{"id":37039,"date":"2013-07-01T07:47:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37039"},"modified":"2013-07-01T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T14:00:50","slug":"priorities-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37039","title":{"rendered":"Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Governor <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">Messinger<\/span>Dayton sent out a fundraising email blast (that didn&#8217;t involve asking Sotheby&#8217;s to help him hock a Renoir).<\/p>\n<p>The interesting part (emphasis added)?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I ran for Governor because I knew that our state was falling behind. Cuts to education, endless gridlock, and budget gimmicks jeopardized our shared future.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re starting to turn Minnesota around by investing in our schools, training our workers, and, critically, recognizing the freedom to marry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The school and &#8220;worker training&#8221; &#8220;Investments&#8221; are the usual double-talk, of course&#8230;:<\/p>\n<p>But was gay marriage really &#8220;critical?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I mean, sure &#8211; to gays marriage activists it was. And one can even argue it was (or was not) the right thing to.<\/p>\n<p>But to the overall conduct of this state? Especially it&#8217;s\u00a0economy?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a jobless mine worker? If you just got laid off from your medical device manufacturing job? If your company is moving to Texas? If you&#8217;re shopping for new daycare?<\/p>\n<p>How &#8220;critical&#8221; was gay marriage?<\/p>\n<p>Is gay marriage &#8220;critical?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Governor MessingerDayton sent out a fundraising email blast (that didn&#8217;t involve asking Sotheby&#8217;s to help him hock a Renoir). The interesting part (emphasis added)? I ran for Governor because I knew that our state was falling behind. Cuts to education, endless gridlock, and budget gimmicks jeopardized our shared future. We\u2019re starting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-culture-war","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37039","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=37039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37046,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37039\/revisions\/37046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}