{"id":13977,"date":"2010-10-01T20:51:05","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T01:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13977"},"modified":"2014-12-12T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T20:52:53","slug":"13977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13977","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Common Cause Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>I just sent the following to Mark Dean, director of Common Cause MN, which just filed a complaint against conservative PAC &#8220;Minnesota&#8217;s Future&#8221; for doing exactly what &#8220;Alliance For A Better Minnesota&#8221;, &#8220;Win Minnesota&#8221; and &#8220;The 2010 Fund&#8221; have been doing &#8211; or about 10% of what they&#8217;re doing, anyway&#8230;<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Dean,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Mitch Berg, one of the hosts of the Northern Alliance Radio Network on AM1280 in the Twin Cities.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to invite you to appear on the &#8220;NARN&#8221; with Ed Morrissey and I one of these next weekends to discuss your complaint against &#8220;Minnesota&#8217;s Future&#8221;; we&#8217;re curious why Common Cause has neglected to file a similar complaint against &#8220;&#8221;Alliance For A Better MInnesota&#8221;, &#8220;Win Minnesota&#8221; and &#8220;The 2010 Fund&#8221;, which are doing exactly what you allege Minnesota&#8217;s Future has done, only with many times more money.<\/p>\n<p>On the chance it was all a ghastly oversight, I&#8217;ll bring a complaint form.  We can fill it out on the air together.<\/p>\n<p>While the request is pointed, the Northern Alliance prides ourselves on doing civil, respectful interviews.  Previous &#8220;non-partisan&#8221; guests include RT Rybak, Dane Smith, Eric Black and Rochelle Olson.<\/p>\n<p>We would sincerely love to discuss this before the election.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if any of the next few Saturdays work.  Our program airs from 1-3PM.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope to hear from you.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Mitch Berg<\/p>\n<p>Co-host, The Northern Alliance Radio Network,<\/p>\n<p>AM1280 (WWTC-AM) Radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shot In The Dark&#8221; (www.shotinthedark.info)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;True North&#8221; (www.looktruenorth.com).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[I just sent the following to Mark Dean, director of Common Cause MN, which just filed a complaint against conservative PAC &#8220;Minnesota&#8217;s Future&#8221; for doing exactly what &#8220;Alliance For A Better Minnesota&#8221;, &#8220;Win Minnesota&#8221; and &#8220;The 2010 Fund&#8221; have been doing &#8211; or about 10% of what they&#8217;re doing, anyway&#8230;] Mr. Dean, I&#8217;m Mitch Berg, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,2,51],"tags":[115,143,249],"class_list":["post-13977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-alt-media","category-minnesota-politics","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-abm","tag-common-cause","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977","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=13977"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49866,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13977\/revisions\/49866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}