{"id":2935,"date":"2008-07-25T06:51:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T11:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2008-07-25T10:39:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:39:20","slug":"striking-a-blow-for-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2935","title":{"rendered":"Striking A Blow For Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sean from MNPublius voices his disgust<\/a> at “front groups” attacking the “Employee Free Choice Act”, the proposal with the most Orwellian name since the “Fairness Doctrine”<\/p>\n

[State DFL chair] Brian Melendez sums it up<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Two front groups have been spreading false statements about the Employee Free Choice Act \u2014 lies that Senator Norm Coleman has gladly repeated on many occasions, even after labor leaders met with him and explained that the statements were untruthful and that the Act in fact guarantees a secret ballot. Senator Coleman desperately wants to divert attention from his record and from his intimate ties with the corporate special interests that fund his campaign, so he has resorted to telling lies about his opponent, Al Franken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

More about the E”F”CA later.\u00a0 Back to Melendez<\/p>\n

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But in Minnesota, we don\u2019t tolerate intentionally false statements in paid political advertising; in fact, such statements are a crime, and rightly so. We are therefore holding legally accountable the two groups that have knowingly and intentionally spread these false statements in Minnesota. A judge will hold those groups accountable. And Minnesotavoters will hold Norm Coleman accountable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s about time. It was exposed that these ads were intentionally dishonest a long time ago. Coleman has been asked to condemn the ads. Coleman continued to trot along telling the same lie. The ads never stopped. Therefore, appropriate legal action\u2019s being taken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes.\u00a0 It’s a terrible thing when front groups<\/a> that are paid by political special interests<\/a> spread craven<\/a>, facile <\/a>lies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get out there and condemn ’em!<\/p>\n

Whew.\u00a0 I’m glad we could settle this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sean from MNPublius voices his disgust at “front groups” attacking the “Employee Free Choice Act”, the proposal with the most Orwellian name since the “Fairness Doctrine” [State DFL chair] Brian Melendez sums it up: Two front groups have been spreading false statements about the Employee Free Choice Act \u2014 lies that Senator Norm Coleman has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}