{"id":33447,"date":"2013-01-15T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33447"},"modified":"2013-01-15T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T16:34:02","slug":"waiting-on-the-unicorns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33447","title":{"rendered":"Waiting On The Unicorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week: \u00a0the DFL in the Legislature, with the aid of their PR arm in the Twin Cities media, exclaimed with great ballyhoo that they were going to &#8220;repay the school funding shift&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33237\">As we noted at the time<\/a>, the DFL promised &#8211; ballyhoo notwithstanding &#8211; to repay\u00a0<em>half\u00a0<\/em>the shift. \u00a0And they did it after Mark Dayton unaccountably vetoed the GOP&#8217;s plan last session to pay back\u00a0<em>the entire shift<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But beyond that, there&#8217;s one other clinker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bin\/bldbill.php?bill=H0001.0.html&amp;session=ls88\">Take a look at the bill &#8211; HF1<\/a> &#8211; that relates to the &#8220;repayment&#8221; of the shift.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s missing from the bill?<\/p>\n<p>Answer below the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Any reference to where the money is going to come from.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning, presumably, the DFL is counting on unicorns to fly down from the sky bearing little treasure chests. \u00a0Perhaps full of platinum &#8220;get out of debt free&#8221; coins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week: \u00a0the DFL in the Legislature, with the aid of their PR arm in the Twin Cities media, exclaimed with great ballyhoo that they were going to &#8220;repay the school funding shift&#8221;. As we noted at the time, the DFL promised &#8211; ballyhoo notwithstanding &#8211; to repay\u00a0half\u00a0the shift. \u00a0And they did it after Mark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447","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=33447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33448,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33447\/revisions\/33448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}