{"id":3276,"date":"2008-09-10T07:29:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2008-09-10T09:33:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T14:33:47","slug":"another-rino-bites-the-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3276","title":{"rendered":"Another RINO Bites The Dust"},"content":{"rendered":"

District 41B voters ignore Neil Peterson’s desperate lie<\/a> and advance Jan Schneider to the general election<\/a>.
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Schneider won by a handy 57\/43 margin.<\/p>\n

Peterson, in this Strib clip<\/a>, sounds graceless and petulant in defeat:<\/p>\n

“We got blown right out,” Peterson, a two-term House member, said of his primary race against Jan Schneider, who had won the GOP endorsement in March. “It was the state [Republican] party that beat me, it wasn’t the candidate.<\/p>\n

“It’s just like the Cosa Nostra; they decide to put a mark on you,” he added. Peterson said he suspected his override vote was the principal reason for his defeat, and said “I’m probably the only Republican in history whom the Republican Party has targeted.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was<\/em> the candidate that beat you. Actually, two; Schneider has the right message, and Peterson has the wrong one. The override vote was just a noxious turd atop the sewage sundae that’s been Peterson’s career as a Sturdevant Republican who’s voted with the DFL 52% of the time<\/em> during his two-term stint in the House.<\/p>\n

Mary LaHammer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rep. Neil Peterson fom Bloomington had character and spunk and that’s always appreciated in the press.\u00a0 But once again, you can’t bite the hand that feeds you:\u00a0 local party activists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a worthy observation, there, GOP legislators; you’re not in office to please\u00a0Lori Sturdevant or Cathy Wurzer or Nick Coleman.\u00a0 You’re there to serve the district that sent you to\u00a0office.\u00a0 And if you got elected\u00a0with the support of a party, you owe something <\/em>to the party’s principles.\u00a0 Go ahead and vote your conscience and defy those principles if you feel you must – it’s a matter of your personal integrity.\u00a0 But realize that there’ll be consequences, and that while Lori Sturdevant may paint your toenails, she’s not necessarily going to help you with the people who matter.\u00a0 The voters.\u00a0The people who sent you to St. Paul in the first place.<\/p>\n

Goodbye, and good riddance.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s time to get Jan Schneider elected.<\/p>\n

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District 41B voters ignore Neil Peterson’s desperate lie and advance Jan Schneider to the general election. Schneider won by a handy 57\/43 margin. Peterson, in this Strib clip, sounds graceless and petulant in defeat: “We got blown right out,” Peterson, a two-term House member, said of his primary race against Jan Schneider, who had won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276","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=3276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}