{"id":3590,"date":"2008-11-04T13:02:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3590"},"modified":"2008-11-04T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T18:07:23","slug":"it-was-ten-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3590","title":{"rendered":"It Was Ten Years Ago&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on the same election night where Jesse Ventura got elected &#8220;Governor&#8221; that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.mn.us\/docs\/genstate1998.pdf\">I got around 37,855<\/a> votes for State Treasurer, running as a Libertarian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(My only platform plank?\u00a0 Abolish the office of State Treasurer.\u00a0 As luck would have it, that was also the subject of a ballot initiative that year, which passed by a 2-1 margin.\u00a0While some DFL hack got most of the votes, I declared moral victory; the people decided they didn&#8217;t need some party flak to do their abolishing for them).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this year, <a href=\"http:\/\/centrisity.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/i-voted-for-mitch-berg.html\">I didn&#8217;t even know my hat was in the ring<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on the same election night where Jesse Ventura got elected &#8220;Governor&#8221; that\u00a0I got around 37,855 votes for State Treasurer, running as a Libertarian.\u00a0 (My only platform plank?\u00a0 Abolish the office of State Treasurer.\u00a0 As luck would have it, that was also the subject of a ballot initiative that year, which passed by a 2-1 margin.\u00a0While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590","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=3590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}