Historic challenges confront Minnesota in the next four years. They will be met only if the state has a governor able to inspire citizens to shoulder shared sacrifice for the sake of our common future. The Independence Party’s Tom Horner can deliver that kind of transforming leadership. We urge his election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Further proof, if any were needed, that the Strib’s editorial board lives on Planet Portland Avenue.<\/p>\n
Tom Horner, “inspiring citizens”? \u00a0The guy – like most “Independence” Party politicians, except for the one that will ever actually hold office, Jesse Ventura – is the political equivalent of a Star Trek fanatic; he loves the idea of fiddling with all those nifty levers and buttons.<\/p>\n
As to “transforming government”? \u00a0If he takes office – and this endorsement is as close as he will get – he will stand at the head of exactly zero Independence Party legislators. \u00a0He will have to build a coalition of legislators who come as close as possible to agreeing with him.<\/p>\n
And that’s the great fraud of the “Independence Party”, today as it was under Jesse Ventura. \u00a0Ventura, with no legislators (technically one RINO Republican did switch to the IP for her last term), had to run into the welcoming arms and pocket-picking hands of the only legislative caucus that had any synchronicity with his own agenda.<\/p>\n
And Horner will have to do the same. \u00a0Because that’s the great secret that the DFL is trying to cover up with all of their “Horner Is Republican” ad blitz; Horner’s policies are indistinsuishable from a vaguely moderate DFLer.<\/p>\n
Horner presents voters with an opportunity they cannot afford to pass up. He possesses not only the understanding and communication skills that governing requires, but, unlike either DFLer Mark Dayton or Republican Tom Emmer, he also has the temperament to bridge the partisan divide that has long stymied the search for lasting solutions to chronic problems, both in Minnesota and the nation. For us, this choice is not a close call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
No, I’m sure it’s not.<\/p>\n
But again with the Planet Portland. \u00a0Horner “communicates” like a hectoring school teacher. \u00a0And the “partisan divide” exists for a reason; there are two vastly different visions for this state. \u00a0Horner has his toe on one side and his foot on the other – the left side – and like all “moderate” solutions will give us the worst of both worlds.<\/p>\n
Tom Horner: \u00a0the Real DFLer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The shorter Strib endorsement of Tom Horner: “He’s wonky enough, he’s almost liberal enough, and he’s not bat-spittle crazy”. It\u00a0h runs a little longer than that, naturally: Historic challenges confront Minnesota in the next four years. They will be met only if the state has a governor able to inspire citizens to shoulder shared sacrifice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428","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=14428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14452,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14428\/revisions\/14452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}