{"id":10790,"date":"2010-05-07T07:37:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T12:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10790"},"modified":"2010-05-07T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T12:38:00","slug":"10790","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10790","title":{"rendered":"Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this email from Joe Doakes of Como Park, a government employee in Saint Paul:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Paul Mayor Coleman issued a press statement April 28 prohibiting City<br \/>\nagencies from traveling to <span id=\"lw_1273235241_0\">Arizona<\/span>, to protest the anti-illegal immigration<br \/>\nsteps being taken there.\u00a0 Apparently, Mayor Coleman&#8217;s grandmother was an<br \/>\nillegal immigrant from <span id=\"lw_1273235241_1\" style=\"border-bottom: 1px dashed #0066cc; cursor: pointer;\">Ireland<\/span> and he&#8217;s taken this stand in her memory, and<br \/>\nurges all of us to do so, as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, I will.<\/p>\n<p>Since my six of my eight great-grandparents came here legally, I hereby prohibit all <em>Shot In The Dark <\/em>employees from going to (flips around finding list of heavily Irish cities) Boston on company money.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have a week of training coming up in June.\u00a0 I had my option of going to<br \/>\nOrlando or to Phoenix.\u00a0 Personally, I don&#8217;t cotton to scofflaws.\u00a0 I think<br \/>\nMayor Coleman&#8217;s position is asinine.<\/p>\n<p>I booked the airfare to my training session yesterday . . . to Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Mayor Coleman, for making my choice so much easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I keep pondering commemorating it by being an &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; to the DFL primaries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this email from Joe Doakes of Como Park, a government employee in Saint Paul: St. Paul Mayor Coleman issued a press statement April 28 prohibiting City agencies from traveling to Arizona, to protest the anti-illegal immigration steps being taken there.\u00a0 Apparently, Mayor Coleman&#8217;s grandmother was an illegal immigrant from Ireland and he&#8217;s taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790","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=10790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10793,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10790\/revisions\/10793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}