{"id":12941,"date":"2010-08-26T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12941"},"modified":"2010-08-26T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T19:33:31","slug":"be-careful-what-you-wish-for-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=12941","title":{"rendered":"Be Careful What You Wish For"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Dayton demanded that the GOP’s “Trackers” wear some sort of attire to distinguish themselves from all the other people gathered around him.<\/p>\n

It’s part of his two-week old whinge against the recent college grads with flipcams who’ve been recording the things he says on the campaign trail to be checked against things he says elsewhere, in case he promises things to people in Bemidji that he eschews in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n

Now, I’m not sure what all his fuss is about. \u00a0Trackers aren’t hard to spot under any circumstances; they’re the youngish people with the video cameras<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For example, here’s “Zack”, the DFLer (poli sci grad from Macalester, not that that was a huge shock) we met at Tom Emmer’s SD54 Picnic appearance last week:<\/p>\n

\"Zack,

"Zack", DFL tracker covering Tom Emmer at the SD54 picnic last week.<\/p><\/div>\n

Notice the boredom; he’s seen the speech a time or two. \u00a0That’s another common “tell” for trackers.<\/p>\n

Not to mention the friggin’ flip cam.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Still, the MNGOP is all about the help. \u00a0Here,according to Michael Brodkorb, are the new tracker uniforms:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

You’re welcome, Senator Dayton.<\/p>\n

No, don’t mention it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Dayton demanded that the GOP’s “Trackers” wear some sort of attire to distinguish themselves from all the other people gathered around him. It’s part of his two-week old whinge against the recent college grads with flipcams who’ve been recording the things he says on the campaign trail to be checked against things he says […]<\/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-12941","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\/12941","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=12941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12943,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12941\/revisions\/12943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}