{"id":36232,"date":"2013-05-09T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36232"},"modified":"2013-05-09T06:20:19","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T11:20:19","slug":"priorities-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36232","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this yesterday from a source at the Capitol:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?attachment_id=35213\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35213\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-35213\" title=\"DaytonDustbowl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DaytonDustbowl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0\u201cPeople are beginning to whisper the words:\u00a0 Special session.\u00a0 As of late yesterday afternoon, the final Finance bill (Transportation\/Public Safety) was finally released, which included a 7.5 cent gas tax increase.\u00a0 With not a single omnibus bill back from conference committee and [Transportation\/Public Safety] still in the Tax committee (and you can\u2019t take up any bill until 3 days of notification), there is no way we will have a complete budget prior to 5\/15, at the earliest.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/news\/stories\/s2922060.shtml \">wasn\u2019t it Tom Bakk that said we won\u2019t take that up until we have a budget<\/a>?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>With not ONE omnibus bill to run the State government on the Governor\u2019s desk, we don\u2019t have a budget.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let that rattle around your noggin for a bit; the DFL that ran by telling the people (wrongly) that the MNGOP was focused on social issues has just spent nearly the entire session trying to unionize daycares, grab guns and legislate gay marriage &#8211; and stands a chance of needing a special session because <em>the DFL Senate, House and Governor can&#8217;t agree with each other.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is what happens when you put the arrested adolescents in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this yesterday from a source at the Capitol: \u00a0\u201cPeople are beginning to whisper the words:\u00a0 Special session.\u00a0 As of late yesterday afternoon, the final Finance bill (Transportation\/Public Safety) was finally released, which included a 7.5 cent gas tax increase.\u00a0 With not a single omnibus bill back from conference committee and [Transportation\/Public Safety] still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36232","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=36232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36234,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36232\/revisions\/36234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}