{"id":23453,"date":"2011-10-12T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23453"},"modified":"2011-10-12T16:06:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T21:06:32","slug":"ramco-just-to-be-clear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23453","title":{"rendered":"Ramco: Just To Be Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s make sure we’re clear on what happened at the Ramsey County Charter Commission last night.<\/p>\n

The 10-8 vote did not <\/em>impose a tax \u00a0It rejected <\/em>an amendment\u00a0the county charter that would have allowed <\/em>a referendum on the Ramco Commission’s agreement with the Vikings to ask the state to exempt the plan from a referendum on a sales tax hike to pay for the stadium – which is contrary to state law and the county’s charter.<\/p>\n

There are really only four things, now, that can come between Ramco’s taxpayers and a generation of paying Wilfare:<\/p>\n

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  1. If your state legislator supports this boondoggle – a give-away to Zygi Wilf and the DFL’s trade-union water-carriers – they need to hear from you.<\/li>\n
  2. The downtown “Brotherhood” will have to find a way to steal the project for downtown Minneapolis. \u00a0Don’t rule this out.<\/li>\n
  3. The Ramco Commission needs to hear from we, the residents, that this must not pass. \u00a0I doubt it’ll work, but it’s worth at try.<\/li>\n
  4. Ramsey County voters will need to wake up and realize what a bunch of hamsters the DFL-dominated Ramco Commission is.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Let’s make sure we’re clear on what happened at the Ramsey County Charter Commission last night. The 10-8 vote did not impose a tax \u00a0It rejected an amendment\u00a0the county charter that would have allowed a referendum on the Ramco Commission’s agreement with the Vikings to ask the state to exempt the plan from a referendum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453","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=23453"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23455,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23453\/revisions\/23455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}