{"id":28345,"date":"2012-06-05T05:25:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T10:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28345"},"modified":"2012-06-05T10:20:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T15:20:37","slug":"28345","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28345","title":{"rendered":"Whose Party Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Doepke filed to challenge Dave Osmek in the primary for the SD33 Senate race.<\/p>\n<p>At the SD33 convention two weeks ago Osmek, a conservative with 11 years&#8217; experience on the Mound city council &#8211; beat Doepke, \u00a0a GOP representative who left an extremely safe House seat to campaign for Gen Olson&#8217;s old Senate seat, after voting for the stadium and the New Generation Energy Act, to say nothing of supporting light rail.  Osmek won with over 80% of the delegate vote, after Bonn Clayton committed his delegates to Osmek on the fourth ballot (the battle had been between him and Osmek &#8211; Doepke never got out of the twenties). <\/p>\n<p>If you live in SD33, and want the GOP majority to be something other than a lapdog for Lori Sturdevant and Zygi Wilf, you need to turn out to help Dave.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, if you live in the western subs &#8211; usually safe territory for the GOP &#8211; you need to find the time to help Dave. \u00a0IF you live in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SD20 (Wright County)<\/li>\n<li>SD34 (the Maple Grove\/Rogers area)<\/li>\n<li>Carver County\/SD47 (assuming Senator Ortmann doesn&#8217;t get a challenge in the primary),<\/li>\n<li>And even SD44 (Plymouth\/Minnetonka)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Your district is probably safe enough to peel off a few bucks and some shoe leather for Dave. \u00a0He needs volunteers &#8211; and of course, money. \u00a0While Dave will get support from the party, Doepke can count on plenty of help from the likes of the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce, which like most Chambers of Commerce is perfectly happy to throw aside sound principle to get someone else to pay for their trans and stadiums and other goodies.<\/p>\n<p>So the choice is yours, Mound\/Minnetrista\/Lake Minnetonka; does your party reflect you, the activists? \u00a0Or does it reflect those who&#8217;d suck up to Zygi Wilf and the Strib?<\/p>\n<p>Your choice is clear, and your time is now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Doepke filed to challenge Dave Osmek in the primary for the SD33 Senate race. At the SD33 convention two weeks ago Osmek, a conservative with 11 years&#8217; experience on the Mound city council &#8211; beat Doepke, \u00a0a GOP representative who left an extremely safe House seat to campaign for Gen Olson&#8217;s old Senate seat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,132,72],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-28345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-mn-legislature","category-mngop","tag-sd33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345","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=28345"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28351,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28345\/revisions\/28351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}