(SCENE: \u00a0MITCH Berg is bowling at the Minnehaha Lanes. \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE steps up to the next lane, laces up shoes as MITCH rolls a “6”).<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hah hah, Merg. \u00a0You have nobody to run against Al Franken. \u00a0He’ll coast to another term.<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0Well, we’ll see. \u00a0The campaign is still very young.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0And the Governor’s race! \u00a0 What, Jeff Johnson? \u00a0He ran for attorney General, and lost! \u00a0He’s over!<\/p>\n
MITCH: \u00a0Er, Governor Messinger ran a couple of races and lost before he latched on as Senator and then Governor. \u00a0He ran what was at one point the most expensive failed race in state history again, back in the eighties.<\/p>\n
LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Angrily) It’s Governor Dayton.<\/em><\/p>\n MITCH: \u00a0Oops. \u00a0Not sure how that happened.<\/p>\n LIBRELLE: \u00a0Pft. \u00a0Anyway, he’s \u00a0different!<\/p>\n MITCH: \u00a0You’re right. \u00a0He had an adoring media painting his toenails and covering up his issues.<\/p>\n LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Puts scoresheet on desk, steps up to the lane). \u00a0Waaah.<\/p>\n MITCH: \u00a0Well, you’ve got a point. \u00a0It’s a whole new race.<\/p>\n LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Elaborately prepares to roll ball; all sorts of shimmying and twitching) And what else? \u00a0You’v got Scott Honour. \u00a0He’s Minnesota’s Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n MITCH: (Rolls the second ball – misses the spare by one) \u00a0You say that like it’s a bad thing. \u00a0Two guys who actually earned their fortunes.<\/p>\n LIBRELLE: \u00a0Did you hear me? \u00a0He’s\u00a0Minnesota’s Mitt Romney! \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n MITCH: \u00a0Right. \u00a0I guess that makes Mark Messinger…er, Dayton – our George Soros.<\/p>\n LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hah hah hah! \u00a0There\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>no such thing as George Soros.<\/p>\n MITCH: \u00a0Hm. \u00a0(Mitch steps back to mark last ball)<\/p>\n LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Steps down the lane. \u00a0Backswings. \u00a0Forgets to release. \u00a0Hits self in face with ball. \u00a0Falls over)<\/p>\n MITCH: (Runs over to render assistance) \u00a0Avery? \u00a0You OK? \u00a0Can you hear me?<\/p>\n LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Dazed, incoherent) \u00a0I’m happy to pay for a better Minnesota.<\/p>\n MITCH: \u00a0I knew it.<\/p>\n (And SCENE)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (SCENE: \u00a0MITCH Berg is bowling at the Minnehaha Lanes. \u00a0Avery LIBRELLE steps up to the next lane, laces up shoes as MITCH rolls a “6”). LIBRELLE: \u00a0Hah hah, Merg. \u00a0You have nobody to run against Al Franken. \u00a0He’ll coast to another term. MITCH: \u00a0Well, we’ll see. \u00a0The campaign is still very young. LIBRELLE: \u00a0And the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,144,155],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-36194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-governor","category-mn-congressional","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194","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=36194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38194,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36194\/revisions\/38194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}