{"id":5056,"date":"2009-07-08T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T17:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2009-07-08T12:24:54","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T17:24:54","slug":"contribute-to-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5056","title":{"rendered":"Contribute To Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Eva Ng is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evaformayor.com\">running for Mayor of Saint Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The city desperately needs her.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got a fundraiser tomorrow night:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We would treasure the honor of your presence at a fundraiser hosted by Martin and Esther Kellogg for Eva Ng, Saint Paul <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1247065435_2\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Mayoral Candidate<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 9th &#8211; 7:00 pm<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1247065435_3\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\">339 Mount Curve Blvd., St. Paul, MN\u00a0 55105<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Featured Speaker:\u00a0 <strong><span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1247065435_4\" style=\"background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand; border-bottom: medium none\">Governor Tim Pawlenty<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease RSVP to <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1247065435_5\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\">651-699-1937<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saint Paul is a wonderful place, but it shows the effects of letting the inmates run the asylum; taxes are booming, but the Mayor is <em>still <\/em>threatening to cut services <em>and <\/em>hike taxes more!\u00a0 Crime &#8211; heretofore very low by major city standards, and a fraction of that of neighboring Minneapolis &#8211; is rising.\u00a0 The city pays for <em>essential services <\/em>like police and fire with LGA &#8211; i.e. money from the rest of the state &#8211; while financing &#8220;fluff&#8221; with the city&#8217;s bedrock revenue, property taxes.\u00a0 The mortgage crisis is gutting the lower-income neighborhoods &#8211; Frogtown, the North End, Dayton&#8217;s Bluff &#8211; but the city&#8217;s policy guarantees that none of the vacant houses can ever be sold to human occupants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Saint Paul needs a clean sweep.\u00a0 Starting over at the top would go a long way.<\/p>\n<p>Please &#8211; get out and support Eva.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Eva Ng is running for Mayor of Saint Paul. The city desperately needs her. She&#8217;s got a fundraiser tomorrow night: We would treasure the honor of your presence at a fundraiser hosted by Martin and Esther Kellogg for Eva Ng, Saint Paul Mayoral Candidate Thursday, July 9th &#8211; 7:00 pm 339 Mount Curve Blvd., St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056","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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}