{"id":4510,"date":"2009-04-02T07:23:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T12:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4510"},"modified":"2009-04-02T07:26:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T12:26:49","slug":"let-them-eat-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4510","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Minnesotans tighten their belts, DFL Attorney General Lori Swanson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotademocratsexposed.com\/2009\/04\/01\/extreme-makeover-hatchswanson-edition\/\">spends the equivalent of ten typical peoples&#8217; incomes<\/a> giving her offices some TLC.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Flynn at MDE:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What most of people never see is the office where the attorney general actually works in the Capitol. It\u2019s behind the main reception area away from public view.<\/p>\n<p>And, at taxpayer\u2019s expense, nearly $400,000 of repairs and alterations have been done since 2006 at the attorney general\u2019s office at the Capitol and at offices in downtown St. Paul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t that the kind of thing that got people exercised about AIG?<\/p>\n<blockquote \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Minnesotans tighten their belts, DFL Attorney General Lori Swanson spends the equivalent of ten typical peoples&#8217; incomes giving her offices some TLC. Ryan Flynn at MDE: What most of people never see is the office where the attorney general actually works in the Capitol. It\u2019s behind the main reception area away from public view. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510","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=4510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}