{"id":11686,"date":"2010-06-30T06:44:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:32:00","slug":"the-powers-that-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11686","title":{"rendered":"The Powers That Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Pusey at Minnesota “Progressive” Project <\/em>complains<\/a> about John Kline:<\/p>\n

Kline is notorious for rarely if ever appearing in public. \u00a0Kline only appears at events where the contact is either with pre-screened, conservative-only audiences or the questions are screened in advance. \u00a0Kline doesn’t debate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Either do Keith Ellison – a prickly little man who can’t tolerate dissent – or Betty McCollum, who would be overmatched \u00a0debating Anna Nicole Smith.<\/p>\n

Pusey is writing on behalf of “Powers<\/a>“, the DFL’s endorsed victim in the 2nd CD. \u00a0Powers, a construction worker who beat Shelly Madore in the “unified” DFL in the 2nd CD, is on his way to getting maybe 30% this November.<\/p>\n

“Plus, we’re getting lots of hits on our website after every parade or event,” he continued. \u00a0“People are checking me out further after they first meet me.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To be honest, I’d like to see debates in every district for every race – but I can see why Kline doesn’t take the chance in a district where he has a crushing advantage, in a city where the media will wrench everything he says out of context.<\/p>\n

Not sure that Ellison and McCollum have the same excuse…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Pusey at Minnesota “Progressive” Project complains about John Kline: Kline is notorious for rarely if ever appearing in public. \u00a0Kline only appears at events where the contact is either with pre-screened, conservative-only audiences or the questions are screened in advance. \u00a0Kline doesn’t debate. Either do Keith Ellison – a prickly little man who can’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,155],"tags":[161,164],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","tag-mn-cd2","tag-mn-cd5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","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=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23848,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/23848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}