{"id":12763,"date":"2010-08-18T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T01:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12763"},"modified":"2010-08-18T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T02:34:33","slug":"back-to-the-patio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12763","title":{"rendered":"Back On The Patio: Meet Tom Emmer"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s 8PM, and I’m out on the patio at Keegans again, at “Meet Tom Emmer” night. \u00a0Not that there’s going to be a lot <\/em>to liveblog – I’ve met Tom Emmer! – but I’m here with a computer, so why not? \u00a0About 21 people out here so far, and I expect more. \u00a0Emmer isn’t here yet – he’s out raising funds.<\/p>\n

8:03 – 25 people now. \u00a0Not a fundraiser per se<\/em> – just a meet ‘n greet.<\/p>\n

I’m at a table with Barry Hickethier (running against Larry Pogemiller<\/a> in District 59), Sue Jeffers, Craig Westover, John LaPlante<\/a>, Guy Collins, and a whole slew of others.<\/p>\n

\"The

The big table at Keegans. I'm getting deja vu...<\/p><\/div>\n

8:12: \u00a0Greg Wersal<\/a> – judge candidate – is speaking now. \u00a0Jacquie Emmer just showed up.<\/p>\n

\"Greg

Greg Wersal speaks<\/p><\/div>\n

8:25 – Barry Hickethier<\/a> – who’s running against Pogey in SD59 – speaks.<\/p>\n

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Barry Hickethier speaks<\/p><\/div>\n

Jacquie worked the crowd as Tom was detained at another fundraiser. \u00a0Too bad none of us are heirs to a huge fortune, huh?<\/p>\n

\"Jacquie

Jacquie Emmer talking with Terry Keegan<\/p><\/div>\n

8:45 – Emmer has arrived; he’s working the room:<\/p>\n

\"Emmer

Emmer meets and greets<\/p><\/div>\n

9:00 straight up – Emmer talking.<\/p>\n

The message hasn’t changed, says Emmer. \u00a0Dayton’s “message of hope” is about making more tax classifications.<\/p>\n

“What’ll keep a business in Minnesota, if they’re going to be taxed like Dayton proposes? \u00a0They’ll move! \u00a0It’s a broken record”<\/p>\n

\"Emmer

Emmer speaks.<\/p><\/div>\n

“Let’s stop destroying business! \u00a0The only future for this state is the future we offer; people, not government! Tha’ts the art of constitutional government!”<\/p>\n

“We have to start re-educating hte public as to the message we offer. \u00a0And if we do that, w’ell not only win in November, but our kids will have the future we want ’em to have!”<\/p>\n

Re: the Trackers: \u00a0“We’ve been running <\/em>a clean campaign! \u00a0They’re the ones doing the attacking!”<\/p>\n

“We need to leave the kids something other than our debt<\/em>“. \u00a0That got a big round of applause.<\/p>\n

Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities debate – “They knew about our conflict already”.<\/p>\n

\"Emmer

Emmer working the crowd.<\/p><\/div>\n

When are you going to turn Annette loose? “She’s out there!”<\/p>\n

It’s time to kill off the Met Council; Tom and Annette are in complete agreement.<\/p>\n

How about the negativity: \u00a0“The campaign has just begun. \u00a0In coming weeks, more on the air, more on the ground. \u00a0TV and Also tell them – how depressed should the Dems be? \u00a0They’ve spend eight million trashing us, and we’re still, here. \u00a0The stuff that they ran? \u00a0People love to see it – but it’s numbed the public. ”<\/p>\n

“You ain’t seen nothing yet!”<\/p>\n

Barry Hickethier asks “plan for fixing out-of-control costs of post-secondary Ed at the U of M?” \u00a0“When I started talking with Bruinincks at the U, I see they have a lot of the same problems the state has. \u00a0MNSCU is a big part of the problem; they require dupblicative services…”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s 8PM, and I’m out on the patio at Keegans again, at “Meet Tom Emmer” night. \u00a0Not that there’s going to be a lot to liveblog – I’ve met Tom Emmer! – but I’m here with a computer, so why not? \u00a0About 21 people out here so far, and I expect more. \u00a0Emmer isn’t here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763","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=12763"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12766,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12763\/revisions\/12766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}