{"id":24559,"date":"2011-11-28T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24559"},"modified":"2011-11-28T08:45:27","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T14:45:27","slug":"city-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24559","title":{"rendered":"City Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little bird in Minneapolis sent me an invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Not, it&#8217;s not to me. \u00a0It was to someone else &#8211; for a $100\/plate fundraiser for Minneapolis&#8217; Ward 3 Councilcritter Diane Hofstede, featuring Governor Dayton, Rep. Phyllis Kahn,City Council president Barbara Johnson, and a galaxy of Minneapolis DFL stars.<\/p>\n<p>Not my kind of crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting bit, though, is the stationery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/27835839@N04\/6396859409\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7173\/6396859409_a073429c26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s City of Minneapolis stationery.<\/p>\n<p>For an election fundraiser, this coming Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Is this kosher?<\/p>\n<p>Or is this just another of the petty little bits of corruption that attend life in a one-party city?<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0I&#8217;m informed that the letter and the use of the letterhead\u00a0<em>is <\/em>kosher. \u00a0It says &#8220;not printed at taxpayers expense&#8221; in the lower left corner.<\/p>\n<p>That answers that question&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little bird in Minneapolis sent me an invitation. Not, it&#8217;s not to me. \u00a0It was to someone else &#8211; for a $100\/plate fundraiser for Minneapolis&#8217; Ward 3 Councilcritter Diane Hofstede, featuring Governor Dayton, Rep. Phyllis Kahn,City Council president Barbara Johnson, and a galaxy of Minneapolis DFL stars. Not my kind of crowd. The interesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24559","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=24559"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24561,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24559\/revisions\/24561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}