{"id":16803,"date":"2010-12-28T07:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-28T13:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16803"},"modified":"2010-12-27T20:07:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-28T02:07:02","slug":"the-journalist-full-employment-act-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16803","title":{"rendered":"The Journalist Full-Employment Act Of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I fisked a Lori Sturdevant column<\/a>.\u00a0 Not for the first time, and not for the last time.<\/p>\n

But I missed something.<\/p>\n

Among Sturdevant’s pleas – a bit from a group calling itself the “Civic Caucus” – demanding that the GOP-controlled legislature get its budget and revenue proposals in front of the Governor (and, naturally, the media that put him there) bright and early in the session.<\/p>\n

Sturdevant called “Civic Caucus” a “non-partisan” group of “Seasoned Policy Wonks”.\u00a0 I took the liberty of checking<\/a>; they are no more “non-partisan” than I am, only pretty universally either DFLers or Carlson-era RINOs.<\/p>\n

Still, that doesn’t in and of itself invalidate them.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, since it was <\/em>Sturdevant doing the writing, it did in fact occur to me – if Lori Sturdevant wants the GOP majority to put in a budget by April 1 – or March 1, or whenever – that strikes me as a prima facie reason to get it to the governor along about May 20 or so.\u00a0 To provide it any earlier would merely give the DFL’s retainers and henchpeople in the media time to try to fight the PR war against the budget, on the DFL’s behalf.\u00a0 Why give the DFL and media (pardon the redundancy) seven to eleven weeks of lead time?<\/p>\n

I’m not sure when the GOP majority had it in mind to produce a budget.\u00a0 But I’m thinking if Sturdevant wants it sooner, then “later” is a fine plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I fisked a Lori Sturdevant column.\u00a0 Not for the first time, and not for the last time. But I missed something. Among Sturdevant’s pleas – a bit from a group calling itself the “Civic Caucus” – demanding that the GOP-controlled legislature get its budget and revenue proposals in front of the Governor (and, naturally, […]<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803","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=16803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16805,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16803\/revisions\/16805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}