{"id":2973,"date":"2008-07-31T07:00:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2008-08-04T20:43:54","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:43:54","slug":"connecting-the-dots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2973","title":{"rendered":"Connecting The Dots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gross at Let Freedom Ring connects the dots on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080728\/OPINION\/107280028\/1006\">letter to the editor from Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner<\/a> about Michele Bachmann&#8217;s recent spate of publicity on energy policy.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Gaertner, of course, is the Ramsey County Attorney &#8211; and the wife of John Woedele, former Jesse Ventura press flak.  Woedele&#8217;s working for the Elwin &#8220;E-Tink&#8221; Tinklenberg campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.letfreedomringblog.com\/?p=3006\">Conclusion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The big picture point I\u2019m making is that Ms. Gaertner\u2019s sloppily researched LTE is a poorly disguised hit piece for her hubby\u2019s boss. That certainly isn\u2019t Minnesota Nice. In fact, it\u2019s downright sleazy. If Mr. Tinklenberg suggested that this be written, then the Tinklenberg campaign should apologize for suggesting it. If Ms. Gaertner\u2019s LTE was suggested by her husband, then it\u2019s something that the Tinklenberg campaign should distance itself from ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>In either case, the Tinklenberg campaign\u2019s behavior has been shameful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Woedele and Gaertner&#8217;s relationship is hardly an obscure factoid.  You&#8217;d think the newspaper would make that clear if they printed her letter.  Wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>Nah.  Me either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Gross at Let Freedom Ring connects the dots on a letter to the editor from Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner about Michele Bachmann&#8217;s recent spate of publicity on energy policy. Susan Gaertner, of course, is the Ramsey County Attorney &#8211; and the wife of John Woedele, former Jesse Ventura press flak. Woedele&#8217;s working for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","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=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}