{"id":32277,"date":"2012-12-06T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32277"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:30:41","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T15:30:41","slug":"you-were-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=32277","title":{"rendered":"You Were Warned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A source at the Capitol &#8211; who was heavily involved in the battle against public funding for the Vikings stadium &#8211; emailed me with his first &#8220;I Told You So&#8221; moment of the new political epoch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I believe I said, all along the campaign for endorsement\u2026the primary\u2026and the general election:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numbers that are being projected, from gambling revenue, to pay the Vikings stadium bonds are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/statelocal\/182222871.html\">wildly optimistic and won\u2019t come true<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was right. And there are 32 references in the legislation to the General Fund. So guess who\u2019s left holding the bag? That\u2019s right\u2026the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>We were ALL sold down the river by the likes of Steve Smith, Connie Doepke, and Gen Olson\u2026in SD33\u2026one of THE most conservative districts in the State.<\/p>\n<p>And I got their legacy\u2026RIGHT HERE!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both sides &#8211; well, two out of three sides at the Capitol, anyway, the &#8220;establishment&#8221; GOP and the DFL &#8211; lied to the people about how the state-funded improvements to Zygi Wilf&#8217;s real estate investment would be financed.<\/p>\n<p>We &#8211; the conservative Republicans &#8211; warned you; we were right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A source at the Capitol &#8211; who was heavily involved in the battle against public funding for the Vikings stadium &#8211; emailed me with his first &#8220;I Told You So&#8221; moment of the new political epoch: I believe I said, all along the campaign for endorsement\u2026the primary\u2026and the general election: \u201cThe numbers that are being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,107,132],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-32277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-i-told-you-so","category-mn-legislature","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32277","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=32277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32279,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32277\/revisions\/32279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}