While I live in District 66B, a district with little more hope for change than Kinshasa or Pyongyang have, there is hope elsewhere.<\/p>\n
I spoke at a fund raiser for Diane Anderson<\/a> last night in Eagan. \u00a0That was fun; she’s got some momentum, and with a little help from her friends she might just eject the far-left but otherwise-ineffective Debra Masin from the House this November.<\/p>\n Also – my friend and radio colleague, King Banaian,\u00a0has his campaign website up and going<\/a>.<\/p>\n He also has a campaign blog<\/a> (above and beyond his day blog<\/a>). \u00a0He wrote this bit which needs to be on everyone’s mind these days:<\/p>\n Also met a younger man tonight, perhaps 30, who has been told his job running a kitchen is in jeopardy because the restaurant needs to balance its books. I told him that I wanted to balance the state’s books with without* increasing the costs at his restaurant. It turns out his family has other restaurants, one of whom my son cooks at! I asked him to thank his family for me, because I know they treat my son well there.<\/p>\n But it is hard for restaurants to keep treating their workers well when government decides to disallow a young person from working for a restaurant for less than the minimum wage. It is hard for a restaurant to keep treating its workers well when we raise taxes on liquor (already the highest-taxed good in Minnesota and taxed 20-80% higher than in surrounding states.) It is hard to treat your workers well when the government decides your sole proprietorship making $300,000 in net revenue should pay higher taxes out of ‘fairness’.<\/p>\n All that out of a 3-minute meeting with a voter in north St. Cloud. And I get to do that every day between now and November.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n If you live in Eagan or Saint Cloud, your mission is clear…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While I live in District 66B, a district with little more hope for change than Kinshasa or Pyongyang have, there is hope elsewhere. I spoke at a fund raiser for Diane Anderson last night in Eagan. \u00a0That was fun; she’s got some momentum, and with a little help from her friends she might just eject […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042","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=12042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12044,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12042\/revisions\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}