{"id":29567,"date":"2012-08-13T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T17:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29567"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:22:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:22:04","slug":"as-you-make-your-primary-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29567","title":{"rendered":"As You Make Your Primary Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance has released its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocra-mn.org\/news\/2012-candidate-grades-primary-edition\/\">candidate scorecard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be advised that anyone that didn&#8217;t return their scorecard gets an &#8220;F*&#8221;, based on the assumption that people who don&#8217;t return questionnaires are trying to hide their sentiments until after election time. \u00a0I think that may have been a fair assumption ten years ago; In the case of many Republican candidates &#8211; for instances, District 65&#8217;s Senate and both House candidates &#8211; I think it&#8217;s more a matter of pro-gun libertarians not wanting to hand the DFL another cheap chanting point in a tough area.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s give credit where it&#8217;s due; while I&#8217;ve railed against Steve Smith&#8217;s record in many areas, he&#8217;s been a solid Second Amendment vote, although I don&#8217;t see Cindy Pugh being any less a supporter.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, there you go. \u00a0Vote accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance has released its candidate scorecard. Be advised that anyone that didn&#8217;t return their scorecard gets an &#8220;F*&#8221;, based on the assumption that people who don&#8217;t return questionnaires are trying to hide their sentiments until after election time. \u00a0I think that may have been a fair assumption ten years ago; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-29567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament","tag-2nd-amendment-grass-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29567","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=29567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29569,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29567\/revisions\/29569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}