{"id":4663,"date":"2009-04-27T05:55:15","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T10:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2011-09-01T07:46:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T12:46:17","slug":"kudos-to-rep-ellison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"Kudos To Rep. Ellison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone in our government puts their butt where their mouth is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/national\/house\/43772302.html?elr=KArksUUUU\">on Darfur: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ellison said he and the other members of Congress who were arrested succeeded in bringing national attention to the Darfur crisis that they wouldn&#8217;t have received otherwise. &#8220;I could have sent out a press release, but it would be, &#8216;Yeah, so what?'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True.<\/p>\n<p>And every day Rep. Ellison is in jail is a day he&#8217;s not voting to enact his ruinous agenda.<\/p>\n<p>It was a win-win.<\/p>\n<p>Please, Rep. Ellison; let me letter your next sign.\u00a0 And perhaps you could take Rep. McCollum with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally someone in our government puts their butt where their mouth is on Darfur: Ellison said he and the other members of Congress who were arrested succeeded in bringing national attention to the Darfur crisis that they wouldn&#8217;t have received otherwise. &#8220;I could have sent out a press release, but it would be, &#8216;Yeah, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","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=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22291,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions\/22291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}