{"id":26990,"date":"2012-03-22T12:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26990"},"modified":"2012-03-22T15:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T20:59:44","slug":"not-to-repeat-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26990","title":{"rendered":"Not To Repeat Myself&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I&#8217;m going to repeat myself. \u00a0It&#8217;s a paragraph from a post I wrote last night for this morning. \u00a0As I wrote it, I thought the paragraph stood up as a post on its own.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Ritchie claims that something like a fifth of all Minnesota adults lacks an ID for one reason or another. \u00a0(He&#8217;s referring to driver&#8217;s licenses. \u00a0Which is its own bit of misleading rhetoric; the DFL is trying to convince the not-so-savvy &#8211; the DFL base, really &#8211; that voting would require some ID above and beyond a driver&#8217;s license). \u00a0The numbers are BS, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u00a0I&#8217;m wondering if I am alone among all of the people in Minnesota who has to have an ID to drive a car, open a savings account, enroll my kids in school, buy a firearm or ammunition, buy alcohol, open a safe deposit box, get medical treatment, pick up a prescription,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26971#comments\">turn oneself in for an outstanding warrant<\/a>, adopt a pet, get your pet out of the pound, pay a traffic ticket, use a credit card, write a check, rent an apartment, carry out any business with the government, withdraw money from the bank, deposit money in the bank, cash a paycheck, get a passport, start a new job, enroll for a class, get on a plane, buy a lottery ticket, get a hotel room, get a marriage license, rent a car, file a court action, apply for a loan, close a mortgage, collect bail paid for erroneous arrests, enroll your kid in daycare or buy Sudafed to want to say\u00a0<strong>shut up, quit your whining and get a free freaking ID?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And do Mark Ritchie&#8217;s legions of phantom, ID-less Minnesotans &#8211; 20% of the adult voting population &#8211; somehow get around in this state without driving, saving, spending, schooling, getting jobs, dealing with banks or governments, marrying, traveling, sueing, borrowing, buying or sniffling?<\/p>\n<p>How <em>do <\/em>they do that?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but I&#8217;m going to repeat myself. \u00a0It&#8217;s a paragraph from a post I wrote last night for this morning. \u00a0As I wrote it, I thought the paragraph stood up as a post on its own. Mark Ritchie claims that something like a fifth of all Minnesota adults lacks an ID for one reason or another. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-integrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990","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=26990"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26992,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26990\/revisions\/26992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}