{"id":36745,"date":"2013-06-13T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36745"},"modified":"2013-06-13T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:07:26","slug":"turd-polishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36745","title":{"rendered":"Turd-Polishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate to keep the stadium finance &#8220;plan&#8221;&#8230;er, afloat, the state is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/211316151.html\">making another big push <\/a>to try to sell &#8220;E-Pulltabs&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Duluth on Tuesday night, about 35 charities and bar owners showed up for a chance to test-drive all the electronic pulltab and bingo games now available in Minnesota. They got tips from charitable gambling leaders and bars along the North Shore who use them. They received the latest data from state officials on Minnesota\u2019s most popular e-gambling counties, the effect on charity collections and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen the machines before, but I\u2019ve never tried them,\u201d said Duluth bar owner Mike Ronning, checking out the electronic pulltabs. \u201cIt\u2019s fun. I just don\u2019t know if it\u2019s right for my place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The upshot:\u00a0 people are still keeping them at arms length.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders if we might have saved\u00a0a whole lot of trouble doing thisbeforethey made them the key revenue-generator in the state&#8217;s Viking stadium jamdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperate to keep the stadium finance &#8220;plan&#8221;&#8230;er, afloat, the state is making another big push to try to sell &#8220;E-Pulltabs&#8221;: In Duluth on Tuesday night, about 35 charities and bar owners showed up for a chance to test-drive all the electronic pulltab and bingo games now available in Minnesota. They got tips from charitable gambling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,59,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-pork-patrol","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36745","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=36745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36746,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36745\/revisions\/36746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}