The Minnesota governor’s contest has two probusiness contenders — Republican Tom Emmer and the Independence Party’s Tom Horner.<\/p>\n
That was the unanimous judgment of five Minnesota Chamber of Commerce audience members who lingered after last Tuesday’s three-way gubernatorial candidates’ debate to talk about what they’d heard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The “unanimous” judgment; despite the fact that he wants to jack up sales taxes and a variety of other government excises, Horner is just dreamy.<\/p>\n
The Republican candidate is singing the same smaller-government, lower-taxes tune that business lobbyists have been humming for years at the Capitol (though Emmer never seems to get past the chorus to any lyrics describing how he would downsize).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
There are two and a half months go to, Lori. \u00a0I suspect he’ll squeeze it in there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The problem: \u00a0polling shows that Independence Ventura party candidate Tom Horner draws fifty percent more DFLers than Republicans, despite a months-long campaign to portray him as “the other Republican” to try to suck votes away from Tom Emmer. You know the DFL is concerned. \u00a0Because Lori Sturdevant is on the case: The Minnesota governor’s contest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905","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=12905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12907,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12905\/revisions\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}