A longtime friend of this blog, and an elected official in the west metro, sends me this analysis:<\/p>\n
\nAttached is a revised copy of the GOP scumbags that voted in favor of\r\nfinal passage of the Twins Stadium bill. You'll note 13 of the 38\r\nturncoats were defeated or elected not to run and a DFLer took the seat.\r\n\r\nThis means: Of the 26 seats that were lost, 13 (aka 50%) voted for the\r\nTwins bill.\r\n\r\nCoincidence? Perhaps. But I call it a factor in the defeat.<\/tt><\/tt><\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\nHere’s the list:<\/p>\n
Won: Abeler (Anoka County)<\/p>\n
LOST: Blaine (Morrison County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
LOST: (retired, moved to DFL) Bradley (Olmsted County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Won: Brod (Sibley\/LeSueur Counties)<\/p>\n
LOST: Charron (Washington County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
LOST: Cox (Scott\/Goodhue Counties)<\/strong><\/p>\n
LOST: Cybart (Scott County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
LOST: Davids (Fillmore\/Houston Counties)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Won: Demmer (Dodge\/Steele Counties)<\/p>\n
LOST: (retired, moved to DFL) Dempsey (Goodhue County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
LOST: (retired, moved to DFL) Dorman (Freeborn County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Won: Finstad (Brown County)<\/p>\n
Won: Garofalo (Dakota County)<\/p>\n
LOST: Gazelka (Crow Wing County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Won: Gunther (Martin County)<\/p>\n
Won: Hamilton (Cottonwood County)<\/p>\n
Won: Heidgerken (Stearns\/Pope Counties)<\/p>\n
Won: Hoppe (Carver County)<\/p>\n
Won: Lanning (Clay County)<\/p>\n
Won: Magnus (Rock\/Murray\/Pipestone Counties)<\/p>\n
Won: McNamara (Washington County)<\/p>\n
Won: (retiring, held GOP) Meslow (Washington\/Anoka Counties)<\/p>\n
LOST: Peter Nelson (Chisago County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Won: Nornes (Ottertail County)<\/p>\n
Won: Ozment (Dakota County)<\/p>\n
LOST: (retired, moved to DFL) Penas (Roseau\/Kittson)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Won: Neil Peterson (HENNEPIN COUNTY)<\/p>\n
LOST: (retired, moved to DFL) Samuelson (Ramsey County)<\/strong><\/p>\n
Won: Severson (Benton County)<\/p>\n
Won: Simpson (Wadena\/Ottertail)<\/p>\n
Won: Sviggum (Wabasha\/Rice)<\/p>\n
Won: (retiring, held GOP) Sykora (HENNEPIN COUNTY)<\/p>\n
Won: Tingelstad (Anoka County)<\/p>\n
Won: Urdahl (Meeker County)<\/p>\n
Won: Wardlow (Dakota County)<\/p>\n
LOST: (retired, moved to DFL) Westerberg (Anoka County)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
No, I don’t <\/strong>think it’s a coincidence.<\/p>\n
When Republicans act like Republicans, we win.<\/em><\/p>\n
When we act like Democrats – awash in power, giddy over being in control of all the cool wheels and buttons and levers of government – we lose.<\/p>\n
Many Republicans needed a refresher. Many of them got it on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A longtime friend of this blog, and an elected official in the west metro, sends me this analysis: Attached is a revised copy of the GOP scumbags that voted in favor of final passage of the Twins Stadium bill. You’ll note 13 of the 38 turncoats were defeated or elected not to run and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-06"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}