{"id":27247,"date":"2012-04-03T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27247"},"modified":"2012-12-20T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T18:29:16","slug":"the-lori-sturdevant-column-im-looking-forward-to-seeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27247","title":{"rendered":"The Lori Sturdevant Column I&#8217;m Looking Forward To Seeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Senator John Harrington remembers a time when the DFL had to try to represent both sides, and be responsible&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;<em>There was a time in Saint Paul DFL politics when, yes, there was ideology, but you had to remember you were representing ALL of the people in your district<\/em>&#8220;, Harrington told me over coffee at a favorite East Side hangout on Lexington yesterday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Harrington was reeling from his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/localnews\/ci_20298763\/vote-2012-john-harrington-cant-win-dfl-endorsement\">non-endorsement at his Senate District convention last weekend<\/a>, where extreme liberal zealots, acting more from partisanship than concern for what was best for the district, split their vote three ways, denying Harrington the endorsement&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an unseemly commentary on Minnesota politics today, where the DFL is running for the extreme left in a way that, to this reporter, seems &#8220;Un-Minnesotan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What would Hubert H. Humphrey say?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Senator John Harrington remembers a time when the DFL had to try to represent both sides, and be responsible&#8221;. &#8220;&#8221;There was a time in Saint Paul DFL politics when, yes, there was ideology, but you had to remember you were representing ALL of the people in your district&#8220;, Harrington told me over coffee at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27247","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=27247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32901,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27247\/revisions\/32901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}