{"id":25192,"date":"2012-01-03T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25192"},"modified":"2014-11-28T04:42:31","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T10:42:31","slug":"hey-no-fair-reporting-on-the-dfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25192","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hey, No Fair Reporting On The DFL!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">For all of the talk about the GOP&#8217;s debt, Tom Scheck at MPR notes that the\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/polinaut\/archive\/2011\/12\/dfl_in_the_red.shtml\">DFL is also the red<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There has been a lot of attention given to the finances of the Republican Party. It should be noted, however, that the DFL Party is also facing a debt.<\/p>\n<p>DFL Party Chair Ken Martin said the party has a debt of roughly $210 thousand heading into 2012. Martin said the party had a debt of $750 thousand at the start of 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not huge news &#8211; this blog reported on the $750K debt years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The funny part is reading the comments in the MPR piece. \u00a0 You get the impression that a lot of DFLers are shocked that the press would bother with the DFL. \u00a0Further proof, I think, that Democrats <em>expect <\/em>the media to be on their side, when push comes to shove.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s part of the reason Twin Cities DFLers seem to be unable to meet conservatives in a ratoinal debate, ever; their entire worldview is formed by schools, colleges and a media that barely recognizes alternatives to the left exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of the talk about the GOP&#8217;s debt, Tom Scheck at MPR notes that the\u00a0DFL is also the red: There has been a lot of attention given to the finances of the Republican Party. It should be noted, however, that the DFL Party is also facing a debt. DFL Party Chair Ken Martin said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,130,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-tc-media-bias","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192","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=25192"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25195,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25192\/revisions\/25195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}