{"id":3062,"date":"2008-08-13T12:04:31","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T17:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:40:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:40:49","slug":"deadbeats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3062","title":{"rendered":"Deadbeats"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s parade season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Politicians love parades.<\/p>\n

Parades love…well, entrants.\u00a0 Because entrants have to pay\u00a0fees to\u00a0be included in the parade.\u00a0 Which pays for the parade itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It’s sure be a low blow if people tried to squeedge into parades without paying, wouldn’t it?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Andy “Triple A” Aplikowski notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Oh look, Democrats don\u2019t pay their fair share. Looks like Democrat El \u2018Gas Tax\u2019 Tinklenberg didn\u2019t pay his dues to properly be in the Stillwater Parade.<\/p>\n

Wow – I witnessed the same kind of \u2018cheating\u2019 at the Stillwater Lumberjack Days Parade. I wrote a letter to the editor, but of course NONE of the major papers would print it. Here it is:<\/p>\n

I found it very interesting that DFL endorsed El Tinklenberg has already cheated the 6th District of Minnesota, the same district he is running to represent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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On Sunday, July 26th, at 12:45pm, Tinklenberg and about 6 of his followers walked the length of the Lumberjack Days Parade route, proudly showing off their campaign shirts \u201cTinklenberg for Congress\u201d, while the candidate shook hands and spoke to hundreds of people lined up on sidewalks. The trouble is, the parade started at 1pm! All other candidates (including the person he is running against, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann), paid their $350 registration fee to Lumberjack Days for their exposure time.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the meantime, Steve Sarvi\u00a0(or, as leftybloggers universally call him, “Veteran Steve Sarvi”) running against career Marine veteran John Kline (or, as leftyblogger call him, “Kline”) seems to have\u00a0 a similar view on economizing<\/a>, according to Janet at the Scholars:<\/p>\n

At yesterday’s parade in Lonsdale, we checked the parade registrant list. Sarvi was not listed as a participant, yet he “doubled up” to walk with a local MN House representative. Is this the first time that Sarvi has ducked the parade registration fees while showing up to walk the parade route with several of his supporters, all wearing campaign T-shirts with his name on it? Probably not.<\/p>\n

Stiffing local parade organizers over registration fees indicates irresponsibility on the part of a candidate. It raises the question: How many times this season has Mr. Sarvi just bummed a ride from some other candidate? Do we want to even consider someone who mooches like this to represent us in Congress?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No word yet on whether Ashwin Madia (or, as leftyblogger refer to him but never, ever to John Kline “Marine Veteran Ashwin Madia”) has been paying his parade fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s parade season.\u00a0 Politicians love parades. Parades love…well, entrants.\u00a0 Because entrants have to pay\u00a0fees to\u00a0be included in the parade.\u00a0 Which pays for the parade itself.\u00a0 It’s sure be a low blow if people tried to squeedge into parades without paying, wouldn’t it?\u00a0 Andy “Triple A” Aplikowski notes: Oh look, Democrats don\u2019t pay their fair share. […]<\/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-3062","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\/3062","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=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22220,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/22220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}