[6] In the spring legislative session, a bill introduced by Blahnik to reduce the salaries of all state workers and officials making more than $90 a month (later modified to $150) drew a great deal of attention, but little support.
[7] He also drew attention for his proposal that the legislature petition President Hoover to suspend enforcement of Prohibition "during the present period of economic depression", declaring that the general welfare should take precedence over the Constitution in such critical times.
[8] He had more luck with a bill to exempt horses, mules, wagons, carriages, sleighs and harness from personal property tax, as had just been done with automobiles.
[10] In 1932, rather than seek re-election to the Assembly as previously reported,[11] Blahnik ran for the Democratic nomination for the newly-redistricted Wisconsin's 8th congressional district.
[12] Although he would later tell a Madison reporter that this announcement was made "in a spirit of humor",[13] he did eventually file for his own Assembly seat, drawing only 105 votes to Democratic nominee Albert Shimek's 3,663 and Republican Joseph M. Mleziva's 2,170.