{"id":10519,"date":"2010-05-01T20:05:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T01:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10519"},"modified":"2010-05-02T13:40:53","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:40:53","slug":"not-lori-sturdevant-we-are-women-hear-we-roar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10519","title":{"rendered":"Not Lori Sturdevant:  &#8220;We Are Women, Hear We Roar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The below is a contestant in the &#8220;Write Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s Next Column&#8221; contest, written by &#8220;JW Of Minnesota&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Vote above.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a warm and sunny evening on upscale, progressive Minneapolis, a small handful of right-wing politicos selected their ringleader to succeed Tim P. After hosting the Young Socialists meeting at my ELCA worship center, I decided to hop in the Pruis and swing over to Minneapolis for the Republican convention. What I found was a bunch of grey-suited power-brokers striving to select another grey suit. After several breath-taking rounds of voting, the grey suit driving all the long way from that suburban Delano was selected.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll mount a fine Minnesota challenge to the recently selected DFL\u2019er Kelliher. Strong on Minnesota dairy farm values, with the right touch of Minneapolis progressive thinking, Kelliher will put up a super-duper fight.<\/p>\n<p>Calling on an old friend from my reporting days, I spoke with the well-known conservative Arne Carlson. He tells me \u201cLori, the Republicans keep moving so far to the right, Genghis Khan would blush.\u201d We wholeheartedly agreed the problem grey suit faces is not in his well-spoken, experienced DFL adversity, but with his predecessor. Following Tim Pawlenty won\u2019t be easy. It\u2019s tough, given the millions poor and children who have been forced to live on the street due to Pawlenty only growing the state government in single digits.<\/p>\n<p>A reputation like that needs a strong-willed woman and community organizer from Minneapolis to move across the lovely Mississippi to make the Governor\u2019s mansion a home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The below is a contestant in the &#8220;Write Lori Sturdevant&#8217;s Next Column&#8221; contest, written by &#8220;JW Of Minnesota&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 Vote above. On a warm and sunny evening on upscale, progressive Minneapolis, a small handful of right-wing politicos selected their ringleader to succeed Tim P. After hosting the Young Socialists meeting at my ELCA worship center, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519","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=10519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10585,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10519\/revisions\/10585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}