{"id":2231,"date":"2008-03-07T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2008-03-07T07:04:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T12:04:54","slug":"whos-shading-the-downey-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Shading the Downey Campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday, I wrote about this curious postcard that a correspondent in Edina recieved:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3271\/2314824631_c4168fa9da.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And on back&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2329\/2314824633_1e3762984e.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I got this email along with the attachment.  The email is from a known, Republican source who is highly familiar with both the Downey campaign and GOP politics in the area:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today in mailboxes in Edina, delegates to Saturday\u2019s endorsing convention for HD41A received a misleading postcard, clearly intended to suppress turnout of Keith Downey supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Keith is NOT running for Hennepin County Commissioner and is going full tilt at the endorsement on Saturday in spite of this desperate attempt to derail his campaign.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To the casual observer, this appears to be a dirty trick, intended to confuse people as the endorsement battle reaches its climax tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Did anyone else in Edina see this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late yesterday, I wrote about this curious postcard that a correspondent in Edina recieved: And on back&#8230;: I got this email along with the attachment. The email is from a known, Republican source who is highly familiar with both the Downey campaign and GOP politics in the area: Today in mailboxes in Edina, delegates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}