{"id":44214,"date":"2014-05-22T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44214"},"modified":"2014-05-22T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T14:02:55","slug":"democrat-fatcat-largesse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44214","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Fatcat Largesse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Think you’re done paying for football?<\/p>\n

Hah.\u00a0 Dream on, peasant ripe-sucks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Helga Braid Nation is doing cartwheels that “we” will be hosting a Super Bowl in 2018 at “our” stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And Mark Dayton is going to soak up whatever sunlight the event gives him among the “Happy To Have Someone Else Pay For My Bread And Circuses” set:<\/p>\n

Dayton and members of the city’s bid committee held a news conference Wednesday to celebrate landing the Super Bowl. The NFL chose Minneapolis largely because of its new stadium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, yeah – even though none of us will be able to afford to attend this particular circus, we’ll all be subsidizing it:<\/p>\n

The governor says the state has made no commitments for tax breaks to the NFL apart from a sales tax exemption for Super Bowl tickets that remains on the books from when Minnesota hosted it in 1992.<\/p>\n

But Michele Kelm-Helgen, chair of the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, says organizers may ask for sales tax exemptions for some of the other festivities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here’s a note to Minnesota’s Republicans; here would be a great time to draw the line on the whole “limited government” thing.\u00a0 Also the “subsidizing billionaires” thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So the next time you find yourselves surrounded by The Walking Meat all dressed up in purple and pounding the Idiot Drums, think to yourselves; in 2012, Mitt Romney and a whole bunch of Minnesota Republicans lost, not because independents didn’t vote GOP – they did – but because conservatives, angry about serial betrayals on the whole “limited government” thing (Vikings stadia, caving in on budget hikes in 2011 before the negotiations even began, etc), stayed home in droves.<\/p>\n

(If the Bears aren’t playing, I don’t care.\u00a0 And if the Vikings are playing, I’ll bring Scarlett Johannson as my date).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think you’re done paying for football? Hah.\u00a0 Dream on, peasant ripe-sucks. Helga Braid Nation is doing cartwheels that “we” will be hosting a Super Bowl in 2018 at “our” stadium.\u00a0 And Mark Dayton is going to soak up whatever sunlight the event gives him among the “Happy To Have Someone Else Pay For My Bread […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,123,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dayton-dustbowl","category-taxes","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44214","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=44214"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44220,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44214\/revisions\/44220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}