Minnesota is heading for a battle over redistricting that may just make the just-passed budget battle look like a stroll in the park.<\/p>\n
And, just like with every such battle lately in Minnesota, there is at least one “non-partisan” non-profit claiming to have the interests of average, non-affiliated Minnesotans at heart. \u00a0There are a couple of reasons for this; for starters, the Minnesota DFL is a largely impotent organization;<\/p>\n
In the 2010 elections, of course, it was “Alliance for a Better Minnesota” and a small circle of other groups – “The 2010 Fund” \u00a0– a group that funnelled millions of dollars from unions, the Dayton family, and their cronies to try to win the election for Mark Dayton (largely by running a toxic sleaze campaign). \u00a0Their power in “progressive” circles is remarkable; Governor Dayton has brought a fair number of ABM’s staffers to work in his office; the former head of the “2010 Fund”, Ken Martin, now runs the DFL.<\/p>\n
And for the redistricting battle? \u00a0The new astroturf group is “Draw The Line”, an organization that spans several states<\/a> where the Democrats are fighting for their organizational lives, including Minnesota<\/a>.<\/p>\n So who’s behind “Draw the Line?” \u00a0And what are they after – and by “they”, I don’t mean “Draw The Line”, so much as the people behind them?<\/p>\n More next week here on Shot In The Dark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minnesota is heading for a battle over redistricting that may just make the just-passed budget battle look like a stroll in the park. And, just like with every such battle lately in Minnesota, there is at least one “non-partisan” non-profit claiming to have the interests of average, non-affiliated Minnesotans at heart. \u00a0There are a couple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,63,132,320,51],"tags":[115,169],"class_list":["post-21701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-lefty-alt-media","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","tag-abm","tag-draw-the-line-mn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21701","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=21701"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49468,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21701\/revisions\/49468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}