{"id":19214,"date":"2011-04-06T06:33:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19214"},"modified":"2011-04-06T06:33:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T12:33:13","slug":"the-two-minute-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19214","title":{"rendered":"The Two-Minute Drill"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you know – because I keep telling you – I’m volunteering for the Copeland for Senate<\/a> campaign in the SD66 Special Election.<\/p>\n

Which is coming up Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Here’s the deal: the DFL isn’t doing any <\/em>campaigning to speak of. \u00a0Indeed, I think they have <\/em>to avoid campaigning; to have to actually work <\/em>in a special election would mean they knew their claim “we own Saint Paul” was hollow. \u00a0 Former sta. te representative Betty Jo McGuire seems to be running her “campaign” entirely behind the scenes<\/p>\n

Which means this thing is winnable. \u00a0It won’t be easy – it’ll involve getting every single Republican in SD66 to turn out<\/em> next Tuesday.<\/p>\n

If you are a Republican in SD88 – or a Democrat who’s sick of the way your party is abusing our state – then your mission is clear; show up and vote Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But wherever you live, you can help out.<\/p>\n

The campaign is looking for volunteers, for door-knocking and especially <\/em>for phone- banking, for Thursday through Monday. \u00a0If you can help, here’s how you can get involved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And fighting the DFL machine costs money; if you can spare a few bucks<\/a>, the campaign appreciates every nickel; if Greg wins, you’ll make it back in tax savings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you know – because I keep telling you – I’m volunteering for the Copeland for Senate campaign in the SD66 Special Election. Which is coming up Tuesday. Here’s the deal: the DFL isn’t doing any campaigning to speak of. \u00a0Indeed, I think they have to avoid campaigning; to have to actually work in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214","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=19214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19216,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19214\/revisions\/19216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}