{"id":21031,"date":"2011-07-13T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21031"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:01:21","slug":"when-passive-aggression-collides-with-alcoholism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21031","title":{"rendered":"When Passive-Aggression Collides With Alcoholism"},"content":{"rendered":"

The local media – who have mostly been serving as stenographers for Governor Dayton so far in this shutdown – have finally found the human interest story they needed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There’s good news and bad news:<\/p>\n

The state shutdown means Miller-Coors will have to stop selling beer in Minnesota.<\/p>\n

State officials have told the company, it must come up with a plan to remove it’s 39 brands of beer from shelves and in bars in a matter of days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lack of Miller and Coors products will be a good thing for the regional beer scene. \u00a0But this isn’t about taste – this is about Governor Dayton’s passive-aggressive tactics hitting some Minnesotans where they live; in their alcoholic hazes.<\/p>\n

The company failed to renew it’s brand license with the state before the shutdown. Each alcohol brand needs to pay a 30 dollar brand license fee. That fee is good for 3 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, a TV news story notes that Miller claims to have sent the check for the renewal. \u00a0 Miller Brewing’s brand license renewal fees were apparently not processed before the government shutdown – which is well in line with the Dayton Administration’s passive-aggressive approach to this entire fracas.<\/p>\n

Without the license, Miller-Coors cannot sell in the state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there’s your human interest angle right there. \u00a0The TV stations have been trooping into the bars, interviewing a Cantina Band full of sodden souses to grumble “Itsh time for the gummamunt to get itsh jerb done!”, and in one case, a puffy fiftysomething north-woods gretel to shriek “You people need to GROW UP and COMPROMISE!”.<\/p>\n

The pieces – clearly aimed at \u00a0the legislature, rather than the Governor – underscore a key fact of Minnesota political life; so much of it is focused on people who are hammered when they make their voting decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The local media – who have mostly been serving as stenographers for Governor Dayton so far in this shutdown – have finally found the human interest story they needed. There’s good news and bad news: The state shutdown means Miller-Coors will have to stop selling beer in Minnesota. State officials have told the company, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-21031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031","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=21031"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25338,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031\/revisions\/25338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}