{"id":19400,"date":"2011-04-18T05:24:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T11:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19400"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:36:28","slug":"apparently-the-glbt-movement-is-dead-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19400","title":{"rendered":"Apparently The GLBT Movement Is Dead, Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Strib&#8217;s <\/em>Bob Van Sternberg apparently was at the Tea Party on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He noted correctly that the attendance was down a bit; while there were 5-7,000 at the rally in 2009 and close to 2,000 last year. \u00a0There were a couple hundreds there on Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A mere shadow of its showing in recent years, the annual &#8220;tax day&#8221; rally at the state Capitol attracted only a smattering of adherents on a cold, wet afternoon Saturday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Van Sternberg is too modest.<\/p>\n<p>Cold and wet is a May drizzle.<\/p>\n<p>It was <strong>33 degrees at noon, when I spoke, and there was snow on the ground, and a cold wet wind was howling from the north giving wind chills in the teens<\/strong>. \u00a0Not prime rallying weather. \u00a0More like Valley Forge.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s an off year. \u00a0No imminent elections, no <em>serious <\/em>presidential or Senate campaigning, the Legislature is settled for another year.<\/p>\n<p>But he noted I was there:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Is the Tea Party dead because it could only bring out a couple hundred people on a cold, snowy day?&#8221; asked radio talker Mitch Berg, adding, &#8220;No, the Tea Party is watching them. The Tea Party is coming for them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the 2010 Tea Party, some in the media and left (ptr) said &#8220;look at the turnout!&#8221;. \u00a0They were wrong, of course; they multiplied by a couple orders of magnitude and showed up at the polls in November.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, an observer at the Capitol told me that attendance at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/news\/ci_17843616?source=rss&amp;nclick_check=1\">annual LGBT rally<\/a> with Governor Dayton was &#8220;way down&#8221; from previous years.<\/p>\n<p>Is it because the gay rights movement is dead?<\/p>\n<p>Or is it because it&#8217;s an off-year, and the weather was \u00a0in the fifties and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinkbananaworld.com\/content-detail.cfm?ID=449871\">wind-swept<\/a>?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Strib&#8217;s Bob Van Sternberg apparently was at the Tea Party on Saturday. He noted correctly that the attendance was down a bit; while there were 5-7,000 at the rally in 2009 and close to 2,000 last year. \u00a0There were a couple hundreds there on Saturday: A mere shadow of its showing in recent years, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,24,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-culture-war","category-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400","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=19400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19407,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions\/19407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}