{"id":54238,"date":"2015-07-10T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54238"},"modified":"2015-07-09T13:04:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:04:47","slug":"free-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54238","title":{"rendered":"Free For All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement that Senator Branden Petersen is not going to seek re-election in SD35, a crowd of Republicans is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/party-politics\/2015\/07\/branden-petersens-state-senate-seat-draws-crowd-potential-candidates?fb_action_ids=10200575267022081&amp;fb_action_types=og.likes&amp;fb_ref=.VZ2JPEjckoc.like\">jumping in line to run for the seat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those possible candidates include Republican party activists Andy Aplikowski and Don Huizenga, state Rep. Abigail Whelan and former state Rep. Kathy Tinglestad.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>SD35 is a pretty reliably GOP district; pretty much any Republican up there can count on a three-digit margin of victory. \u00a0It&#8217;s sort of the anti-Saint Paul.<\/p>\n<p>While I very rarely endorse anyone for office, I&#8217;ll note that Representative Whelan seems to be leaning against &#8211; which is, I think, a great plan (another term or two of incumbency can&#8217;t be a bad thing).<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m going to have to do my bit to put the kibosh on former Rep. Tinglestad; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politics-policy\/2008\/03\/override-six-chastised-gop-leaders-theyre-feeling-confident-about-re-electio\">she was one of the &#8220;Override Six&#8221;<\/a> who famously gut-shot Governor Pawlenty&#8217;s veto of a DFL spending orgy in 2008, joining with Ron &#8220;I&#8217;m Gonna Blow Your Head Off&#8221; Erhardt and making herself a darling of the DFLMedia. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t forgotten, and neither should SD35.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Aplikowski would certainly be a great choice for the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement that Senator Branden Petersen is not going to seek re-election in SD35, a crowd of Republicans is jumping in line to run for the seat: Those possible candidates include Republican party activists Andy Aplikowski and Don Huizenga, state Rep. Abigail Whelan and former state Rep. Kathy Tinglestad. SD35 is a pretty reliably [&hellip;]<\/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-54238","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\/54238","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=54238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54239,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54238\/revisions\/54239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}