SCENE: \u00a0MITCH is sitting with Inge “Lucky” CARROLL and Bridget GRETELSTEIN, operatives for the ABM (“Alita Buys Minnesota”), at the Champs in Mendota Heights.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0(Continuing conversation that started before the scene) Well, yeah – ABM and the DFL’s message – pardon the redundancy – was aimed at low-information voters.<\/p>\n
CARROLL(sitting with four empty cosmos in front of her): \u00a0Hah! \u00a0You are having teh meltdown!<\/p>\n
BERG: \u00a0Er, huh? \u00a0“Meltdown”.<\/p>\n
CARROLL: \u00a0Yes. \u00a0You are having teh meltdown.<\/p>\n
BERG: \u00a0Well, no. \u00a0I’m pretty calm. Bored and waiting for a drink, actually. \u00a0Where do you get “meltdown?”<\/p>\n
GRETELSTEIN: \u00a0It makes you uncomfortable, talking about your declining mental state. \u00a0Doesn’t it?<\/p>\n
BERG: \u00a0No, it makes me uncomfortable that neither of you will answer a question about your organization’s cynical, factually-challenged campaign. \u00a0I’ve been documenting all your group’s lies for years now. \u00a0And I’m just amazed that so many people in our purportedly “above-average” state buy such a line of transparent BS.<\/p>\n
CARROLL: \u00a0You’re so angry, you’re about to have teh stroke.<\/p>\n
BERG: \u00a0What part of “bored and waiting on a drink” do you have trouble with?<\/p>\n
GRETELSTEIN: \u00a0Don’t go all postal on us!<\/p>\n
BERG: \u00a0Hm. \u00a0OK, I’ll see what I can do. \u00a0Hey, let’s talk about what the new DFL majority will inherit – since Democrats are all about babbling about things they inherited. \u00a0A balanced state budget, for starters.<\/p>\n
(Silence for a few seconds as CARROLL and GRETELSTEIN look uncomfortably at each other).<\/p>\n
CARROLL: \u00a0You are having teh meltdown.<\/p>\n
(And SCENE)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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