{"id":2580,"date":"2008-05-17T16:12:03","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T21:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2008-05-17T16:12:03","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T21:12:03","slug":"i-dont-do-action-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2580","title":{"rendered":"I Don’t Do “Action Alerts”…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…but I’d like to direct you to the campaigns of our two NARN2 guests today – Barb Davis White<\/a>, who is the GOP-endorsed candidate for Congress in the Fifth Congressional District…<\/p>\n

…and Tom Effertz<\/a>, who is running to win back District 54B, in the north-east ‘burbs of Saint Paul.<\/p>\n

By the way – I got flak from both sides over my post last week asking for CD2 Republicans to peel off a couple of bucks for the likes of candidate White in the Fifth and Ed Matthews<\/a> in the Fourth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The flak from the left – as with this post from leftyblog Cardiopulmonary Patient in a Red District<\/a><\/em> – was pretty ludicrous stuff, essentially saying “Republicans should just give up, since we’ve won these districts every election since the Truman Administration”.\u00a0 Sorry, Blue – I don’t believe in sinecures, and I do relish a good fight against a self-satisfied, smug, overconfident foe, since it makes the eventual victory all the sweeter.<\/p>\n

Some of the flak from the right hit a little closer to home; little birds tell me that some of the CD2 leadership wasn’t happy with me.\u00a0 They’re right not to give in to complacency – it’s a lousy year for any <\/em>Republican in Congress to feel complacent, even when up against a train wreck like Al Franken (or, maybe, a punchline like Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer).\u00a0 But let’s do be realistic; even Democrat talking heads are\u00a0advising<\/a> “sell<\/a>” on Sarvi<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0And Michele Bachmann is going to go over Elwyn “E-Tink” Tinklenberg like it’s\u00a0a prison shower-room beatdown, and that’s even if <\/em>“Dump Bachmann” isn’t a high-profile voice in the campaign (and if they are, tack on another point or two for the incumbent).\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Minnesota will never really join the 21st century until the GOP contests the urban 4th and 5th Districts.\u00a0 Now – with sharp, articulate candidates like White and Matthews, who will shred <\/em>the hapless-outside-of-friendly-rooms Ellison and the brittle, incoherent McCollum in debates and on policy – is as good a time as any to start trying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…but I’d like to direct you to the campaigns of our two NARN2 guests today – Barb Davis White, who is the GOP-endorsed candidate for Congress in the Fifth Congressional District… …and Tom Effertz, who is running to win back District 54B, in the north-east ‘burbs of Saint Paul. By the way – I got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","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=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}