{"id":5256,"date":"2009-08-14T08:46:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2009-08-14T08:50:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:50:56","slug":"the-taxinatrix-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=5256","title":{"rendered":"The Taxinator Is In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives <a href=\"http:\/\/mnpublius.com\/2009\/08\/margaret-is-here\/\">is in the Goober race.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Entenza campaign has tried very hard to develop an air of inevitablity\u2009\u2014\u2009that he is going to be the DFL candidate for Governor. <strike> MAK\u2019s candidacy is a bowling ball off an overpass for the Enetenza 18-wheeler and right now I\u2019d have to speculate that she will be the DFL endorsed candidate for Governor <\/strike>(catch the edit at the end) [in which Broom fudges his prediction a bit].With the entrance of the Speaker and the expected entrances of the mayors in the next few months, the long summer Entenza has had to develop momentum and image will be quickly coming to a close.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s game time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Please, Democrats, I beg of you &#8211; nominate her.\u00a0 Nominate a hard-line tax and spender.\u00a0 Nominate a woman who put Cy Thao&#8217;s classic dictum, &#8220;when you guys win, you get to keep your money.\u00a0 When we win, we take your money&#8221; into action with every breath she took on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Endorse a woman who couldn&#8217;t compromise enough to squeedge a budget past a governor that was outnumbered two houses to none.<\/p>\n<p>Endorse someone whose main qualification for office is &#8220;she&#8217;s less mind-warpingly camera-hostile than Larry Pogemiller&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I beg of you.\u00a0 Endorse her.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Anderson-Kelliher, Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives is in the Goober race. The Entenza campaign has tried very hard to develop an air of inevitablity\u2009\u2014\u2009that he is going to be the DFL candidate for Governor. MAK\u2019s candidacy is a bowling ball off an overpass for the Enetenza 18-wheeler and right now I\u2019d have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","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=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}