{"id":36054,"date":"2013-05-01T06:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36054"},"modified":"2013-05-01T06:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:40:23","slug":"what-could-go-wrong-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36054","title":{"rendered":"What Could Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take a governor who rarely sets foot in front of the public, and usually leaves the “dealing with the proles” thing to his press secretary Katie Tinucci and his ex-wife’s consiglieri<\/em> Carrie Lucking.<\/p>\n

Put him in front of a crowd that hasn’t been carefully screened for obedience, with some spectators who are fighting and losing the battle to stay in the state they, for whatever reason, love – and are losing, with taxes and fees and regulations slowing eating first the ability to start a business, and finally the impetus to live here at all.<\/p>\n

Let one of them heckle His Excellency.<\/p>\n

What could possibly happen?<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

I imagine King George felt this way<\/a> about his peasants, too, right around 1775 or so.<\/p>\n

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Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He’s referring to this bit of video:
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The Associated Press, in its capacity as part of the governor’s media Praetorian Guard, wrote:<\/p>\n

The room apparently erupted into heckling and interruptions when Dayton was trying to explain his belief that state lawmakers should get a raise in pay.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Minnesota Jobs Coalition, a Republican political committee working to unseat Dayton next year, recorded the meeting and publicized the governor’s comments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out the video – or go to the piece that Joe linked, which has the longer version of the video. \u00a0Tell us if “the room erupted”.<\/p>\n

It’s preposterous. \u00a0The crowd laughs when Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton tells them the Legislature is underpaid; a heckler points out that the legislators get a little over $31K a year for a “part-time” job – which it is (40 or more hours a week for about half the year). Dayton insults the audience.<\/p>\n

It’ll be interesting to watch what happens with these meetings in the future. \u00a0If they happen, look for the first several rows to be pre-filled with adoring fans. \u00a0That’s what the legislature tried to do during the gun hearings, and that’s my fearless prediction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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