{"id":35983,"date":"2013-04-25T06:58:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35983"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:39:55","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:39:55","slug":"as-the-ironic-tsunami-rolls-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35983","title":{"rendered":"As The Ironic Tsunami Rolls In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Scott Honour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;cad=rja&amp;ved=0CDkQqQIwAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.startribune.com%2Fpolitics%2Fstatelocal%2F204544321.html&amp;ei=JBh5UayZBsmVqQGJ7oDYBQ&amp;usg=AFQjCNG_yj89OW7EJlu7xbdtIgpVWqAoUw&amp;sig2=KuAMW9m6g2KU8RZJdHaWhg&amp;bvm=bv.45645796,d.aWM\">threw his hat into the ring for governor<\/a> yesterday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I love Minnesota. But I fear that our state is headed in the wrong direction, and under the wrong leadership. I know that the same people with the same political resumes are not going to solve our problems,&#8221; Honour said in a mass email. Honour has not run for any major political office before in Minnesota and several Republicans have said they may be interesting in challenging Dayton as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As soon as Honour made the announcement, Carrie Lucking tweeted:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>I think Honour might have more yachts than Romney, judging by the pics. Potential slogan: Yachts for MN! <a title=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/i\/1XQ6P\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/x7b1Ca5r9S\">ow.ly\/i\/1XQ6P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carrie Lucking (@CarrieLucking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarrieLucking\/status\/327147081305296896\">April 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>and&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>I&#8217;m surprised Honour doesn&#8217;t have a Scrooge McDuck money pool in the back yard.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carrie Lucking (@CarrieLucking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarrieLucking\/status\/327151149956358145\">April 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>I imagine Honour is against asking the rich&#8230;er, I mean him&#8230;to pay their\/his fair share.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Carrie Lucking (@CarrieLucking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CarrieLucking\/status\/327153293757403136\">April 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lucking, of course, is Executive <del>Assistant<\/del> Director\u00a0of &#8220;Alliance for a Better Minnesota&#8221;, an organization largely bankrolled by a Rockefeller heiress, largely launched to aid the career of a feckless trust-fund baby; the organization is attacking a guy who actually\u00a0<em>earned\u00a0<\/em>his money, unlike any of Lucking&#8217;s benefactors.<\/p>\n<p>And so it&#8217;s on to another campaign battling for the low-information voter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Scott Honour threw his hat into the ring for governor yesterday. &#8220;I love Minnesota. But I fear that our state is headed in the wrong direction, and under the wrong leadership. I know that the same people with the same political resumes are not going to solve our problems,&#8221; Honour said in a mass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,144,2],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-35983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983","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=35983"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47896,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35983\/revisions\/47896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}