{"id":21159,"date":"2011-07-19T10:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T16:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21159"},"modified":"2012-01-06T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:01:21","slug":"and-theyre-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21159","title":{"rendered":"And They&#8217;re Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around 11ish, Governor Dayton launched the special session to bang out a new state budget.<\/p>\n<p>The good news; \u00a0while the MNGOP, and conservatives, are unhappy with the fact that we&#8217;re &#8220;borrowing&#8221; $1.4 Billion more than the state has in revenues (from the next biennium&#8217;s revenues), the compromise seems likely to include some things that were &#8220;hills to die on&#8221;, rhetorically speaking, for conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The big ones, for me and many other conservatives: Zero Based Budgeting and King Banaian&#8217;s Sunset Commissions; some sort of move toward Voter ID would be great as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s high time you called your legislators &#8211; both GOP and, if you live in a swing-y district, the DFL ones as well. \u00a0They need to know where the people stand; goodness knows the Unions will have their people lighting up the switchboards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around 11ish, Governor Dayton launched the special session to bang out a new state budget. The good news; \u00a0while the MNGOP, and conservatives, are unhappy with the fact that we&#8217;re &#8220;borrowing&#8221; $1.4 Billion more than the state has in revenues (from the next biennium&#8217;s revenues), the compromise seems likely to include some things that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[186],"class_list":["post-21159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-shutdownpocalypse-2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159","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=21159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25330,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21159\/revisions\/25330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}