{"id":35268,"date":"2013-03-19T12:45:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35268"},"modified":"2013-03-19T12:46:05","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:46:05","slug":"theyre-winging-it-and-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35268","title":{"rendered":"They’re Winging It. And Badly."},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Ben Lien (DFL Moorhead) was interviewed about two weeks ago on one of the Fargo TV stations by Fargo talk host Chris Berg (no relation that I know of).<\/p>\n

This first question was in re whether Lien would support a business services tax increase (which was at that time on the table, but is putatively off it now):<\/p>\n

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The answer to the question “would you support these taxes?” from this very red-county Representative would seem to be “I’ll wait until I get my talking points from Alida”.<\/p>\n

And asked if he believes Governor Dayton’s attacks on corporations – the idea that they are tax-avoiding sponges that don’t carry their fair share of the state’s tax burden – this one is hilarious:<\/p>\n

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Citizens of Moorhead – a fairly red place, indeed: what were you thinking?<\/p>\n

(View the entire eight minute interview here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rep. Ben Lien (DFL Moorhead) was interviewed about two weeks ago on one of the Fargo TV stations by Fargo talk host Chris Berg (no relation that I know of). This first question was in re whether Lien would support a business services tax increase (which was at that time on the table, but is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35268","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=35268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35271,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35268\/revisions\/35271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}