“It’s important that people understand that the state doesn’t construct every road,” Morrow said.

Then there’s the unfinished, but broadly supported, business from the regular session that ended after lawmakers ran up against the constitutional deadline for adjournment May 21.

Those items include cost-of-living adjustments for nursing home workers and a constitutional amendment to increase the sales tax to provide more funding for the outdoors and the arts.

“I’d love to revisit nursing home COLAs,” said Gunther, who maintains the issue is approaching emergency status for nursing homes in his district — Martin and parts of Faribault and Watonwan counties. “I think all seven of them in my district are in red ink.”

But Cornish fears reopening the health and human services bill could run counter to the idea of a quick special session. He also says the constitutional amendment can wait until next year’s regular session.

Dealing with the disasters and possibly property-tax relief is enough, said Cornish, because partisanship is likely to rear its head.

“I don’t think anybody believes that everybody’s going to come in and talk nice,” he said. “Both sides are going to try to get their pound of flesh and lay blame.”