{"id":1050,"date":"2007-07-12T10:35:30","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T15:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2007-07-12T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2007-07-12T15:35:30","slug":"stuart-smalley-carpetbagger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1050","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Smalley, Carpetbagger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brodkorb on the story that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/07\/10\/star-tribune-82-percent-of-franken-donors-are-from-outside-minnesota\/\">should be leading the news every friggin&#8217; evening<\/a>; four out of every five of Al Franken&#8217;s contribs are from out of state!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Would you expect anything less from a man who said his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/06\/20\/mn-gop-al-franken-d-big-entertainment\/\">life<\/a>&#8221; was in New York and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/06\/12\/checks-balances-a-frank-question-for-franken\/\">who responded to the question<\/a> &#8220;[i]f Paul Wellstone had not died would you have moved back to Minnesota?&#8221; with the answer &#8220;I am not sure&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It reminds me of the statistic from the &#8217;02 Senate race, when records showed that the <em>average <\/em>donation to the Wellstone! campaign was in the very patrician three digits, while Coleman&#8217;s campaign&#8217;s average contribution was somewhere under $50 &#8211; and yet Coleman&#8217;s fundraising kept pace with Wellstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brodkorb on the story that should be leading the news every friggin&#8217; evening; four out of every five of Al Franken&#8217;s contribs are from out of state! Would you expect anything less from a man who said his &#8220;life&#8221; was in New York and who responded to the question &#8220;[i]f Paul Wellstone had not died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","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=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}