{"id":13104,"date":"2010-09-07T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13104"},"modified":"2010-09-07T07:42:21","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:42:21","slug":"the-dayton-dust-bowl-lean-and-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13104","title":{"rendered":"The Dayton Dust Bowl: Lean And Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a potential commissioner in the Dayton administration, prepare to do a lot of work by yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Dayton proposes to adopt the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees(MAPE) proposal to eliminate what they call political patronage jobs in the Pawlenty Administration.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4952020177_a626ccd1ff_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The MAPE proposal targets Metropolitan Council appointments (does Dayton want them elected?), Deputy Commissioners and Directors of Communications and Government Relations. So if Dayton gets elected, presumably these state agencies will operate without these important positions.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioners in the Dayton Administration will handle their own communications, take all phone calls from legislators and legislative staff, and run their agencies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 43px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;\">This was a nonsensical proposal from MAPE and should not be taken seriously by a gubernatorial candidate. If Mark Dayton wins, he will fill his new administration with political appointees because that\u2019s what the people expect. They expect his government will be run by people who think like him.<\/div>\n<p>This was a nonsensical proposal from MAPE and should not be taken seriously by a gubernatorial candidate. If Mark Dayton wins, he will fill his new administration with political appointees because that\u2019s what the people expect. They expect his government will be run by people who think like him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up at 10AM: \u00a0Dayton makes more room for his union cronies &#8211; on your dime!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markdayton.org\/mainsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/DaytonDeficitSolution.pdf\">Check out the Dayton Budget &#8220;Plan&#8221; for yourself<\/a>! \u00a0Find another howler? \u00a0Leave it in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a potential commissioner in the Dayton administration, prepare to do a lot of work by yourself. Dayton proposes to adopt the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees(MAPE) proposal to eliminate what they call political patronage jobs in the Pawlenty Administration. The MAPE proposal targets Metropolitan Council appointments (does Dayton want them elected?), Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104","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=13104"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13211,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13104\/revisions\/13211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}