{"id":26246,"date":"2012-02-16T12:15:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26246"},"modified":"2012-02-16T12:15:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T18:15:51","slug":"all-things-amended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26246","title":{"rendered":"All Things Amended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Remember 4 years ago, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arts.state.mn.us\/grants\/machf.htm \">the Minnesota Constitution was amended<\/a> to provide dedicated funding for clean water and stuff?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/about\/mpr\/legacy-amendment-projects\/ \">Guess who gets that funding<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>From their website:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMinnesota Public Radio is the state&#8217;s largest cultural organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, if \u201cLiberal\u201d is a culture, that\u2019s certainly true. Do we need to spend tax dollars to preserve Liberalism? Isn\u2019t it doing well enough on its own?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, MPR&#8217;s certainly got their hooks into the regional money system.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just remembering all the articles this past week from learned &#8220;progressive&#8221;-leaning political scientists who said &#8220;government by amendment isn&#8217;t governing&#8221;, and wondering where they all were four years ago?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: Remember 4 years ago, when the Minnesota Constitution was amended to provide dedicated funding for clean water and stuff? Guess who gets that funding? From their website: \u201cMinnesota Public Radio is the state&#8217;s largest cultural organization.\u201d Well, if \u201cLiberal\u201d is a culture, that\u2019s certainly true. Do we need to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246","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=26246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26247,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26246\/revisions\/26247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}