{"id":1534,"date":"2007-10-31T06:32:52","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2007-10-31T06:32:52","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T11:32:52","slug":"armageddon-in-saint-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Armageddon in Saint Paul?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/saintpaulicy.com\/2007\/10\/26\/the-winds-of-change.aspx\">SaintPaulicy notes<\/a> a new campaign teeing up in Saint Paul:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While campaign staffs in wards across the city work hard to get to Election Day \u2013 another race is quietly taking shape and there is already one candidate in the contest.<\/p>\n<p>SPicy has learned that a very prominent Saint Paul leader has apparently decided to be the first to challenge Chris Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>No, fellow SPicy readers \u2013 it&#8217;s not Tim Marx. It&#8217;s none other than <strong>William &#8220;Corky&#8221; Finney<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Finney has apparently made the decision to run for Mayor \u2013 before the &#8220;current occupant&#8221; hits the half way point.<\/p>\n<p>What would make a one-time-supporter of Chris Coleman break ranks?<\/p>\n<p>SPicy is on the case \u2013 and remember \u2013 you read it here first.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finney &#8211; Saint Paul&#8217;s former police chief and a DFLer with immense political capital &#8211; would make this next mayoral race a very interesting one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SaintPaulicy notes a new campaign teeing up in Saint Paul: While campaign staffs in wards across the city work hard to get to Election Day \u2013 another race is quietly taking shape and there is already one candidate in the contest. SPicy has learned that a very prominent Saint Paul leader has apparently decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","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=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}