{"id":46986,"date":"2014-09-08T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46986"},"modified":"2014-09-08T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:02:36","slug":"trojan-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46986","title":{"rendered":"Trojan Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: Members of the MNGOP Judicial Elections Committee<br \/>\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant<br \/>\nRe: \u00a0Weasel Words<\/p>\n<p>JEC,<\/p>\n<p>First things first; I&#8217;m an elected party officer, so I&#8217;ll support our party&#8217;s endorsed candidates. \u00a0So &#8211; yaaaay, Ms. McDonald.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Ms. McDonald&#8217;s candidacy <a title=\"The MNGOP\u2019s Judicial Goat Rodeo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46614\">has turned into a Bolivian Goat Rodeo<\/a>; \u00a0the DFL and Media (ptr) on the one hand are caviling and gamboling about the story like happy little pixies. \u00a0And some of the Ron Paul clacque &#8211; who were non-factors in this year&#8217;s caucuses, for the most part &#8211; have latched onto the whole episode as a way to try to stick it to the state GOP.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;ve asked a number of members of the JEC &#8211; in this space, in other online fora, and in person &#8211; to explain&#8230;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why the committee voted to endorse Ms. McDonald, if they did, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;more importantly, why the committee voted to suppress the &#8220;minority report&#8221; &#8211; supported by the committee chair &#8211; that would have informed delegates about Ms. McDonald&#8217;s legal issues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;answers&#8221; I&#8217;ve gotten have been, to be charitable, \u00a0weasel words. \u00a0The kind of thing that would shame a punch-drunk fourth-grader. \u00a0Silence, or idiotic little cutiepie resopnses (&#8220;Ask Chairman Downey!&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>So far, I&#8217;ve thought of this whole episode as incompetence on the part of the JEC &#8211; and knowing a few of the people who are on the JEC and\/or heavily involved in JEC business, it&#8217;s not a stretchy theory.<\/p>\n<p>The other possibility that jumps out at you, seeing some of the people involved? \u00a0It was an intentional sandbagging of the GOP by people who have a bone to pick with the party&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The more I hear about this sorry episode, the more I&#8217;m leaning toward &#8220;sabotage&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Members of the MNGOP Judicial Elections Committee From: Mitch Berg, Uppity Peasant Re: \u00a0Weasel Words JEC, First things first; I&#8217;m an elected party officer, so I&#8217;ll support our party&#8217;s endorsed candidates. \u00a0So &#8211; yaaaay, Ms. McDonald. Of course, Ms. McDonald&#8217;s candidacy has turned into a Bolivian Goat Rodeo; \u00a0the DFL and Media (ptr) on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,72,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circular-firing-squad","category-mngop","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46986","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=46986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46989,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46986\/revisions\/46989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}