{"id":14309,"date":"2010-10-13T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14309"},"modified":"2010-10-13T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T17:03:56","slug":"unauthorized-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14309","title":{"rendered":"Unauthorized Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Kihne &#8211; whom I christened the Minnesota conservative blogosphere&#8217;s &#8220;Rookie of the Year&#8221; at an event the other night &#8211; unleashes a Scott-Johnson-caliber take-down of Mark Dayton&#8217;s entire biography over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theactivistnextdoor.com\/component\/content\/article\/270-mark-dayton-when-qself-awarenessq-is-selfish.html\">Activist Next Door<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/elections\/governor\/14109-mark-dayton-the-self-aware-soviet-exchange-student.html\">True North<\/a>, tying together his years as a radical hippie\/&#8221;School Teacher&#8221;, his lamentable Senate career, and his mental health and chemical dependency issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/elections\/governor\/14109-mark-dayton-the-self-aware-soviet-exchange-student.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/looktruenorthsmall140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost-but-not-quite conclusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do we see a pattern? [<em>Read her piece. \u00a0You will see a pattern &#8211; Ed.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are two facts:<\/p>\n<p>1.  During his very first job out-of-college as &#8220;a teacher&#8221;-Mark Dayton couldn&#8217;t handle the pressure- he took time off to protest and he quit in the middle of a school year for &#8220;personal reasons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2.  During his last job as U.S. Senator- He couldn&#8217;t handle the pressure in D.C.&#8211; he shut down his office and started drinking to deal with the stress.<\/p>\n<p>The media has covered for him, but worse than that they&#8217;ve actually lied for him.  For years every profile has perpetuated the myth that Dayton is hard-working.  He may be a hard-campaigner (who isn\u2019t?), that doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;s a hard-worker.  I know people who are great at getting jobs, but once that goal has been met\u2014they get bored, complacent, or overwhelmed. He reminds me of Obama in this regard.  He&#8217;ll work his butt off to accomplish a goal that involves some self-fulfillment, but when reality doesn&#8217;t match his expectations, he simply can&#8217;t handle it.<\/p>\n<p>With a $6 Billion budget deficit&#8230;we need somebody who can handle it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go and read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Kihne &#8211; whom I christened the Minnesota conservative blogosphere&#8217;s &#8220;Rookie of the Year&#8221; at an event the other night &#8211; unleashes a Scott-Johnson-caliber take-down of Mark Dayton&#8217;s entire biography over at Activist Next Door and True North, tying together his years as a radical hippie\/&#8221;School Teacher&#8221;, his lamentable Senate career, and his mental health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309","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=14309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14312,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14309\/revisions\/14312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}