{"id":20231,"date":"2011-05-24T05:22:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20231"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T19:31:58","slug":"let-the-interference-running-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=20231","title":{"rendered":"Let The Interference-Running Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Session ends and, if you believe the the media, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/122481469.html\">MNGOP spent the entire time sightseeing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All that and more must now await a special session this summer, as the Republican majority and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton ended an acrimonious five-month session with very little business done and a $5 billion projected shortfall mostly untouched.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s no sign more time in St. Paul would spark a deal to avoid a bruising government shutdown. A long season of legislating only hardened and widened the deep, bitter divide between Dayton and the new legislative leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read: The Governor used the only tactic he has: stalling, and counting on the media to shape public opinion for him.<\/p>\n<p>Expect a &#8220;Minnesota Poll&#8221; showing Minnesotans favor &#8220;compromise&#8221; 60-40, with a 3:2 oversample of DFLers.<\/p>\n<p>And probably a &#8220;Humphrey Institute&#8221; poll showing it&#8217;s more like eleventy-teen to one.<\/p>\n<p>Here you go, <em>Star Tribune<\/em> and KARE11 and Esme Murphy; it&#8217;s your moment to shine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Session ends and, if you believe the the media, the\u00a0MNGOP spent the entire time sightseeing: All that and more must now await a special session this summer, as the Republican majority and DFL Gov. Mark Dayton ended an acrimonious five-month session with very little business done and a $5 billion projected shortfall mostly untouched. There&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,132],"tags":[436,186],"class_list":["post-20231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-mn-legislature","tag-esme-murphy","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231","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=20231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25375,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20231\/revisions\/25375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}