{"id":18274,"date":"2011-02-21T08:35:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18274"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T21:05:05","slug":"the-incredible-shrinking-governor-back-in-the-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=18274","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Shrinking Governor: Back In The Closet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy LaRoche had a conversation with a MN State Senator &#8211; and was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/elections\/governor\/15655-governors-office-or-panic-room.html\">amazed at what she heard<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most remarkable comments the Senator made was how Governor Mark Dayton has transformed his office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/elections\/governor\/15655-governors-office-or-panic-room.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/looktruenorthsmall140.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He installed cubicles into his office space for staff, and moved his office into&#8230; a closet. My first reaction was, &#8220;that sounds like a panic room.&#8221; The Senator replied that some Democrat legislators are struggling with how to work with him. This office space raised my concerns for his handling of leadership, and the location sounds like a physical way to insulate himself. The State Senator is also wondering about the state of Dayton&#8217;s mental state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True North is going to be looking for more on this.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, some more meaningful shrinkage, if you&#8217;re a Minnesota taxpayer; <strong>not a single DFL legislator, as of yesterday, had sponsored the Dayton budget in the Legislature<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That could change at any \u00a0moment, of course.<\/p>\n<p>But this budget has been on the record for nearly a week, now.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 Dayton&#8217;s office was noted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/state\/113820404.html\">in a <em>Strib <\/em>piece a month back<\/a>.\u00a0 According to the story, he prefers a small, spartan office.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on whether he prefers small, spartan support for his budget among the DFL caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nancy LaRoche had a conversation with a MN State Senator &#8211; and was\u00a0amazed at what she heard: One of the most remarkable comments the Senator made was how Governor Mark Dayton has transformed his office. He installed cubicles into his office space for staff, and moved his office into&#8230; a closet. My first reaction was, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274","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=18274"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18312,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18274\/revisions\/18312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}