{"id":12080,"date":"2010-07-16T07:04:54","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12080"},"modified":"2010-07-16T07:04:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:04:54","slug":"and-now-some-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12080","title":{"rendered":"And Now Some Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Conlin was, for many years, the sole voice of responsibility and sanity in Ramsey County, as the only elected Republican in office anywhere in the county. \u00a0Outnumbered, he could only do so much &#8211; but at the very least there was someone on the board pointing out the madness of the majority.<\/p>\n<p>Tom ran for State Auditor, but dropped out at the convention; he would have done a great job, but there&#8217;s no way to beat the Anderson machine (and she&#8217;ll do a great job too).<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some bad news&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We had no paid staff, but nonetheless incurred campaign expenses beyond what we raised during the campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and some good news!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I am hoping to recover some of that debt with your help. I am also preparing for a 2011 St. Paul School Board race, a seat I held for 17 years and have won successfully in 5 elections as St. Paul\u2019s lone Republican-endorsed elected official. I intend to seek Republican Party endorsement again for this seat in February.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomconlon.org\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Conlin was, for many years, the sole voice of responsibility and sanity in Ramsey County, as the only elected Republican in office anywhere in the county. \u00a0Outnumbered, he could only do so much &#8211; but at the very least there was someone on the board pointing out the madness of the majority. Tom ran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-republicans","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080","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=12080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12082,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12080\/revisions\/12082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}