{"id":2962,"date":"2008-07-30T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T17:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2008-07-30T09:54:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T14:54:53","slug":"minneapolis-soak-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2962","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis:  Soak The GOP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month,\u00a0we (via the <em>Mindy<\/em>) noted that the Minneapolis Park and Rec\u00a0board had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2842\">jacked its &#8220;large tent event&#8221;<\/a> fee from $60.00 to <em>$10,000 dollars <\/em>for the Republican Convention.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2819\"><em>Specifically <\/em>for the\u00a0convention<\/a>.\u00a0 <em>Specifically <\/em>to soak Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minneapolis Shadow at the Urban Renaissance Coalition blog <a href=\"http:\/\/urcmpls.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/why-not-to-do-business-with-minneapolis.html\">finds another<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take a\u00a0look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us\/council\/2008-meetings\/20080808\/PSRS20080730agenda.asp#TopOfPage\">the agenda for the Public Safety and Regulatory Committee Agenda item number one<\/a> on taxicabs. The time period for the fare increases are during the Republican National Convention.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of being happy to allow the increase in revenue from the activity that the convention brings, such as income from cab rides, they need to raise fares. I find this practice appalling. It is another example of how the city officials purposely go out of their way to discourage business growth, or are just plain stupid when it comes to long term thinking on economic development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Y&#8217;know what?\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to stop buying things in Minneaopolis.\u00a0 Nosirreebob.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll come to the Mill City, all right.\u00a0 And buy clothes.\u00a0 And unprepared food.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lots of it.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff that isn&#8217;t taxed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not a damn thing more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month,\u00a0we (via the Mindy) noted that the Minneapolis Park and Rec\u00a0board had jacked its &#8220;large tent event&#8221; fee from $60.00 to $10,000 dollars for the Republican Convention. Specifically for the\u00a0convention.\u00a0 Specifically to soak Republicans.\u00a0 Minneapolis Shadow at the Urban Renaissance Coalition blog finds another: Take a\u00a0look at the agenda for the Public Safety and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,17,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-convention-08","category-minneapolis","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","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=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}