Joe Doakes of Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
The state government is shut down because the Legislature and Governor can\u2019t agree on an extra couple of billion to fund it; meanwhile, the billion-dollar stadium deal is all but done (St. Paul\u2019s tantrum won\u2019t change anything, they\u2019re just pouting because Arden Hills got the glory this time).<\/p>\n
Is the public insane? If we can\u2019t keep state government doors open and lights on, how in Hell can we afford a new stadium?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
For the same reason families who can barely make their mortgages somehow manage to squeedge out the money for snowmobiles…:<\/p>\n
No, the public is not insane, they\u2019re completely rational. They know the vast majority of state spending is welfare and welfare is boring. Football is fun and a new stadium is exciting. People would enjoy spending that billion much more than the other.<\/p>\n
\u201cShut down the government, build a stadium instead.\u201d<\/p>\n
We should make signs and go stand on the Capital lawn. How\u2019s Friday work for you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’ll be at the Dubliner.<\/p>\n
Wearing my Bears T-shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes of Como Park emails: The state government is shut down because the Legislature and Governor can\u2019t agree on an extra couple of billion to fund it; meanwhile, the billion-dollar stadium deal is all but done (St. Paul\u2019s tantrum won\u2019t change anything, they\u2019re just pouting because Arden Hills got the glory this time). Is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952","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=20952"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20956,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions\/20956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}