{"id":14273,"date":"2010-10-12T06:50:47","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T11:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14273"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:19:39","slug":"chanting-points-memo-daytons-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14273","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: Dayton’s Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"

With my years of blogging experience and keen blogging instincts, I’ve learned a thing or two.\"\"<\/p>\n

Maybe three.<\/p>\n

One of them is “when you see a bunch of DFL-linked leftybloggers start ridiculing something in the kind of unison that’d impress a synchonized swimming team, you know there’s something they’re trying to get people to ignore.<\/p>\n

This is the piece of the video they’re hooting and hollering about:<\/p>\n

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It’s after a gubernatorial debate yesterday during which Dayton had taken questions about his settlement with Brad Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, he didn’t necessarily answer <\/em>the questions; even Pat Kessler notes the paucity of detail:<\/p>\n

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\nDayton – the candidate of the party of “champions of the working fella” – had to settle with a former staffer after appealing his wrongful termination case all the way to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

So what is he running from?<\/p>\n

What about the case is so nasty that Dayton can’t even talk <\/em>about it with reporters?<\/p>\n

And – Kessler’s observations aside – when is the media going to seriously question him?<\/p>\n

After all, the “malpractice” suit against Emmer – likely as not just a money grab that uses the election for leverage – got slavering coverage from the regional media.\u00a0 It was the most important story there was.<\/em><\/p>\n

And yet we have a gubernatorial candidate who uses his boundless wealth to drag a suit through the courts and…almost nothing?<\/p>\n

Kudos to Kessler and WCCO for running it.<\/p>\n

Who’ll follow up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With my years of blogging experience and keen blogging instincts, I’ve learned a thing or two. Maybe three. One of them is “when you see a bunch of DFL-linked leftybloggers start ridiculing something in the kind of unison that’d impress a synchonized swimming team, you know there’s something they’re trying to get people to ignore. […]<\/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":[312],"class_list":["post-14273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","tag-mngov-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273","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=14273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14275,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14273\/revisions\/14275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}