DFL Gov. Mark Dayton on Tuesday offered Minnesotans, and their lawmakers, a deal: Give me $6 billion in state funding and I will improve roads and bridges in every corner of the state.

The governor is unlikely to get the full $6 billion he wants the state to spend over the next decade approved — the plan relies on taxes and fees unpopular with Republican leaders in the Minnesota House. But Dayton began a blitz at the Capitol, to be followed by trips across the state and conversations with outstate media, to show the Minnesota what all that cash could purchase.

Standing along side maps of Minnesota filled with squiggles and dots representing transportation projects, Dayton said: “These are projects that would not happen without the additional funding.”

In promoting a specific list of more than 600 projects — and seven in Mower County — Dayton plowed an unusual road to win support. Usually, governors and lawmakers leave project-by-project funding decisions up to engineers and transportation experts to avoid the appearance of “earmarking” spending.

“We’re trying to make it specific so that people can say: “Yeah, if we are willing to increase our investment, we’re going to get some results,” the governor said.

In concert with his Transportation Commissioner Charlie Zelle, the governor got specific about the nearly 2,200 miles of roads and the 330 repaired bridges the billions would buy. The list, sorted down to the county level with a “Find Your Local Projects” web guide, even included three new rest areas for outstate Minnesota’s Jackson and Otter Tail counties.

“The strategy of providing everything to everyone is unfortunate,” said Rep. Tim Kelly, a Red Wing Republican and chair of the House Transportation Policy and Finance. “I don’t even think there is one project that isn’t on the list.”

Kelly and the Republicans in control of the Minnesota House and planning on releasing their own more modest transportation plan next month. Kelly declined to say whether the dollar figures in it would be in billions or in millions.

Sen. Scott Dibble, a DFLer from Minneapolis, was more welcoming of the governor’s plan.

“We should take advantage of the momentum we have this year to pass a comprehensive funding package that can keep Minnesota moving forward and guarantee we have the 21st century transportation network that every Minnesotan deserves and expects,” he said in a statement.

Proposed Mower road projects

Bridge: CSAH 19 over Interstate 90

Bridge: CSAH 2 over Interstate 90

Bridge: State Highway 105 MN over Interstate 90

Bridge: State Highway 16 MN over Deer Creek

Bridge: U.S. Highway 218 over Interstate 90

Road: State Highway 56 4 miles from County Highway 46 to Brownsdale Mower

Road: U.S. Highway 218 13 miles from MN State Line to I-90