{"id":12200,"date":"2010-07-22T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T17:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12200"},"modified":"2010-07-22T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T17:30:38","slug":"in-the-interest-of-informed-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12200","title":{"rendered":"In The Interest Of Informed Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Quimby accepts State Auditor Rebecca Otto’s explanation<\/a> about her expense reporting (my jury is still out) – and skips from that to “showing” how the GOP really isn’t the party of business.<\/p>\n

(Whereas the party of top-five-in-nation corporate taxes, “tax the working rich”, and the $20K\/year minimum wage, apparently, is…)<\/p>\n

Go over and read it if you like.<\/p>\n

But I’ll take things to the next level.\u00a0 Let’s move the debate out of hooting about numbers and name-calling, and focus on the issues.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with Rebecca Otto’s record in office.\u00a0 Let’s start with all of her accomplishments in her four years as State Auditor.<\/p>\n

For starters…<\/p>\n

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Love the rain, doncha….<\/p>\n

…OH, I got it!\u00a0 She filed an amicus brief in support of McDonald<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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…no, that was Attorney-General Swanson.\u00a0 OK…<\/p>\n

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…OK.\u00a0 Perhaps we need to go back to namecalling.<\/p>\n

(In the interest of fairness:\u00a0 If, indeed, Rebecca Otto did not, in fact, overbill for her on-the-road per diems<\/em>, she can <\/em>use “Otto For Auditor:\u00a0 She Didn’t Really Overcharge You!” as a campaign slogan.\u00a0 Uninspiring, but really, the best thing she’s got so far).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Quimby accepts State Auditor Rebecca Otto’s explanation about her expense reporting (my jury is still out) – and skips from that to “showing” how the GOP really isn’t the party of business. (Whereas the party of top-five-in-nation corporate taxes, “tax the working rich”, and the $20K\/year minimum wage, apparently, is…) Go over and read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200","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=12200"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12208,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12200\/revisions\/12208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}