{"id":10390,"date":"2010-04-29T06:35:45","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10390"},"modified":"2010-04-29T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T12:18:11","slug":"in-which-mitch-finally-gets-into-internet-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10390","title":{"rendered":"In Which Mitch Finally Gets Into Internet Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never more than a degree behind the liberal fashion curve, Saint Paul mayor Chris Coleman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/stpaul\/92333094.html?elr=KArksUUUU\">ordered a boycott of city-funded travel to Arizona:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Arizona&#8217;s new immigrtion law], &#8220;rooted in hate and fear,&#8221; sets a dangerous example, Coleman said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It will create a culture where racial profiling is acceptable and will create a dangerous wedge between police officers and the communities they serve,&#8221; Coleman said. &#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine what it would have been like for my grandmother had they passed a similar anti-Irish law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But we can, Mayor Coleman &#8211; because <em>your grandmother came here legally<\/em>.\u00a0 Just like my great-grandparents.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Today I choose to stand with the millions of immigrants in our city and across the country who should have access to the same level of safety and opportunity as everyone else.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Illegal <\/em>immigrants?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coleman said he would write to the Democratic and Republican national committees, urging them not to choose Phoenix as a site for national conventions in 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you care to help out Arizona companies who facing getting hit with financial losses because of the anti-sovereignty bigotry of a few well-heeled lefty governments, here&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/arizona.bizhwy.com\/\"> a list of companies<\/a> from Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never more than a degree behind the liberal fashion curve, Saint Paul mayor Chris Coleman ordered a boycott of city-funded travel to Arizona: [Arizona&#8217;s new immigrtion law], &#8220;rooted in hate and fear,&#8221; sets a dangerous example, Coleman said. &#8220;It will create a culture where racial profiling is acceptable and will create a dangerous wedge between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390","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=10390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10390\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}