{"id":34672,"date":"2013-02-28T07:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T13:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34672"},"modified":"2014-12-12T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:31:04","slug":"chanting-points-memo-window-dressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34672","title":{"rendered":"Chanting Points Memo: The Potemkin Push"},"content":{"rendered":"

With much fanfare, a few DFL figureheads are introducing a gay marriage bill<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMinnesotans spoke so loudly during this last election refusing to adopt that proposed constitutional amendment. It was a very clear statement, and I think we\u2019re now ready to take the next step, and it means everything to our families.\u201d<\/p>\n

Surrounded by supporters, Clark and Sen. Scott Dibble, who was instrumental in the anti-amendment campaign, said their side is prepared to combat the flood of national money that\u2019s been promised against the proposal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve been saying since the opening day of the session that the DFL was going to stall on gay marriage – and they have.<\/p>\n

And they’ll continue to; even the DFL’s house PR organs (including the\u00a0MinnPost<\/em>, from which I quote) note that the DFL leadership is going very slow:<\/p>\n

Although DFL leaders have said they personally support same-sex marriage, they haven\u2019t been overly enthusiastic in discussing legislative action with the press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is echoed in fundraising letters being sent to gay marriage supporters; outstate DFLers, already alarmed by the DFL’s gun grabs and a DFL tax bill that is going over outstate like a Lindsay Lohan one-woman show in Branson, are queasy about the bill; they remember (even if the media doesn’t) that the Marriage Amendment passed, often convincingly, in most of Minnesota; it was stopped by cataclysmic turnout in the Metro.<\/p>\n

Where, unlike greater Minnesota, the issue is a winner for the DFL.<\/p>\n

My fearless prediction: \u00a0the DFL will introduce the bill with much fanfare (ok, that’s not a prediction, that’s what happened). \u00a0It’ll quietly die in committee. \u00a0And the Alliance for a Better Minnesota will send its flying monkeys out next year to spin the death as perfidy by a GOP caucus that, in fact, controls nothing.<\/p>\n

Final scorecard: \u00a0those who prosper from low-information voters: 1. \u00a0Gays who wish to marry: \u00a00.<\/p>\n

And so it shall stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With much fanfare, a few DFL figureheads are introducing a gay marriage bill: \u201cMinnesotans spoke so loudly during this last election refusing to adopt that proposed constitutional amendment. It was a very clear statement, and I think we\u2019re now ready to take the next step, and it means everything to our families.\u201d Surrounded by supporters, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,323,108,27,132],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-34672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney","category-chanting-points-memo","category-men-and-women","category-mn-legislature","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34672","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=34672"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49726,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34672\/revisions\/49726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}