Star Tribune: Dayton lashes out at new GOP inquiry on MNsure

By Jeffrey Meitrodt

At Tuesday’s news conference, Dayton also addressed allegations that he misled people by saying he was unaware of MNsure’s technical problems until sometime in November.

“I misspoke,” Dayton said. “There was a meeting on Sept. 19 where I learned for the first time there were operational problems that called into question whether MNsure could start on Oct. 1.”

Republicans said the governor’s reluctance to publicly debate MNsure’s problems reflect a pattern of obfuscation by MNsure managers and administration officials.

“Nobody really wants to take the blame for this one,” said Rep. Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley. “A group of people knew we had a broken website and they made a collective decision to let it roll out anyway and let Minnesota be the victim and waste time.”

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