{"id":2968,"date":"2008-07-31T05:15:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T10:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2968"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:40:49","slug":"kiss-up-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2968","title":{"rendered":"Kiss-Up Of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know it&#8217;s bad to be Steve Sarvi when the Congressional Quarterly &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/view\/cq-switches-rep\">upgrades<\/a>&#8221; your campaign to &#8220;devoid of hope&#8221;, from &#8220;pray for a relatively painless death&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>After that, how could it get worse?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politicalagenda\/2008\/07\/30\/2774\/democrat_sarvi_cross-endorsed_by_independence_party#69-2774\">it could<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Independence Party of Minnesota has endorsed Steve Sarvi for Congress from the south metro Second Congressional District, according to Sarvi and the IP.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Sarvi, former mayor of Watertown, is already the DFL endorsee. He is running against John Kline, the Republican incumbent who is seeking a fourth term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;Independence&#8221; party endorsement &#8211; a nod from Minnesota&#8217;s DFL-Lite concoction that has earned a dozen years of &#8220;major party&#8221; status on the electoral detritus of having ridden a &#8220;wrestler&#8217;s&#8221; coattails to Saint Paul, and is clinging to relevance by an ever-decaying thread &#8211; is sort of like winning Ms. Congeniality.<\/p>\n<p>At a boxing tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know it&#8217;s bad to be Steve Sarvi when the Congressional Quarterly &#8220;upgrades&#8221; your campaign to &#8220;devoid of hope&#8221;, from &#8220;pray for a relatively painless death&#8221;. After that, how could it get worse? Oh, it could: The Independence Party of Minnesota has endorsed Steve Sarvi for Congress from the south metro Second Congressional District, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968","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=2968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22221,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2968\/revisions\/22221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}