{"id":3600,"date":"2008-11-05T07:34:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2008-11-05T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T15:36:51","slug":"the-biggest-loser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Loser&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;last night?<\/p>\n<p>Mark &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Guy&#8221; Richie, former DFL &#8220;community organizer&#8221; and party hack, and current Minnesota &#8220;Secretary of State&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In my four hours on the air last night, I could not once get election results from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.mn.us\/home\/index.asp?page=4\">the\u00a0<strike>POS<\/strike> SOS\u00a0website<\/a>.\u00a0 I got constant server errors; &#8220;the server can not handle current traffic levels&#8221; (and, as this is written, it&#8217;s <em>still <\/em>down!).<\/p>\n<p>Under Mary Kiffmeyer &#8211; the <em>utterly<\/em> capable SOS that Richie deposed in the bloodbath of 2006 &#8211; the site ran like a charm.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect Mark Richie to be in there cranking out ASP code on his own &#8211; but delivering election results to the people is a part of his job.\u00a0 A <em>big <\/em>part.<\/p>\n<p>I think the move to toss this amateur poseur from office needs to take on Manhattan Project-level urgency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;last night? Mark &#8220;I&#8217;m Not Guy&#8221; Richie, former DFL &#8220;community organizer&#8221; and party hack, and current Minnesota &#8220;Secretary of State&#8221;.\u00a0 In my four hours on the air last night, I could not once get election results from the\u00a0POS SOS\u00a0website.\u00a0 I got constant server errors; &#8220;the server can not handle current traffic levels&#8221; (and, as this [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","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=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}