{"id":13285,"date":"2010-09-06T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13285"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:23:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:23:32","slug":"chanting-points-memo-dfl-busted-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13285","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: DFL Busted Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Tom Emmer was setting up at Permac Industries in Burnsville to announce the first part of its budget plan, the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL\/status\/23160835958\">Minnesota DFL party&#8217;s Twitter account announced<\/a>&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4017\/4575208799_e7c6e34c94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Spoiler Alert: Tom Emmer to Hold Press Conference at Company Saved by the Recovery Act Funding He Opposes http:\/\/ht.ly\/2A8QT #goDFL<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This prompted other DFLers to crow that Permac had been &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sallyjos\/status\/23161413660\">saved<\/a>&#8221; by the stimulus, or &#8220;expanded&#8221; because of it. \u00a0They harped, naturally, on the irony; Emmer opposes the measures that, they said, kept Permac in business.<\/p>\n<p>Wow. \u00a0That woulda been a fumble.<\/p>\n<p>Except it&#8217;s not true.<\/p>\n<p>Permac has received not one nickel of cash from the stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>Two sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed that Permac hired a worker who&#8217;d gone through a Dakota County training program that had received stimulus money to help train the unempoyed. \u00a0The hiree was an <em>unemployed <\/em>worker.<\/p>\n<p>Permac also got a tax break from the\u00a0<em>Bush Administration <\/em>stimulus. \u00a0Which, if you&#8217;ve been paying attention, is exactly the sort of &#8220;stimulus&#8221; Emmer proposed at the press conference fifteen minutes later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why is the DFL lying to the people?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0It wasn&#8217;t just leftyblogger Sally Jo Sorenson who claimed the tax break and the county-trained worker &#8220;saved&#8221; Permac. \u00a0The DFL&#8217;s <em>press release<\/em> said so.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on contacting a Permac source to address this gross DFL distortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tom Emmer was setting up at Permac Industries in Burnsville to announce the first part of its budget plan, the Minnesota DFL party&#8217;s Twitter account announced&#8230;: Spoiler Alert: Tom Emmer to Hold Press Conference at Company Saved by the Recovery Act Funding He Opposes http:\/\/ht.ly\/2A8QT #goDFL This prompted other DFLers to crow that Permac [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285","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=13285"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38691,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13285\/revisions\/38691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}