Rep. Dan Gelber, the House Democratic leader, is distributing a policy paper that says Republican leaders have "accepted mediocrity in nearly every aspect of our government."

He gives a bleak assessment of the state education system, health care and the attempt at property tax reform. Gelber says he has a few ways to change "chart a better course for our state and we don't need 100 ideas to (do) so -- we merely need a handful of meaningful ones." Read it here.

Responds Majority Leader Adam Hasner: "Never let it be said that Minority Leader Gelber is not a man of irony or humor, for in the same “white paper” where he calls for bi-partisanship and decries “government by bumper sticker” he unleashes a torrent of partisan talking points under the catchy headline, “State of Denial” and unmistakably uses 13 pages to communicate his own bumper sticker idea: “Dan Gelber for Senate.”