The Minnesota GOP announced its new, streamlined committee structures yesterday, complete with some visual aids that showed how the previous House and Senate committee structures had been a maze of tangled relationships.
Not surprisingly, the chart showing the committee structure under DFL leadership looked like this.
In comparison, the GOP structure is a model of clarity:
I took a quick crack at my own rendition, using the design approach applied to the DFL and using the committee lists reported here. Without even trying hard to make the GOP look bad, I came up with this:
Is the GOP revision of committees (which was discussed by both parties last session) an improvement? Possibly so. But was the old arrangement as bad as they made it look?
