{"id":34254,"date":"2013-02-12T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34254"},"modified":"2013-02-12T07:22:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T13:22:22","slug":"dfl-above-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34254","title":{"rendered":"DFL: Above The Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine if a Republican legislator did this?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/embed?video_id=10151420352836764\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video of registered gun-grabber lobbyist Heather Martens <em>introducing a bill<\/em> for &#8220;Representative&#8221; Alice Hausman last week at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>The DFL &#8211; including committee chair Michael Paymar, the night of the hearings &#8211; claim that lobbyists speak the the committee all the time.<\/p>\n<p>But this isn&#8217;t just &#8220;speaking to the committee&#8221;. This is introducing a bill for consideration by our elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Hausman claimed that she had other committee assignments &#8211; but the committee she chairs didn&#8217;t meet on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Are the people of Minnesota &#8211; even you liberals &#8211; going to tolerate having your representation handed over to <em>registered lobbyists<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you imagine if a Republican legislator did this? Video of registered gun-grabber lobbyist Heather Martens introducing a bill for &#8220;Representative&#8221; Alice Hausman last week at the Capitol. The DFL &#8211; including committee chair Michael Paymar, the night of the hearings &#8211; claim that lobbyists speak the the committee all the time. But this isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254","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=34254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34256,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254\/revisions\/34256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}