{"id":40974,"date":"2014-01-06T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40974"},"modified":"2014-01-05T06:07:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T12:07:51","slug":"they-know-what-matters-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40974","title":{"rendered":"They Know What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top priorities for Twin Cities Democrat politicians, staff, and media (pardon the redundancy):<\/p>\n

Deal with<\/a> the suddenly-crucial problem of cell phone theft<\/strong>: \u00a0“Kill switch” legislation a priority since the Mark Andrew incident. \u00a0Because it’s not really an issue until it happens to a DFL politician. \u00a0Of course, they’re still going to spend the coming session fighting against the citizen’s write to keep and bear “kill switches” to help prevent thugs from hitting your “kill switch” with a club, knife, or gun.<\/p>\n

For heaven’s sake, get Al Franken some cover from that “60th Vote on Medicare” thing<\/a><\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0There’s an election coming up, for Chrissake. \u00a0The editors put Kevin Diaz on the “Franken PR Flak” beat this time; his point is, naturally, that there were several “sixtieth votes”, potentially, over time. \u00a0Unmentioned; without Franken, all the others were irrelevant.<\/p>\n

Cardiac screening is job one!<\/strong>: \u00a0OK, not yet. \u00a0But I have a hunch with R. T. Rybak’s close call over the weekend, the problem will receive aggressive lip service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Top priorities for Twin Cities Democrat politicians, staff, and media (pardon the redundancy): Deal with the suddenly-crucial problem of cell phone theft: \u00a0“Kill switch” legislation a priority since the Mark Andrew incident. \u00a0Because it’s not really an issue until it happens to a DFL politician. \u00a0Of course, they’re still going to spend the coming session […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974","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=40974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40976,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974\/revisions\/40976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}