The UpTake has some great video of Mark Dayton speaking at the Blue State Ball on Saturday. Dayton skewered the GOP for their one sole priority during the last legislative session:

…an absolute unwavering devotion to their mantra that there will be no tax increases on the richest Minnesotans. And everything else — everything else sacrificed at that altar. Property taxes increased, school funding withheld, borrowing from our future with tobacco bonds… everything and anything so as not to make the wealthiest 2 percent of Minnesotans pay their fair share of taxes.

I couldn’t agree more. I noted back in July that the GOP’s lone victory was protecting multi-millionaires. And I’m glad Dayton is willing to bring this to the forefront of the debate.

In fact, Dayton went on to urge DFLers to take a strong stand on raising taxes on the very rich, calling it good policy and good politics. He’s absolutely right — after all, he took back the Governor’s mansion with those politics. I hope DFL legislative candidates will heed his advice.

Watch the whole speech below: