{"id":25746,"date":"2012-01-20T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25746"},"modified":"2012-01-20T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T12:00:28","slug":"almost-missed-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=25746","title":{"rendered":"Almost Missed This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy Greiling (DFL Roseville) is also apparently tired of being in the minority, and is <a style=\"color: #1b8be0; font: normal normal normal 15px\/normal 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.625; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/137592908.html\">going to retire from the House<\/a>\u00a0after this session, according to the<em>\u00a0Strib<\/em>:\u00a0.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 10-term lawmaker announced Wednesday that she won&#8217;t seek re-election in the fall. She first came to the Legislature in 1993 and became one of the Capitol&#8217;s lead voices on education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Help me out here &#8211; has education gotten better in the past ten years, or worse?<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, I digress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Greiling, of Roseville, served as chairwoman of the House Education Finance Committee when Democrats were in the majority.<\/p>\n<p>November&#8217;s election will decide who serves in all 134 House and 67 Senate seats. Republicans currently control both chambers by narrow margins.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That opens a potential opportunity for the GOP. \u00a0While Roseville is traditionally liberal &#8211; they keep sending John Marty to the Senate &#8211; open seats and changing populations certainly help. \u00a0Mark Fotsch has been running a campaign for the seat since early in the 2010 cycle, and hasn&#8217;t stopped; he&#8217;ll be running for the nomination, and taking his best shot at the seat this fall.<\/p>\n<p>More in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mindy Greiling (DFL Roseville) is also apparently tired of being in the minority, and is going to retire from the House\u00a0after this session, according to the\u00a0Strib:\u00a0. The 10-term lawmaker announced Wednesday that she won&#8217;t seek re-election in the fall. She first came to the Legislature in 1993 and became one of the Capitol&#8217;s lead voices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746","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=25746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25749,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25746\/revisions\/25749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}