{"id":3049,"date":"2008-08-11T12:03:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:01:52","slug":"just-desserts-for-a-collaborator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"Just Desserts For A Collaborator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Hamilton &#8211; one of the six &#8220;Republican&#8221; legislators who stabbed Governor Pawlenty in the back last session &#8211; is learning the hard way; the DFL doesn&#8217;t make Republican friends; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/state\/26818829.html\">they just recruit stooges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six months ago, Rod Hamilton was center stage in the biggest drama at the State Capitol. And so was Hwy. 60, a crucial roadway splitting southern Minnesota that many believe is in need of expansion and improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the theatrics continue, with Hamilton in effect complaining that he was duped, and Hwy. 60 is no nearer to getting the attention he thinks it needs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And so Hamilton &#8211; with five other Republicans In Name Only &#8211; joined with the DFL to ram through one of the most egregious tax hikes in Minnesota history.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, he had his reasons&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the time Hamilton made things clear: If DFLers would provide funding for Hwy. 60, they would get his vote.<\/p>\n<p>When Hamilton, a pork producer [<em>Hahahahahahahaha! &#8211; Ed<\/em>.]\u00a0whose district relies heavily on the highway, cast his vote to override, the legislation contained 22 lines that appeared to instruct the Minnesota Department of Transportation to give Hwy. 60 a higher priority for funding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;but that all depends on what the definition of the term <strike>&#8220;is&#8221;<\/strike> &#8220;funded&#8221; is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But MnDOT now contends the language was never clear and is withholding any commitment to the Hwy. 60 project.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the key DFL legislator who sponsored the transportation bill said Hamilton misunderstood the language concerning Hwy. 60.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rod Hamilton:\u00a0 Traitor?\u00a0 Naive?\u00a0 Stupid?\u00a0 All the above?<\/p>\n<p>I bet it all seemed like such a good idea back when Lori Sturdevant was offering to paint his toenails&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rod Hamilton &#8211; one of the six &#8220;Republican&#8221; legislators who stabbed Governor Pawlenty in the back last session &#8211; is learning the hard way; the DFL doesn&#8217;t make Republican friends; they just recruit stooges: Six months ago, Rod Hamilton was center stage in the biggest drama at the State Capitol. And so was Hwy. 60, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","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=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22593,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/22593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}