{"id":43232,"date":"2014-04-21T07:10:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T12:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43232"},"modified":"2014-04-21T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T13:11:08","slug":"for-it-before-he-was-against-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43232","title":{"rendered":"For It Before He Was Against It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken supported a program that uses taxpayer money to give foreign companies a leg up in the market over US companies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;until <a href=\"http:\/\/o.dailycaller.com\/all\/2014-04-18-why-australias-richest-person-may-doom-al-franken#1\">someone whispered<\/a> &#8220;Hey, Al &#8211; this directly harms Minnesota business, and uses Minnesotans&#8217; tax dollars to do it&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But in politics, policy must become parochial for a politician before they see the error of their ways. In July of 2013, the Bank\u2019s activities became a threat to Minnesotans and for Franken, who voted to reauthorize the Bank just months earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Half a billion worth of business (provided you&#8217;re a crony of Franken and his clique). \u00a0Good, right?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently Franken needed reminding that\u00a0<em>Minnesotans\u00a0<\/em>are his constituents; he reversed his vote when someone apparently reminded him of this factoid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-style: italic;\">But when the citizens of Minnesota were in danger of being directly and substantially harmed, Mr. Franken suddenly became \u201cconcerned.\u201d&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>U.S. iron ore production is concentrated in Michigan and Minnesota&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Australia is in the midst of an economic boom right now, due in significant part to the expansion of its mining industry.<\/p>\n<p>And how&#8217;s the Iron Range doing these days?<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8211; let&#8217;s place some odds on whether MPR, the Strib or the MinnPost ever cover this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Franken supported a program that uses taxpayer money to give foreign companies a leg up in the market over US companies&#8230; &#8230;until someone whispered &#8220;Hey, Al &#8211; this directly harms Minnesota business, and uses Minnesotans&#8217; tax dollars to do it&#8230;&#8221;. But in politics, policy must become parochial for a politician before they see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,155,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-mn-congressional","category-senator-franken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43232","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=43232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43245,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43232\/revisions\/43245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}