{"id":17961,"date":"2011-02-09T05:43:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T11:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17961"},"modified":"2011-02-09T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T12:57:38","slug":"dfl-waves-the-bloody-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=17961","title":{"rendered":"DFL Waves The Bloody Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a DFLer means never wasting \u00a0a crisis &#8211; or a tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota DFL is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/190784\/\">seizing on and exploiting the Tuscon Massacre<\/a> in the special election campaign in House District 5B (Tony Sertich&#8217;s old seat):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A campaign brochure for Republican state legislative candidate Paul Jacobson depicting a hunter looking down a shotgun and urging voters to \u201ctake your best shot\u2019\u2019 while criticizing opponent Carly Melin has sparked outrage from some supporters of the DFL candidate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the brochure:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/media\/story\/jpg\/2011\/02\/07\/gun0208_300px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scary stuff, huh? A <em>hunter<\/em>, in his Elmer Fudd hat, holding a <em>hunting shotgun. <\/em>Just like most Iron Rangers do during hunting season.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if anyone is implying Carly Melin is, perhaps, rising out of a swamp and getting ready to fly south &#8211; most DFL memes really don&#8217;t make much sense.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The brochure, mailed this week to residents of Minnesota House District 5B, shows a person looking down the barrel and urges people to vote in the Feb. 15 special election to fill the open seat.<\/p>\n<p>While the gun is not pointed at anything or anyone in particular, Melin\u2019s photo is on the next page. The ad also calls Melin \u201ca fake\u2019\u2019 and states that her campaign is \u201cfull of holes.\u2019\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to get the message; &#8220;criticizing the DFL in any way is a threat&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gary Cerkvenik, a longtime Iron Range DFL political activist and now a volunteer for Melin\u2019s campaign, said the ad is eerily similar to attack ads last year that depicted several Democratic members of Congress in crosshairs. The ads were harshly panned after the attempted assassination of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last month in Tucson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And Gary Cerkvenik is &#8220;eerily similar&#8221; to a smart person, but he doesn&#8217;t quite pull it off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a DFLer means never wasting \u00a0a crisis &#8211; or a tragedy. The Minnesota DFL is seizing on and exploiting the Tuscon Massacre in the special election campaign in House District 5B (Tony Sertich&#8217;s old seat): A campaign brochure for Republican state legislative candidate Paul Jacobson depicting a hunter looking down a shotgun and urging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-slander-files"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961","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=17961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17963,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17961\/revisions\/17963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}