{"id":2828,"date":"2008-07-07T05:25:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T10:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2008-07-07T05:25:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T10:25:28","slug":"vive-la-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2828","title":{"rendered":"Vive La Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Saint Paul, the Republicans rented space in a couple of nearly-empty old (1890&#8217;s) office buildings <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.e-democracy.org\/r\/post\/yIIwR7EEcSVnkLftFke0v\">that had sold<\/a> (to the current owners, not the GOP) for $10.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hm.\u00a0 Saving money.\u00a0 Good, conservative management.\u00a0 (Comment about the Bush Administration&#8217;s spending excised for excessive obviousness).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/06\/us\/politics\/06convention.html?_r=1&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1215360508-WF2jXWrCpATCwcowUvGJcw\">How about the Dems<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"More articles about Democratic Party\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/d\/democratic_party\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\"><font color=\"#004276\">Democratic National Convention<\/font><\/a> Committee decided not to take cheap office space and instead rented top-quality offices in downtown Denver at $100,000 a month, only to need less than half the space, which it then filled with rental furniture at $50,000 a month. And in a costly misstep, the Denver host committee, early on, told corporate donors that their contributions were not tax-deductible, rather than to encourage donations by saying that the tax-exempt application was pending and expected to be approved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So <em>that&#8217;s <\/em>where all the dotcom CEOs went.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/06\/democratic-convention-stumbles-in-democratic-fashion\/\">Ed has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Saint Paul, the Republicans rented space in a couple of nearly-empty old (1890&#8217;s) office buildings that had sold (to the current owners, not the GOP) for $10.\u00a0 Hm.\u00a0 Saving money.\u00a0 Good, conservative management.\u00a0 (Comment about the Bush Administration&#8217;s spending excised for excessive obviousness).\u00a0 How about the Dems? Democratic National Convention Committee decided not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-convention-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828","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=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}