{"id":27849,"date":"2012-05-10T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27849"},"modified":"2012-05-10T13:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:14:35","slug":"explanations-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=27849","title":{"rendered":"Explanations, Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going to spend a little time going over the votes of the Republicans who supported the stadium.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the Senate.<\/p>\n

You can look at a fairly interesting map of the votes<\/a> in the House and Senate; the map isn’t entirely unpredictable; third-ring exurban Republicans voted (mostly) against it; Republicans in swingy districts, and moderates, voted “yes”.<\/p>\n

Let’s break ’em down:<\/p>\n

Democrats voting yes<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m not going to bother analyzing them – they’re all hopeless anyway.<\/p>\n

Bakk (Cook); Bonoff (Minnetonka); Cohen (St. Paul); Goodwin (Columbia Heights); Harrington (St. Paul); Higgins (Minneapolis); Kelash (Minneapolis); Koenen (Clara City); Langseth (Glyndon); Latz (St. Louis Park); Metzen (South St. Paul); Pappas (St. Paul); Reinert (Duluth); Rest (New Hope); Saxhaug (Grand Rapids); Sheran (Mankato); Sieben (Newport); Skoe (Clearbrook); Sparks (Austin); Stumpf (Plummer); Tomassoni (Chisholm); Wiger (Maplewood)<\/p>\n

Democrats voting no<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, I’m pretty sure Mark Dayton has to be loving the fact that the GOP is the party tearing itself apart over this – the only eight DFLers voted against the bill: \u00a0Dibble (Minneapolis); Dziedzic (Minneapolis); Eaton (Brooklyn Center); Hayden (Minneapolis); Lourey (Kerrick); Marty (Roseville); McGuire (Falcon Heights); Torres Ray (Minneapolis)<\/p>\n

Republicans voting no<\/strong><\/p>\n

No arguments here. \u00a0They’re the good guys and gals:<\/p>\n

Benson (Ham Lake); Brown (Becker); Chamberlain (Lino Lakes); Dahms (Redwood Falls); Daley (Eagan); DeKruif (Madison Lake); Gazelka (Brainerd); Gerlach (Apple Valley); Hall (Burnsville); Hann (Eden Prairie); Hoffman (Vergas); Kruse (Brooklyn Park); Lillie (Lake Elmo); Limmer (Maple Grove); Newman (Hutchinson); Ortman (Chanhassen); Parry (Waseca); Thompson (Lakeville); Vandeveer (Forest Lake); Wolf (Spring Lake Park)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Republicans voting yes<\/strong><\/div>\n
Now here, we have some ‘splainin’ to do. \u00a0Let’s go over ’em, Senator by Senator:<\/div>\n

Carlson (Bemidji); Fischbach (Paynesville); Gimse (Willmar); Howe (Red Wing); Ingebrigtsen (Alexandria); Jungbauer (East Bethel); Koch (Buffalo); Magnus (Slayton); Michel (Edina); Miller (Winona); Nelson (Rochester); Nienow (Cambridge); Pederson (St. Cloud); Robling (Jordan); Rosen (Fairmont); Senjem (Rochester)<\/p>\n

I have to say I’d hoped for much better from Niennow, who has been as solid a supporter of the taxpayer as there is (UPDATE: \u00a0And rightly so. \u00a0Nienow’s vote was apparently a parliamentary dodge. \u00a0My apologies). \u00a0And I didn’t expect much from a few of the others – especially the retiring Michel, who has nothing to lose – sad to say.<\/p>\n

But for the rest?<\/p>\n

I think an explanation is in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going to spend a little time going over the votes of the Republicans who supported the stadium. Let’s start with the Senate. You can look at a fairly interesting map of the votes in the House and Senate; the map isn’t entirely unpredictable; third-ring exurban Republicans voted (mostly) against it; Republicans in swingy districts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27849","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=27849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27851,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27849\/revisions\/27851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}