{"id":33349,"date":"2013-01-11T06:15:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33349"},"modified":"2013-01-11T06:15:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T12:15:27","slug":"u-of-m-cone-of-silence-for-dflers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33349","title":{"rendered":"U Of M: Cone Of Silence For DFLers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So last Wednesday, the entire State Legislature attended a “Policy Conference<\/a>” at the U of M.<\/p>\n

Check out the notice. \u00a0It’s “closed to the public”.<\/p>\n

Inquiries to the U’s public relations contact were – is this surprising to anyone? – not returned.<\/p>\n

This follows close on the heels of an event in September at the U with Governor Dayton; Dayton’s performance appeared addled – but the U of M didn’t videotape the speech (citing “expense”), and the media in attendance embargoed their own video of Dayton’s performance.<\/p>\n

I’m not as clear on open meeting laws as I should be, but I have to wonder: has the U become a handy place for the DFL to skirt open meeting laws?<\/p>\n

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So last Wednesday, the entire State Legislature attended a “Policy Conference” at the U of M. Check out the notice. \u00a0It’s “closed to the public”. Inquiries to the U’s public relations contact were – is this surprising to anyone? – not returned. This follows close on the heels of an event in September at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-your-papers-please"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33349","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=33349"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33367,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33349\/revisions\/33367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}