{"id":2853,"date":"2008-07-11T12:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2853"},"modified":"2008-07-11T12:56:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T17:56:42","slug":"2853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2853","title":{"rendered":"Storm Over Edina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing official yet, but Zack at MNPublius <a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2008\/07\/erhardt-to-file-as-an-independent\/\">notes<\/a> that&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A reliable source at the Capitol tells MN Publius that Ron Erhardt will file as an Independent candidate for the State House in 41A shortly before the filing deadline next week.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m torn; I think\u00a0it&#8217;s possible Erhardt will take more votes from the DFL than from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithdowney.com\/\">Keith Downey<\/a>, the\u00a0endorsed\u00a0GOP\u00a0candidate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did I say <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithdowney.com\/\">Keith Downey<\/a>?\u00a0 Yes, I did.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re a Republican in Edina, or in one of the safer Congressional Districts, it behooves us all to get out and get behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithdowney.com\/\">Keith Downey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I love this bit of DFLer boilerplate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Erhardt was denied the Republican endorsement for reelection after he voted to override the Governor\u2019s veto of the transportation bill despite decades of service to the MN\u00a0GOP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d had a blog in 1996:\u00a0 &#8220;Norm Coleman was chased from the DFL after he took a moderate line on taxation and abortion despite decades of service to the Saint Paul and Minnesota DFL&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To say nothing of 2005: &#8220;Randy Kelly was purged from the DFL after governing to the center, and endorsing on pure foreign-policy principle George W. Bush, despite decades of loyal service to the\u00a0 Saint Paul DFL&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, where was I?\u00a0 Oh, yes.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithdowney.com\/\">Keith Downey<\/a>\u00a0is running in 41A.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithdowney.com\/\">Keith Downey<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithdowney.com\/\">Keith Downey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing official yet, but Zack at MNPublius notes that&#8230;: A reliable source at the Capitol tells MN Publius that Ron Erhardt will file as an Independent candidate for the State House in 41A shortly before the filing deadline next week.\u00a0 I&#8217;m torn; I think\u00a0it&#8217;s possible Erhardt will take more votes from the DFL than from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853","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=2853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}