{"id":36086,"date":"2013-05-02T07:17:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36086"},"modified":"2013-05-02T07:17:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:17:10","slug":"a-tale-of-two-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36086","title":{"rendered":"A Tale Of Two &#8220;Incidents&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton responds to a little laughing and just about the mildest heckling in the history of face-to-face politics:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/swf.tubechop.com\/tubechop.swf?vurl=cCNsO-pQ1tE&amp;start=0&amp;end=71&amp;cid=1155343\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/swf.tubechop.com\/tubechop.swf?vurl=cCNsO-pQ1tE&amp;start=0&amp;end=71&amp;cid=1155343\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Contrast: \u00a0Tom Emmer <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2010\/07\/robert_erickson_2.php\">responds to having a bag of 2,000 pennies dumped on him<\/a> by an ofay young stooge acting with the full approval of the entire DFL:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">I played hockey&#8230;and that actually got me to jump a little bit&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that was it.<\/p>\n<p>(Not that whinging like Governor <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton would have done any good; the DFL approved of young Robert Espinosa&#8217;s little stunt, and thus so did the media).<\/p>\n<p>Note to Governor <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton: we&#8217;re not your butlers and maids. \u00a0We pay the taxes &#8211; and those of us who pay attention notice that you and your idiot party are asking a lot of us to pay way too much. \u00a0For more and more people every day, it&#8217;s way more than this state is worth.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; I hope that noticing that people aren&#8217;t amused by your distracted noodling while your lieutenants and the special interests that put you in office gut the economy and our personal savings doesn&#8217;t scare you off from appearing in public (outside the Twin Cities metro, anyway); I&#8217;ve got some tough questions for you too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heckling&#8221;, I believe you and your praetorian guard call it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Messinger Dayton responds to a little laughing and just about the mildest heckling in the history of face-to-face politics: Contrast: \u00a0Tom Emmer responds to having a bag of 2,000 pennies dumped on him by an ofay young stooge acting with the full approval of the entire DFL: I played hockey&#8230;and that actually got me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086","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=36086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36088,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36086\/revisions\/36088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}