{"id":11046,"date":"2010-05-24T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11046"},"modified":"2010-07-07T19:49:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T00:49:38","slug":"more-of-the-more-of-the-more-of-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11046","title":{"rendered":"More Of The More Of The More Of The Same"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks after caterwauling that Tom Emmer had “stuck to his extreme right-wing agenda” by selecting Annette Meeks as his running mate, two of the three DFL gubernatorial candidates have…<\/p>\n

…stuck with their extreme left-wing agendas in their choices of running mates.<\/p>\n

Last week Margaret Anderson-Kelliher selected John Gunyou<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gunyou served as state finance commissioner during the first term of Republican Gov. Arne Carlson<\/strong>. He\u2019s also worked as finance director for the City of Minneapolis and most recently as city manager of Minnetonka.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, he ran the budget for a governor whose answer for everything <\/em>was to raise taxes, then for a city that is falling apart, and finally as a manager for a third-tier suburb with a huge corporate and business tax base that can keep even the most megalomaniacal budget afloat…for a while.<\/p>\n

And today came word that Mark Dayton has picked Yvonne Prettner Solon.\u00a0 Prettner Solon is a legislator from Duluth who has a lifetime 14 out of 100 rating from the Taxpayers’ League – and only a 7 in this past session.<\/p>\n

The lesson for average Minnesotans is clear; elect Tom Emmer, or just attach your wallets to a shop-vac and save everyone the trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks after caterwauling that Tom Emmer had “stuck to his extreme right-wing agenda” by selecting Annette Meeks as his running mate, two of the three DFL gubernatorial candidates have… …stuck with their extreme left-wing agendas in their choices of running mates. Last week Margaret Anderson-Kelliher selected John Gunyou: Gunyou served as state finance commissioner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046","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=11046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11841,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11046\/revisions\/11841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}