{"id":14561,"date":"2010-10-22T08:45:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T13:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14561"},"modified":"2010-10-22T10:32:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T15:32:11","slug":"indictment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14561","title":{"rendered":"Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Barden, GOP candidate for Attorney General, states his case against Lori Swanson &#8211; the latest in a two-generation uninterrupted chain of one-party domination of the AG&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"343\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4UdbWqctR3M?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"343\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4UdbWqctR3M?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I urge you to watch the whole thing.  A few &#8220;highlights&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>1:07 &#8211; Channel 4 tries to interview Swanson about the irregularities Barden found &#8211; and gets turned away.<\/p>\n<p>1:45 &#8211; Part of the meat of the story &#8211; WCCO reports AG lawyers reporting being pressured to work cases primarily for Swanson&#8217;s political gain as well as that of her predecessor, Mike Hatch, especially by filing high-profile cases designed to pressure defendants into cheap fast settlements. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=%22american+bankers%22+site:www.shotinthedark.info#sclient=psy&amp;hl=en&amp;source=hp&amp;q=%22american+bankers+and+the+media%22+site:www.shotinthedark.info&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=&amp;pbx=1&amp;fp=4ba096ba63ca8429\">This isn&#8217;t <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=%22american+bankers%22+site:www.shotinthedark.info#sclient=psy&amp;hl=en&amp;source=hp&amp;q=%22american+bankers+and+the+media%22+site:www.shotinthedark.info&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=&amp;pbx=1&amp;fp=4ba096ba63ca8429\">completely<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=%22american+bankers%22+site:www.shotinthedark.info#sclient=psy&amp;hl=en&amp;source=hp&amp;q=%22american+bankers+and+the+media%22+site:www.shotinthedark.info&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=&amp;pbx=1&amp;fp=4ba096ba63ca8429\"> news<\/a>, if you&#8217;ve been reading Shot In The Dark;<\/p>\n<p>2:30 &#8211; WCCO&#8217;s ITeam gives vital background on the allegations against the AGO.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>Tell a neighbor.<\/p>\n<p>Remember it on November 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Barden, GOP candidate for Attorney General, states his case against Lori Swanson &#8211; the latest in a two-generation uninterrupted chain of one-party domination of the AG&#8217;s office. I urge you to watch the whole thing. A few &#8220;highlights&#8221;: 1:07 &#8211; Channel 4 tries to interview Swanson about the irregularities Barden found &#8211; and gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561","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=14561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14561\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}