To: Dave Senjem, Kurt Zellers and the rest of the Legislative GOP Caucuses
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Conservative Pugilist Without Portfolio
\nRe: WTF?<\/p>\n
I was talking with a fairly prominent GOP\/conservative activist the other day. \u00a0He noted that some of you are getting squishy on some core conservative issues – specifically “Right To Work”.<\/p>\n
You’re nervous about the amount of money the “labor” movement is going to spend against against you this fall if you pursue this issue.<\/p>\n
My question: \u00a0If not now, when? \u00a0The “labor” movement is spread incredibly thin this year; they’re fighting “Right to Work” in a slew of states, all of them “must-wins” for them. \u00a0They have a lot of ill-gotten money, it’s true – but they’ll be playing whack-a-mole in a whole bunch of legislatures. \u00a0Next session, and 2014, they will not be.<\/p>\n
You were sent to Saint Paul in an epic reversal of fortune from the previous two cycles; you went from plucky but almost irrelevant minority to solid majority in one election.<\/p>\n
I’m going to suggest to you that the voters didn’t do that because of anything connoted with the term “Republican Party of MInnesota”, or because they wanted Lori Sturdevant to approve of you. \u00a0They threw out the Democrats because you took a courageous stance on the stump, and convinced the voters that they didn’t want Democrats passing the laws.<\/p>\n
They did it because the Cauci proposed to change things in this state, and the voters believed them.<\/p>\n
So deliver.<\/p>\n
That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To: Dave Senjem, Kurt Zellers and the rest of the Legislative GOP Caucuses From: Mitch Berg, Conservative Pugilist Without Portfolio Re: WTF? I was talking with a fairly prominent GOP\/conservative activist the other day. \u00a0He noted that some of you are getting squishy on some core conservative issues – specifically “Right To Work”. You’re nervous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,132],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-26714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-mn-legislature","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714","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=26714"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33730,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions\/33730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}