{"id":4917,"date":"2009-06-12T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2009-06-12T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T13:33:09","slug":"nature-abhors-a-vacuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4917","title":{"rendered":"Nature Abhors A Vacuum"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my post last week about the MNGOP leadership battle<\/a>, I noted three things:<\/p>\n

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  1. I don’t do endorsements. I mean, if I did, who’d care?\u00a0 I’m small potatoes. It’d be the height of misplaced ego to think my “endorsement” would matter to anyone.\u00a0 And not only am I not a Central Committee voter, but I think I only know one or two Central Committee voters personally.<\/li>\n
  2. I think Tony Sutton will do a good job as party chair – which is a good thing, because due to the nature of the State Chair race, he’s got a huge electoral leg up.<\/li>\n
  3. Nonetheless, I’m givign a loud “attaboy” to Dave Thompson, if only to send a (tiny) message to the party; the status quo is not working.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Ironically, I’ve gotten more flak about the Deputy <\/em>chair race; I’m told that I (among a few others) was removed from the running to MC a candidate debate because of my alleged allegiance to one candidate or another in the Deputy Chair debate.\u00a0 To be perfectly honest, I barely knew what a Deputy Chair was <\/em>before this go-around, and wasn’t entirely sure why it mattered until fairly recently.<\/p>\n

    Which isn’t to say I don’t have a dog in the fight.\u00a0 Michael Brodkorb’s a friend and former Northern Alliance colleague.\u00a0 I have a generalized sense he’ll do a good job, if only because he’s a butt-kicking “make-things-happen” one man political wrecking crew, and if for some reason the MNGOP administration were called upon to, say, build a bridge across the Minnesota River, Mike’d have the cars rolling early and under budget.<\/p>\n

    But I have no grounds to “endorse” anyone in the Deputy Chair race since, duh, I haven’t really formed a coherent opninion.<\/p>\n

    But Pat Shortridge has:<\/a><\/p>\n

    I didn\u2019t intend to become involved in the MN GOP leadership races. I helped Brandon Sawalich frame his ideas about reforming and modernizing the state party when he was considering a run for Chairman. But, until now, that has been the extent of my involvement.<\/p>\n

    But, having read and heard many of the, what I consider to be, unfair criticisms of Michael Brodkorb, I decided to share some of my thoughts. The conservative blogosphere has been particular disappointing in its treatment of the Deputy Chair race. I find the analysis, from people I generally respect, lacking.<\/p>\n

    But to use my own criteria, I\u2019m going to talk about what I\u2019m for than what I\u2019m against.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    He makes the case for Brodkorb.<\/p>\n

    The Central Committee votes tomorrow.\u00a0 I’m hoping we can get the results as close to real-time as possible on the NARN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In my post last week about the MNGOP leadership battle, I noted three things: I don’t do endorsements. I mean, if I did, who’d care?\u00a0 I’m small potatoes. It’d be the height of misplaced ego to think my “endorsement” would matter to anyone.\u00a0 And not only am I not a Central Committee voter, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}