{"id":1408,"date":"2007-10-05T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2007-10-05T09:14:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T14:14:33","slug":"stanek-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1408","title":{"rendered":"Stanek Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDE reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/10\/04\/breaking-news-hennepin-county-sheriff-rich-stanek-decides-against-run-for-congress-in-3rd-cd\/\">Rich Stanek isn&#8217;t going to run<\/a> for Jim Ramstad&#8217;s 3rd CD seat.<\/p>\n<p>Stanek, the Henco sheriff, would have made a great congressional representative &#8211; but would have had to spend a lot of time and effort fighting off recycled palaver over his past racist remarks and actions\u00a0(for which he&#8217;s worked harder than anyone I know if in the public eye to atone, and for which even the crypto-maoist <em>City Pages <\/em>has (grudgingly)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypages.com\/detail.asp?ArticleID=14837\">declared him rehabilitated<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; not that any of that matters to the local media).<\/p>\n<p>He leaves behind a decent field of solid conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>More &#8211; <em>much, much <\/em>more &#8211; on this race over the next 11 months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDE reports that Rich Stanek isn&#8217;t going to run for Jim Ramstad&#8217;s 3rd CD seat. Stanek, the Henco sheriff, would have made a great congressional representative &#8211; but would have had to spend a lot of time and effort fighting off recycled palaver over his past racist remarks and actions\u00a0(for which he&#8217;s worked harder than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-06","category-minnesota-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","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=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}