{"id":2407,"date":"2008-04-09T05:25:43","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T10:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2008-04-08T20:01:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T01:01:48","slug":"note-to-dave-thune-puke-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2407","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas, Minneapolis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are, by nature, a fairly good-tempered lot.  Especially in Saint Paul.  You have to be, living in a city where one of your key government figures thinks &#8211; and says, in friendly surroundings &#8211; that you, the Republican, are a drunken lout.<\/p>\n<p>But eventually, even we can be pushed too far.   I got this email from a source in the know about these things:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" id=\"role_document\">After Thune&#8217;s comments two major players in the bar\/restaurant scene lost  huge contracts. One was a $50,000 dinner and another was a $800,000  party&#8230;<span id=\"lw_1207689878_0\" class=\"yshortcuts\">Minneapolis<\/span> was happy to have them and their lobbyists, puking or  not.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font><font size=\"3\" face=\"Arial\" color=\"#000000\" id=\"role_document\" \/><\/font> $850,000 at Saint Paul&#8217;s 7.5% Sales Tax rate comes to $59,500.<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Thune; that&#8217;s money that could have helped ameliorate some of the taxes you&#8217;ve been jacking up in this city.<\/p>\n<p>Care to puke <em>that <\/em>up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are, by nature, a fairly good-tempered lot. Especially in Saint Paul. You have to be, living in a city where one of your key government figures thinks &#8211; and says, in friendly surroundings &#8211; that you, the Republican, are a drunken lout. But eventually, even we can be pushed too far. I got this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,35,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-money","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","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=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}