{"id":4367,"date":"2009-03-10T07:04:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4367"},"modified":"2009-03-10T07:06:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T12:06:40","slug":"gerbils","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4367","title":{"rendered":"Loyal Opposition?  Meet Skullduggerous Supporters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the MOB last weekend, the Minnesota blogosphere got to meet another of a very small, elite group; Saint Paul Republican bloggers.\u00a0 Fresch Fisch made his public debut.<\/p>\n<p>And oy, does this city need him.<\/p>\n<p>He notes that <a href=\"http:\/\/freschfisch.com\/2009\/03\/10\/my-mayor-is-cheating-on-me.aspx\">some Democrats are upset at Mayor Coleman<\/a>.\u00a0 Not over soaring taxes and eroding services, mind you.<\/p>\n<p>For having allowed Republicans into Saint Paul:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s gotta be tough to be Mayor Chris Coleman these days. The political right has never been fond of the man, and now, neither is the hard core left.A new website <a href=\"http:\/\/mymayorischeatingonme.com\/\">My Mayor is Cheating on Me <\/a>is bound to have the folks loyal to Mr. Coleman all up in a fuss!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s gotta be a bad time to be DFL mayor; when there&#8217;s no more blood in the turnip, the turnips get upset when you squeeze &#8217;em too hard&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, being a DFL&#8217;er when there is no money to spend, either at the state or local level. Just think of having to run for office and not being able to promise more stuff so everyone will vote for you.<\/p>\n<p>Second, being a DFL mayor and inviting those darn Republicans to town! Just think, Karl Rove was in our town!<\/p>\n<p>Then, accommodating all the leftist &#8220;protesters&#8221; before the convention and then having the gall to stop them from damaging public and private property! Hey, that&#8217;s my city you are damaging!<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Coleman has tough times ahead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe, although the &#8220;My Mayor&#8230;&#8221; blog isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s gonna do it. It&#8217;s a typical lefty smearblog; anonymous, gutless, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networksolutions.com\/whois-search\/mymayorischeatingonme.com\">scrubbed clean <\/a>of any traceable information&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;except writing style.<\/p>\n<p>I have a hunch I know who it is.\u00a0 No proof, so I&#8217;m not gonna go on about it.\u00a0 But there are a few hints.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, Mayor Coleman has plenty to worry about.\u00a0 I doubt this blog is it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the MOB last weekend, the Minnesota blogosphere got to meet another of a very small, elite group; Saint Paul Republican bloggers.\u00a0 Fresch Fisch made his public debut. And oy, does this city need him. He notes that some Democrats are upset at Mayor Coleman.\u00a0 Not over soaring taxes and eroding services, mind you. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367","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=4367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}