{"id":3270,"date":"2008-09-09T07:48:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T12:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2008-09-09T07:53:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T12:53:15","slug":"neil-petersons-dirty-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3270","title":{"rendered":"Neil Peterson&#8217;s Dirty Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Peterson was perfectly fine ditching the GOP last spring, when he joined with the rest of the Override Six to stab Governor Pawlenty and his district&#8217;s voters in the back by voting to kill the veto of the DFL&#8217;s Transporktation bill, the biggest tax hike in Minnesota history.<\/p>\n<p>But with the primary here today, it&#8217;s another story:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3108\/2843041566_48c431d396.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a voters&#8217; guide card mailed to residents of District 41B, listing Peterson <em>among the endorsed Republicans<\/em> in today&#8217;s primary.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Peterson was <em>not <\/em>endorsed.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electjanschneider.com\/\">Jan Schneide<\/a>r was.\u00a0 <strong>The 41B GOP rejected Peterson by a staggering, Georgia Tech Vs. Cumberland-like margin<\/strong> at their convention.<br \/>\nPeterson&#8217;s scurrilous dirty trick is clearly aimed at duping the disengaged voter into pulling the lever for him.  <em>It is a lie<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a 41B Republican, don&#8217;t be fooled, please.  Vote Schneider.<\/p>\n<p>If you <em>know  <\/em>a 41B Republican, don&#8217;t let <em>them<\/em> be fooled.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson trashes the Republican party &#8211; until he believes he needs it to stay in office.  This can not be allowed to succeed.<\/p>\n<p>Vote Schneider in 41B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Peterson was perfectly fine ditching the GOP last spring, when he joined with the rest of the Override Six to stab Governor Pawlenty and his district&#8217;s voters in the back by voting to kill the veto of the DFL&#8217;s Transporktation bill, the biggest tax hike in Minnesota history. But with the primary here today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270","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=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}