{"id":34393,"date":"2013-02-19T12:30:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34393"},"modified":"2014-11-28T04:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T10:42:30","slug":"keep-our-powder-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34393","title":{"rendered":"Keep Our Powder Dry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been a little nervous about this for weeks.<\/p>\n

Let me explain:<\/p>\n

The Minnesota GOP is a shambles – but this state is full of conservative people. \u00a0And while conservatives are not the kind to stand around waving signs for any old thing, when you get us riled up, we turn out in droves, and we punch way\u00a0<\/em>above our weight. \u00a0One conservative out on the street speaking out is worth four or five figures of Alida Messinger’s money.<\/p>\n

And the DFL knows this; they know that while they’ll get inundated with hard-working, well-informed, taxpaying folks when they propose radical and stupid legislation, that – unlike the people who turn out (and, often, are paid to turn out) for their events, they work for a living, don’t have unions giving them time off, can’t leave their lives on hold while they play politics for an extended time.<\/p>\n

And so they’ve been proposing an avalanche of radical and stupid legislation:<\/p>\n