{"id":40621,"date":"2013-12-19T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40621"},"modified":"2014-11-28T04:42:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T10:42:30","slug":"nepotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40621","title":{"rendered":"Like Chicago, With Lousy Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s see; we have a state majority installed largely through money coordinated by the Governor’s ex-wife and paid for by the her and his buddies from the country club.<\/p>\n

When Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton speaks, his lips are controlled by his chief of staff Bob Hume, who is very credibly rumored to be “romantically involved” – evidence indicates dating or married to, but the principals keep it under wraps – with Carrie Lucking, “executive director” of the Alliance for a “Better” Minnesota (Of course, we don’t know anything official; merely that during the Governor’s last budget speech, Lucking was tweeting picayune details of the budget that seem unlikely to have come from someone who hadn’t had an advance look at the proposal.\u00a0 Some say it’s because Hume must have given Lucking an advance look at the Governor’s budget.\u00a0 I’d suspect it was more like Lucking let Hume look at it.\u00a0 But I digress).<\/p>\n

And of course, the director of Minnesota’s flailing “MNSure” program spent two weeks during the catastrophic rollout of her website playing little spoon in Costa Rica to the state Medicaid director’s big spoon.<\/p>\n

So I suppose the real question about Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton’s hiring of Minnesota DFL Executive Director Ken Martin’s wife as his deputy chief of staff<\/a> isn’t “why all the nepotism”. \u00a0It’s “why isn’t the spouse of every powerful DFL functionary making six figures on the public teat”.<\/p>\n

Because clearly\u00a0someone\u00a0<\/em>reliable needs to be able to spell Bob Hume in making sure Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton doesn’t deviate from the chanting points. \u00a0Bob’s gotta be exhausted.<\/p>\n

It’s party time, Dems!<\/p>\n

(PS: Love the headline. \u00a0Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton hires a “well-connected” deputy? \u00a0No! \u00a0He hired his party chair’s wife.\u00a0 <\/em>Nope.\u00a0 No media bias whatsoever in the Twin Cities).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s see; we have a state majority installed largely through money coordinated by the Governor’s ex-wife and paid for by the her and his buddies from the country club. When Governor Messinger Dayton speaks, his lips are controlled by his chief of staff Bob Hume, who is very credibly rumored to be “romantically involved” – […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621","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=40621"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49445,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40621\/revisions\/49445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}