I wrote this to my City Council Rep yesterday:<\/p>\n
———-<\/p>\n
Mr. Stark, Mitch Berg here. I’m a constituent of yours…<\/p>\n
…sorry. I had to go clean up after another spell of “puking”. And I apologize if my spelling suffers; as I’m a Republican, the delerium tremens makes it hard to type whenever I’m not hammered out of my mind.<\/p>\n
I’m writing on behalf of the 28-40% of Saint Paulites who vote Republican, but whom you and Council Prez Dave Thune represent in city government…<\/p>\n
…oh, damn. Hang on. Gotta puke…<\/p>\n
…Sorry. Where was I? Oh, yeah – Republicans who, when we rouse ourselves from our drunken stupor, somehow manage to pay taxes and raise kids when we’re
\nnot vomiting in Dave Thune’s daisies.<\/p>\n
All joking aside – it’s a little disconcerting to read that the *elected leader* of the city to whom I pay taxes has such a caustically hateful opinion of over a third of his city’s residents. Is it any wonder that people are leaving, pulling their kids out of the
\nschool system, and taking their entertainment and shopping dollar elsewhere?<\/p>\n
Mitch Berg Now I really DO need a drink.<\/p>\n ———-<\/p>\n It’s true.<\/p>\n To be fair, Stark voted against the extension in bar hours – although his stated reasons weren’t anything I’d disagree with. There are, frankly, reasons to oppose the extension; one of them is not <\/em>that Republican activists and staffers are going to turn Saint Paul into a huge frat party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote this to my City Council Rep yesterday: ———- Mr. Stark, Mitch Berg here. I’m a constituent of yours… …sorry. I had to go clean up after another spell of “puking”. And I apologize if my spelling suffers; as I’m a Republican, the delerium tremens makes it hard to type whenever I’m not hammered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","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=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMinnehaha and Pascal
\n21-year Saint Paul taxpayer, who’s raised\/is raising three kids here, is a GOP<\/span> district officer, and is sick to death of a city that treats me like a ripe suck on the one hand and a hated adversary on the other.<\/p>\n