{"id":29906,"date":"2012-08-27T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29906"},"modified":"2012-08-26T12:33:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T17:33:05","slug":"29906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=29906","title":{"rendered":"Negotiating From Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Steve Smith, tossed in the primaries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/167363385.html\">gave his last speech<\/a>\u00a0as a legislator the other day. \u00a0Go to the Strib, which cries its crocodile tears at the loss of a &#8220;moderate&#8221;, to see his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Smith: \u00a0Thanks for the good things you did do during your 22 years in the Legislature, including your solid support for the Minnesota Personal Protection Act.<\/p>\n<p>As a personal aside, as a Republican who&#8217;s been a union member? Supporting unions who actually do, as you say, &#8220;negotiate for safer working conditions, reasonable benefits, and fair pay in return for their labor&#8221;, is a perfectly fine thing.<\/p>\n<p>But government unions &#8220;negotiate&#8221; with the people that they paid to have elected. \u00a0That&#8217;s a little different. \u00a0And it&#8217;s a distinction you seemed pretty unclear about.<\/p>\n<p>And that cost you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representative Steve Smith, tossed in the primaries, gave his last speech\u00a0as a legislator the other day. \u00a0Go to the Strib, which cries its crocodile tears at the loss of a &#8220;moderate&#8221;, to see his remarks. Rep. Smith: \u00a0Thanks for the good things you did do during your 22 years in the Legislature, including your solid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906","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=29906"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29910,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29906\/revisions\/29910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}