{"id":30743,"date":"2012-09-26T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30743"},"modified":"2012-09-26T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T17:30:12","slug":"its-the-saint-paul-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30743","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The Saint Paul Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lived in Saint Paul for most of the past 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>And in that time, the half-life of a GOP campaign sign in my neighborhood is roughly five days. \u00a0They &#8211; every single one of them &#8211; gets stolen or destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just kids out pranking&#8221; say the local DFLers. \u00a0&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing political about it&#8221;. \u00a0But my DFLer neighbors&#8217; signs remain blissfully undisturbed.<\/p>\n<p>(And at least one source reports to me that they&#8217;ve seen a middle-aged woman in a mini-van stealing Tony Hernandez signs. \u00a0Pranking kids? \u00a0I think freaking not).<\/p>\n<p>Whomever it is, it means either&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The DFL in Saint Paul runs a perennial campaign to silence dissent, or&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>DFL-leaning &#8220;Kids&#8221; (and &#8220;moms&#8221;) have no respect for difference of opinion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Neither of them is a particularly flattering verdict of the Saint Paul DFL.<\/p>\n<p>I got this email earlier this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is a burned Vote Yes sign in the Macalester Groveland neighborhood of St. Paul.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=30744\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-30744\" title=\"IMG_20120923_184515\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184515-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184515-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184515-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184515.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several Vote No signs up and down our block. All unscathed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=30745\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-30745\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-30745\" title=\"IMG_20120923_184533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184533-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184533-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184533-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_20120923_184533.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This needs reporting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is not the first time this has happened.<\/p>\n<p>More of that respect for diversity, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve lived in Saint Paul for most of the past 25 years. And in that time, the half-life of a GOP campaign sign in my neighborhood is roughly five days. \u00a0They &#8211; every single one of them &#8211; gets stolen or destroyed. &#8220;It&#8217;s just kids out pranking&#8221; say the local DFLers. \u00a0&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing political about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743","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=30743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30748,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30743\/revisions\/30748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}