{"id":25551,"date":"2012-01-13T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25551"},"modified":"2012-01-13T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T12:52:00","slug":"if-i-were-speaker-zellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25551","title":{"rendered":"If I Were Speaker Zellers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and it&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;m not<em>&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but if I <em>were <\/em>Speaker Zellers, and <del>Governor Dayton<\/del> Alita Messinger and the SEIU brought Dayton&#8217;s Jerbs Bill to the House of Representatives to submit, I might respond something like this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With all due respect to Governor Dayton, there are laws against using the Legislature for campaign purposes. \u00a0And that&#8217;s all this bill is; a meaningless campaign slogan dressed up as a tax bill. \u00a0If this bill goes forward, the Campaign Finance Board will have to investigate the House of Representatives for making an illegal in-kind contribution to 134 DFL house races this fall. \u00a0Because that&#8217;s all this bill is, and that&#8217;s all it was ever intended to be&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Again &#8211; it&#8217;s probably a good thing I&#8217;m not the Speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;and it&#8217;s a good thing I&#8217;m not&#8230; &#8230;but if I were Speaker Zellers, and Governor Dayton Alita Messinger and the SEIU brought Dayton&#8217;s Jerbs Bill to the House of Representatives to submit, I might respond something like this. &#8220;With all due respect to Governor Dayton, there are laws against using the Legislature for campaign purposes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,123,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551","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=25551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25554,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions\/25554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}