Jim Souhan’s attention-grabbing April 18 column (“No point in dumbing down stadium issue”) has generated much discussion — even more since readers have learned elsewhere that I voted “yes” in a House committee to advance a Vikings stadium bill.<\/p>\n
Citizens also have been interested to learn that, while quoting me, Souhan omitted key sentences that would have made my legislative intent clear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Why would this happen?<\/p>\n
Because it’s very much in the Star\/Tribune’s <\/em>interest to get a public subsidy for the Vikings. \u00a0Because the Vikes are a huuuuuge moneymaker for the Strib <\/em>and its owners, who have a large and ill-advised investment to protect.<\/p>\nIt appears that Souhan neither attended the meeting about which he wrote, nor listened to the audio from it, nor reviewed the transcript before penning his column. He also did not contact me before taking great leaps in asserting what my thought process was.<\/p>\n
The sad truth is that Souhan ended up with a column based on a false premise and filled with ignorance and distortion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Urdahl proceeds to shred Souhan. \u00a0Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m used to seeing left-leaning writers like David Brauer tossing kudos on Twitter to DFL legislators. But when I saw him punching up\u00a0this op-ed here by GOP representative Dean Urdahl, responding to the Strib’s Jim Souhan\u00a0and his pro-stadium, fact-challenged hatchet job earlier in the week? That was news. Urdahl: Jim Souhan’s attention-grabbing April 18 column […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563","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=27563"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27570,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27563\/revisions\/27570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}