{"id":2819,"date":"2008-07-07T06:44:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2008-07-07T06:44:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T11:44:42","slug":"gouging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"Gouging"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seemed like a “punk”; the Minneapolis Park Board goes on video and says they’re jacking their “large tent rental”<\/a> from $60 to $10,000, to take advantage of the Republican National Convention. So much so that I had to double-check<\/a> to make sure it wasn’t tongue-in-cheek.<\/p>\n

No such luck.<\/p>\n

Sure enough; the Minneapolis Park Board wants to gouge Republican event planners.<\/p>\n

PARK SUPERINTENDENT JON GURBAN:<\/strong> I would then turn over the numbers point to Julie, subbing for Don, who presented these to the mayor and will also report on where we found that new goldmine. No?
\nPARK COMMISSIONER SCOTT VREELAND:<\/strong> Thank you. Juli Wiseman will be making the staff presentation.
\nPARK COMMISSIONER CAROL KUMMER:<\/strong> Mr. Chair, just before she gets \u2026 Under Strategy 1, I\u2019m assuming the tent rental increase went from $60 to $100, not $10,000. Or is that your goldmine? [general laughter<\/em>]
\nGURBAN:<\/strong> No, you\u2019re \u2026 Allow me to explain. The small tent rental went to that. But we now have a larger tent rental that somehow<\/em> coincided with a convention that is coming to town that had a number of requests for LARGE events and gatherings on our property.
\nKUMMER:<\/strong> It\u2019s not a typo.
\nGURBAN:<\/strong> No.
\nKUMMER:<\/strong> Thank you for that good news.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chris Steller has the video over at the Mindy<\/em>. See for yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So – now that we know this isn’t some elaborate hoax – you have the Minneapolis City Council actively and publicly planning to gouge the GOP Convention on the one hand, and the President of the Saint Paul City Council publicly expressing his contempt for Republicans<\/a> on the other, while passing resolutions welcoming the protesters.<\/p>\n

Naturaly, I’ll be inviting all the principals to this discussion onto the NARN. Hopefully Superintendent Gurban and Commissioners Vreeland and Kummer will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seemed like a “punk”; the Minneapolis Park Board goes on video and says they’re jacking their “large tent rental” from $60 to $10,000, to take advantage of the Republican National Convention. So much so that I had to double-check to make sure it wasn’t tongue-in-cheek. No such luck. Sure enough; the Minneapolis Park Board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-days-of-adolescent-rage","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","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=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}