{"id":4795,"date":"2009-05-18T06:53:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T11:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2009-05-18T06:53:20","modified_gmt":"2009-05-18T11:53:20","slug":"afscme-to-dfl-bark-for-your-treat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4795","title":{"rendered":"AFSCME To DFL: &#8220;Bark For Your Treat!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFSCME is <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/polinaut\/archive\/2009\/05\/override_antici.shtml?refid=0\">yanking the DFL&#8217;s leashes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Union workers greeted legislators today with chants of &#8220;override&#8221; outside the Minnesota House chamber.Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 5 were anticipating a vote to try to overturn Governor Tim Pawlenty&#8217;s recent veto of a $1 billion tax bill. Democrats say the revenue is needed to help erase a $4.6 billion budget deficit and protect schools, hospitals and nursing homes. The Republican governor opposes any tax increase. Union leader Eliot Seide said public employees want a balanced budget solution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, no.\u00a0 They want a &#8220;balanced budget solution&#8221; that allows plenty of extra spending, especially on AFSCME pork.<\/p>\n<p>Glad we&#8217;re clear on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFSCME is yanking the DFL&#8217;s leashes: Union workers greeted legislators today with chants of &#8220;override&#8221; outside the Minnesota House chamber.Members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 5 were anticipating a vote to try to overturn Governor Tim Pawlenty&#8217;s recent veto of a $1 billion tax bill. Democrats say the revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","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=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}