{"id":10212,"date":"2010-04-19T06:36:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10212"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:22:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:22:16","slug":"open-letter-to-betty-mccollum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10212","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Betty McCollum"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: Rep. Betty McCollum<\/p>\n

From: Mitc Berg, peasant in your realm<\/p>\n

Re: Campaign<\/p>\n

Rep. McCollum,<\/p>\n

You’ve been in office for ten years, winning most years by huge margins.\u00a0 Of course, this past few cycles have been great years for Democrats everywhere – so here in the Fourth District, it’s been just ludicrous; you’ve won by the same margin Brezhnev got in the 1970 Soviet elections.<\/p>\n

And you’ve developed a bit of a reputation for dodging debates<\/a>.\u00a0 The rumor has it that it’s because you’re just not able of holding your own against anyone past about sixth grade.\u00a0\u00a0 But in a normal year, that’s OK – this is the Fourth District. In a normal year, the Fourth District DFL could endorse Ed Gein, Crispin Glover or a bag of Snausages and get 55% of the vote.<\/p>\n

But this isn’t a normal year.\u00a0 The GOP has a tail wind this year; you might not be a walkon this year.\u00a0 Teresa Collette won endorsement with a pretty good head of steam.<\/p>\n

So here’s the question; are you going to scamper like a scared kitten away from a debate and hide behind your friends in the media again?<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: Rep. Betty McCollum From: Mitc Berg, peasant in your realm Re: Campaign Rep. McCollum, You’ve been in office for ten years, winning most years by huge margins.\u00a0 Of course, this past few cycles have been great years for Democrats everywhere – so here in the Fourth District, it’s been just ludicrous; you’ve won by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-10212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33716,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10212\/revisions\/33716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}