{"id":47363,"date":"2014-09-24T07:52:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T12:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47363"},"modified":"2014-09-24T18:14:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T23:14:54","slug":"the-dfls-edina-brahmins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=47363","title":{"rendered":"The DFL&#8217;s Edina Brahmins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the DFL hate the First Amendment?<\/p>\n<p>Trackers \u2013 interns for various campaigns and groups  filming footage of politicians giving speeches and doing other public appearances \u2013 have been a fixture of Minnesota political life for at least a decade now.  Most politicians \u2013 and by &#8220;most&#8221; I mean &#8220;everyone I&#8217;ve encountered, from every party, so far&#8221; \u2013 accepts that with good grace, and tries not to say something stupid.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently &#8220;good grace&#8221; is<a href=\"http:\/\/m.watchdog.org\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwatchdog.org%2F172758%2Ffocus-forum-turns-candidates-video-tracker%2F\"> beyond DFL Rep. Paul Rosethal, from District 49B in Edina<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou\u2019re in the Edina City Hall. You\u2019re not allowed to be here without their permission to film. So I\u2019d appreciate your leaving,\u201d Rosenthal said in an exchange posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s a public building\u201d replied [photographer Ethan] Hellier.<br \/>\n\u201cThank you, thank you, thank you,\u201d said Rosenthal, moving in front of the camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Clever, Mr. Rosenthal.<\/p>\n<p>At least, compared to representative Ron Erhardt, from District 498, who seems to be going more and more Tony Soprano as he gets older (With emphasis gleefully added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Ron Erhardt, a Democrat, took a different approach.<br \/>\n\u201c<strong>Do you know what would happen to that thing if we dropped it? Probably wouldn\u2019t work very well.<\/strong> Now would you back off please?\u201d Erhardt said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> At least he isn&#8217;t threatening to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.citypages.com\/blotter\/2014\/08\/rep_ron_erhardt_allegedly_said_ill_blow_your_head_off_when_contacted_by_gun_rights_group.php\">blow Mr. Helier&#8217;s head off<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Edina \u2013 these are the thugs you sent to StPaul in 2012. Let&#8217;s shoot for better this time, okay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does the DFL hate the First Amendment? Trackers \u2013 interns for various campaigns and groups filming footage of politicians giving speeches and doing other public appearances \u2013 have been a fixture of Minnesota political life for at least a decade now. Most politicians \u2013 and by &#8220;most&#8221; I mean &#8220;everyone I&#8217;ve encountered, from every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,20,132,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-14","category-democrats","category-mn-legislature","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47363","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=47363"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47404,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47363\/revisions\/47404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}