{"id":16231,"date":"2010-12-13T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16231"},"modified":"2010-12-13T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T15:58:08","slug":"the-d-stands-for-deadbeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16231","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;D&#8221; Stands For &#8220;Deadbeat&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnprogressiveproject.com\/diary\/7987\/why-didnt-minnesota-dfl-pay-convention-bill\">still hasn&#8217;t ponied up for its convention last April <\/a>in Duluth.<\/p>\n<p>From Minnesota &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Project:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Members of a local DFL unit in northeastern Minnesota who recently tried to book an event at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center were stunned to hear that payment in full, up front is now required, a significant deviation from the previous policy of billing the party unit after the event. The cause of this major shift in policy was later discovered to be that the Minnesota DFL still has not paid the bill for the DFL State Convention held at the facility last April.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0A reliable source affiliated with the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center has confirmed that the policy was indeed adopted as a result of a large unpaid bill incurred by the Minnesota DFL for expenses arising from the state convention.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps Brian Melendez thought that the convention results had a warranty, if Margaret Anderson-Kelliher didn&#8217;t win the primary?<\/p>\n<p>Only the latest of many signs the wheels are coming off down on Plato.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL still hasn&#8217;t ponied up for its convention last April in Duluth. From Minnesota &#8220;Progressive&#8221; Project: Members of a local DFL unit in northeastern Minnesota who recently tried to book an event at the Duluth Entertainment Convention Center were stunned to hear that payment in full, up front is now required, a significant deviation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231","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=16231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16233,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions\/16233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}