Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n
Republicans take Minnesota House, Democrats retain Governorship, fundamental disagreement over amount and direction of spending. Another state government shut-down coming this Summer?<\/p>\n
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Republicans should start battle-space preparation in the media today. They can start by finding the list of all the \u201cessential\u201d services from the last shut-down, re-frame the debate by declaring all other spending has been judicially determined to be non-essential, and set the tone of the debate by demanding the Governor join them in refusing to waste taxpayer\u2019s hard-earned money on \u201cfrivolous\u201d spending. Every time he wants to justify the spending, claim he\u2019s trying to overthrow the rightful powers of the judicial branch, which is Un-American.<\/p>\n
Set up dozens of websites aimed at DFL legislators in purple districts: \u201cSen. Johnson\u2019s Follies\u201d to list all the stupid spending he voted for, with a big flashing total in alarming red letters saying \u201cHe wasted more money in three months than you\u2019ll make in your LIFETIME. Tell him to STOP. Call him at this number.\u201d Purely for educational purposes, of course, to inform the voters of his record.<\/p>\n
And find somebody to start a series of Internet ads and bus shelter posters attacking Robber Barons Buying Minnesota Elections. Why should the Koch brothers be the only boogymen? Why not the Rockefellers?<\/p>\n
And find somebody to start a Twitter hashtag proclaiming Extortion Elected Klobachar, to raise public awareness that unions are the biggest donors in Minnesota elections by far.<\/p>\n
To run it, we need somebody really smart and also a little crazy. I\u2019m thinking John Gilmore.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The possibilities abound.
\nWill the GOP \u2013 or, more importantly, Minnesota business \u2013 bite?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Republicans take Minnesota House, Democrats retain Governorship, fundamental disagreement over amount and direction of spending. Another state government shut-down coming this Summer? Republicans should start battle-space preparation in the media today. They can start by finding the list of all the \u201cessential\u201d services from the last shut-down, re-frame […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887","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=48887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48889,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48887\/revisions\/48889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}