” Julie Hanson, who serves as deputy registrar for Scott County, said in front of the media Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Capitol.
Read more: https://www.twincities.com/2018/05/20/we-beg-of-you-license-center-operators-plead-for-override-of-daytons-veto-of-dmv-rescue-funds/