{"id":16907,"date":"2010-12-31T12:02:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T18:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16907"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:38:38","slug":"the-dayton-dust-bowl-not-ready-for-prime-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=16907","title":{"rendered":"The Dayton Dust Bowl:  Not Ready For Prime Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MDE&#8217;s Andy Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2010\/12\/29\/dayton-appoints-sue-haigh-chair-of-met-council\/\">on Dayton&#8217;s appointment of Sue Haigh <\/a>&#8211; former Ramco Commissioner and Registered Spending Offender &#8211; to head the Met Council:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?cat=117\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4108\/4952020177_a626ccd1ff_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Susan Haigh spent 10 years as a Ramsey Commissioner (1995-2005) and once proposed a 45% pay increase for herself and other board members.<\/p>\n<p>Like Dayton, Haigh has also received disproportional amounts of campaign contributions from labor unions. Below is a part of her list of contributors from the 2002 re-elect campaign for Commissioner. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.ramsey.mn.us\/elections\/docs\/campaignFinance\/2002reports\/haigh(02preelection10-30-02).pdf\">Full report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Haigh-Campaign-Contributions-2002-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em> 2002 Haigh campaign contributors partial list, courtesy MDE<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dayton\u2019s work on his cabinet contradicts what he told the Star Tribune in early December, where he stated he would likely appoint his Management and Budget commissioner and his Revenue commissioner given the tough budget work ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saying something and doing the opposite; as we learned during the extended back-and-forth over his budget proposals during the campaign, it&#8217;s something can get used to from Dayton.<\/p>\n<p>Post also notes&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since that story was published, Dayton has appointed few commissioners, not including M&amp;B or Revenue. However, he has had time to thoroughly plan his blue jeans inaugural ball, which has had wall to wall press coverage. Will the Governor-elect be prepared to lead Minnesota on January 3rd without a functioning cabinet?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps he thinks the SEIU and &#8220;Alliance For A Better Minnesota&#8221; will do all of the cabinetry for him.<\/p>\n<p>More on Dayton cabinet appointments later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDE&#8217;s Andy Post on Dayton&#8217;s appointment of Sue Haigh &#8211; former Ramco Commissioner and Registered Spending Offender &#8211; to head the Met Council: Susan Haigh spent 10 years as a Ramsey Commissioner (1995-2005) and once proposed a 45% pay increase for herself and other board members. Like Dayton, Haigh has also received disproportional amounts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-16907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907","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=16907"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47810,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16907\/revisions\/47810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}