{"id":26777,"date":"2012-03-09T07:44:46","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26777"},"modified":"2012-03-09T07:44:46","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T13:44:46","slug":"right-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26777","title":{"rendered":"Right To Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t want to become one of those blogs that carry party press releases (I very rarely do this) and is all about calling people to one kind of action or another.<\/p>\n

But this blog has always been about grassroots politics – mine, sure, but everyone else’s as well.<\/p>\n

Anyway – the Right to Work amendment gets its hearing the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday.<\/p>\n

I have it on good authority that some of the more moderate Republicans on the committee are getting a little squishy on this amendment. \u00a0They are afraid of all the union money that’s going to come into the state. \u00a0Fact is, the union money will always be there – but with RTW legislation popping up everywhere, it’s going to be spread a lot <\/em>thinner than it will be in two or four years. \u00a0If not now, when?<\/p>\n

So if you’ve got a senator on the committee<\/a>, give ’em a call. \u00a0Encourage them to support the Right to Work amendment. \u00a0Encourage ’em to remember why they got sent there – and if it’s not a Freshman in the Senate, also encourage ’em to remember how they got the majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t want to become one of those blogs that carry party press releases (I very rarely do this) and is all about calling people to one kind of action or another. But this blog has always been about grassroots politics – mine, sure, but everyone else’s as well. Anyway – the Right to Work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[197],"class_list":["post-26777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","tag-right-to-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777","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=26777"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26779,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26777\/revisions\/26779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}