{"id":21739,"date":"2011-08-15T05:34:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T10:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21739"},"modified":"2011-08-14T10:53:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T15:53:13","slug":"common-cause-lying-again-part-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=21739","title":{"rendered":"Common Cause, Lying Again (Part IV)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter account for &#8220;Common Cause MN&#8221; &#8211; the stealth-progressive astroturf group that campaigns for speech rationing and higher taxes &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/commoncausemn\/status\/102469904330002434\">commented <\/a>on the Iowa GOP caucus on Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Did you know that people have to pay to vote in Ames Straw Poll? That&#8217;s messed up! #stribpol<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Promptly, other Twin Cities lefties added &#8220;it&#8217;s like a poll tax!&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;apparently unaware that the Iowa Straw Poll is a<em>\u00a0GOP event. \u00a0<\/em>Not an election. \u00a0Not a caucus or primary that determines who goes on the ballot. \u00a0It&#8217;s a fundraiser and PR event.<\/p>\n<p>I pondered asking them if they knew that party caucus events charge admission, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.but I don&#8217;t want to have anyone popping any aneurysms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter account for &#8220;Common Cause MN&#8221; &#8211; the stealth-progressive astroturf group that campaigns for speech rationing and higher taxes &#8211; commented on the Iowa GOP caucus on Saturday: Did you know that people have to pay to vote in Ames Straw Poll? That&#8217;s messed up! #stribpol Promptly, other Twin Cities lefties added &#8220;it&#8217;s like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-21739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-common-cause"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739","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=21739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21747,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739\/revisions\/21747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}