What Gov. Dayton recently told UMN regent Sviggum
"I think he's got to make a decision between one and the other. I told him I have great respect for his years of service and we always gotten along very well and my advice as a friend is that this was an embarrassment to him and to the university and he needed to resolve it."
-- Gov. Mark Dayton to MPR reporter Tom Scheck on a recent encounter he had with University of Minnesota regent Steve Sviggum. Sviggum handed in a letter of resignation at a regents meeting today.
Read Scheck's full report here on his Capitol View blog.
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