{"id":11110,"date":"2010-05-27T12:43:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2010-05-27T12:43:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:43:45","slug":"robyne-mark-to-pay-matt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11110","title":{"rendered":"Robyne Mark To Pay Matt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about Matt Entenza.\u00a0 The current #3-runner in the DFL primary race knows what makes liberal voters (as opposed to DFL activists) swoon.\u00a0\u00a0 He ended a couple of days of speculation yesterday by\u00a0picking Channel 9 anchorette Robyne Robinson<\/a>\u00a0as his running mate.<\/p>\n

In a news release from the Entenza campaign, Robinson said: “Whether it’s his vision for the clean energy economy, his dedication to reinvesting in schools, or his commitment to civil rights, Matt has spent his career standing up for Minnesota families. I am humbled and honored that he asked me to join his campaign. I look forward to traveling the state over the next months on the campaign trail and then getting to work making Matt’s bold vision a reality.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Entenza’s “bold vision”, of course, is the same as that of Margaret Anderson-Kelliher and Mark Dayton (and his “Independence” Party rival, crypto-liberal Tom Horner); more m0ney.\u00a0 More money for PC boondoggles, more for the Minnesota Federation of Teachers (with fewer strings attached), more money for molding Minnesota to the DFL’s vision.<\/p>\n

But Entenza has differentiated himself, and perhaps shrewdly, by picking Robinson.<\/p>\n

Unlike Margaret Anderson Kelliher’s faux-bipartisan mock-reach-across-the-aisle to died-in-the-wool liberal John Gunyou (who is “bipartisan” because he was budget director for Arne Carlson, which is like saying Meier Lansky wasn’t a mobster because he wasn’t Italian), and Mark Dayton’s dreary shoring-up-with-the-activists choice of Yvonne Prettner-Solon, Entenza has shown that he understands the real lessons of the Obama victory; go shallow.\u00a0 Play for surface effect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mere possibility of an Entenza-Robinson ticket generated more heat for Entenza\u2019s campaign than he\u2019d been able to produce on his own, despite his year long campaign and his first-in-the-race television ad presence. While Fox 9 isn’t seen in every corner of the state, she has fans all over and adds star power to his campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis reinforces our message; we\u2019ve got to do things a new way and we have to get refocused as a state. The old ways aren\u2019t working,” Entenza said Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robyne Robinson; bringing that vaunted TV Anchor rigor and knowledge to the Entenza ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about Matt Entenza.\u00a0 The current #3-runner in the DFL primary race knows what makes liberal voters (as opposed to DFL activists) swoon.\u00a0\u00a0 He ended a couple of days of speculation yesterday by\u00a0picking Channel 9 anchorette Robyne Robinson\u00a0as his running mate. In a news release from the Entenza campaign, Robinson said: “Whether […]<\/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-11110","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\/11110","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=11110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11111,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11110\/revisions\/11111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}