{"id":2857,"date":"2008-07-11T16:37:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2008-07-11T20:09:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T01:09:24","slug":"mission-creep-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2857","title":{"rendered":"Mission Creep II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zack at MNPublius <a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2008\/07\/coleman-is-so-full-of-it\/\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Norm Coleman said he would allow the press to photograph his \u201ccramped\u201d apartment in Washington, D.C. in order to prove that he\u2019s not getting favorable treatment.  But now Norm is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.twincities.com\/politics\/2008\/07\/colemans_apartment_no_photos_p.html\">backtracking<\/a> on that promise\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He goes on to say (emphasis added by me):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But yesterday a DC staffer said no photos would be made available. The reason? Security.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe consulted with the <strong>Capitol Police<\/strong> who advised that taking photos could pose a security risk,\u201d said LeRoy Coleman, Coleman\u2019s press secretary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zack then replays last month&#8217;s &#8220;controversial&#8221; Coleman spot:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">That\u2019s right, the Coleman campaign broadcasted [sic] video of Norm\u2019s house on television! Where was their concern for the Senator\u2019s safety then?<\/p>\n<p>Again, I&#8217;m either a cop nor a lawyer, but assuming it&#8217;s really Norm&#8217;s Twin Cities house in the TV spot, it might have something to do with <em>the Capitol Police having no jurisdiction<\/em> in Saint Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what I&#8217;ve missed.<\/p>\n<p>APOLOGIES:  I inadvertently deleted the first version of this post.  I know the original had at least one comment.  I apologize.  More or less.<\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack at MNPublius writes: Norm Coleman said he would allow the press to photograph his \u201ccramped\u201d apartment in Washington, D.C. in order to prove that he\u2019s not getting favorable treatment. But now Norm is backtracking on that promise\u2026 He goes on to say (emphasis added by me): But yesterday a DC staffer said no photos [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}