{"id":1881,"date":"2008-01-01T05:39:04","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T10:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2011-10-20T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T15:27:37","slug":"to-spike-the-ball-and-dance-tastelessly-in-the-end-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"To Spike The Ball And Dance Tastelessly In The End Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, there&#8217;s going to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/component\/content\/article\/75-state-senate\/1373-cox-raises-almost-40000-for-sd-25-special-election-dfl-candidates-report-isnt-available-on-cfboards-website.html\">special election in Minnesota Senate District 25<\/a>.  Republican Ray Cox is taking on DFLer Kevin Dahle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/component\/content\/article\/75-state-senate\/1373-cox-raises-almost-40000-for-sd-25-special-election-dfl-candidates-report-isnt-available-on-cfboards-website.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/images\/FreedomDogs\/looktruenorthsmall140.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brodkorb has the latest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.looktruenorth.com\/component\/content\/article\/75-state-senate\/1373-cox-raises-almost-40000-for-sd-25-special-election-dfl-candidates-report-isnt-available-on-cfboards-website.html\">True North<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2007\/12\/30\/cox-raises-almost-40000-for-sd-25-special-election-dfl-candidates-report-isnt-available\">MDE<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is worth noting that Republican-endorsed <a href=\"http:\/\/raycox.net\/\">Ray Cox<\/a> has raised nearly $40,000 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cfbreport.state.mn.us\/pdfStorage\/2008\/CampFin\/B\/16659S.pdf\">to be exact &#8211; $39,885<\/a>) for the special election in SD 25 this Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, DFL-endorsed Kevin Dahle may be embarrassed because his fundraising numbers haven&#8217;t been posted on the campaign finance board&#8217;s website.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ray Cox is not, as far as I&#8217;ve seen, a solid conservative &#8211; but he&#8217;s the GOPer that&#8217;s showed up.  Getting conservatives in office <em>is <\/em>goal #1, of course (for me, at least), but growing the GOP caucus isn&#8217;t far behind.<\/p>\n<p>So if you live in District 25 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gis.leg.mn\/l2002\/pdf\/25.pdf\">Map<\/a> &#8211; PDF alert!) &#8211; the Rice\/LeSeuer County area &#8211; you need to get out to the polls Thursday and make sure you vote early and often.  Crushing the DFL candidate <strike>in the heart of Tim Walz&#8217;s district<\/strike> [SD25 is in CD2?  Who knew?] would be a great way to kick off the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, there&#8217;s going to be a special election in Minnesota Senate District 25. Republican Ray Cox is taking on DFLer Kevin Dahle. Brodkorb has the latest at True North and MDE: It is worth noting that Republican-endorsed Ray Cox has raised nearly $40,000 (to be exact &#8211; $39,885) for the special election in SD 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,155],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-congressional","tag-mn-cd1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","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=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23749,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/23749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}