{"id":14453,"date":"2010-10-18T11:59:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14453"},"modified":"2010-10-18T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T11:00:45","slug":"coleman-shut-up-peasants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14453","title":{"rendered":"Coleman: &#8220;Shut Up, Peasants&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/opinion\/editorials\/105067929.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aULPQL7PQLanchO7DiUsX\">Strib endorsement<\/a> of &#8220;Indpendence&#8221; Party former-Republican-who&#8217;s-turned-into-a-moderate-DFLer-who-had-to -join-the-IP-because-the-DFL-has-become-so-freaking-extreme Tom Horner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not since Elmer L. Andersen in 1960 has a successful business owner and CEO left a prominent Minnesota firm to seek the governorship. Like Andersen, Horner, the cofounder of the Himle Horner public-relations firm, is doing so for the best of reasons: He loves Minnesota; he&#8217;s a serious student of government and economics, and he feels called to service. At age 60, Horner seeks to apply the lessons of a lifetime spent working in and around public policy to the restoration of this state&#8217;s vitality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NickColeman\/statuses\/27666687766\">Nick Coleman<\/a>, on Twitter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Horner: I KNEW Elmer Andersen and (my father) SERVED with Elmer Andersen and you are NO Elmer Andersen. Not sure Elmer would vote 4 you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Listening to DFL holdovers from the sixties, like Coleman and Lori Sturdevant, yammering about what the politicians of Minnesota&#8217;s putative golden age reminds me of scholars cloistered in a medieval back room debating how many angels could sit on the head of a pin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Strib endorsement of &#8220;Indpendence&#8221; Party former-Republican-who&#8217;s-turned-into-a-moderate-DFLer-who-had-to -join-the-IP-because-the-DFL-has-become-so-freaking-extreme Tom Horner: Not since Elmer L. Andersen in 1960 has a successful business owner and CEO left a prominent Minnesota firm to seek the governorship. Like Andersen, Horner, the cofounder of the Himle Horner public-relations firm, is doing so for the best of reasons: He loves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453","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=14453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14455,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14453\/revisions\/14455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}