{"id":31239,"date":"2012-10-23T07:27:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31239"},"modified":"2012-10-23T07:27:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T12:27:52","slug":"effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31239","title":{"rendered":"Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The by-no-means-right-of-center Saint Cloud Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sctimes.com\/article\/20121023\/OPINION\/310230003\/Our-View-Re-elect-all-District-14-incumbents?nclick_check=1\">endorsed our old friend King Banaian<\/a> in his re-election bid in Saint Cloud:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0Given an effective first term, Banaian deserves re-election. He authored the Sunset Commission law and helped college students with textbook prices. His expertise in economics also is a strength.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They also acknowledge that the district is full of government clients who would happily sell the state as whole down the river for extra bread and circuses for state employees:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DFL challenger Zach Dorholt presents a formidable challenge in large part because Banaian\u2019s allegiance to hardline GOP fiscal and business principles might not sell well in a district that\u2019s home to a public university and many public-sector employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The paper&#8217;s right &#8211; King won by 10 votes after a recount, down from a couple dozen on election night, in 2010 &#8211; but redistricting was, by most accounts, kind to King. \u00a0While some commentators call this race a toss-up, I think that between redistricting and the fact that Obama will have all the coattails of a hunting vest, King will start to pull away this round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The by-no-means-right-of-center Saint Cloud Times endorsed our old friend King Banaian in his re-election bid in Saint Cloud: \u00a0Given an effective first term, Banaian deserves re-election. He authored the Sunset Commission law and helped college students with textbook prices. His expertise in economics also is a strength. They also acknowledge that the district is full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239","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=31239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31241,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31239\/revisions\/31241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}