{"id":14430,"date":"2010-10-18T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14430"},"modified":"2010-10-17T15:45:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T20:45:49","slug":"a-bit-of-a-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14430","title":{"rendered":"A Bit Of A Shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In and among the Pioneer Press&#8217; drearily-predictable chain of DFL endorsements (which seem largely to be based on the idea of bringing more state pork to their respective districts) came this news yesterday; they endore\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/opinion\/ci_16340851?nclick_check=1\">Doug Wardlow over DFL incumbent Mike Obermuller<\/a> in House District 38B.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Doug Wardlow said he wants Minnesota to be a &#8220;bulwark against encroachment by the federal government&#8221; and to assert its rights as a &#8220;sovereign government.&#8221; He said Minnesota should join the suit seeking to challenge the new federal health reform law and said he would seek to balance the state&#8217;s budget without a statewide tax increase. &#8220;We need to figure out how to do more with less,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Obermueller said legislators cannot go to St. Paul with their &#8220;mind made up&#8221; on critical issues. He said he tries to listen carefully and be a &#8220;bridge&#8221; between the two parties. He argues for a &#8220;balanced approach&#8221; the budget deficit and cautions against anti-government rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>Two capable and articulate candidates make this a tough call. We give a slight advantage to the challenger, Doug Wardlow, whose impressive resume includes work on international trade issues in Washington. We endorse Doug Wardlow for House District 38B; his conservative voice will be a welcome addition to the diversity of opinion at the Capitol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve interviewed Doug on the NARN, and I&#8217;ve appeared with him at fundraisers for Diane Anderson (who is in her second run for 38A against Sandra Masin, in a race where the PiPress declined to endorse &#8211; which has to be a cold, decaying slap in the face for Masin in and of itself). \u00a0While this blog does not &#8220;endorse&#8221;, I concur completely; let&#8217;s get Doug into the House!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In and among the Pioneer Press&#8217; drearily-predictable chain of DFL endorsements (which seem largely to be based on the idea of bringing more state pork to their respective districts) came this news yesterday; they endore\u00a0Doug Wardlow over DFL incumbent Mike Obermuller in House District 38B. Doug Wardlow said he wants Minnesota to be a &#8220;bulwark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minnesota-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430","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=14430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14433,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14430\/revisions\/14433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}