{"id":57508,"date":"2016-02-10T07:23:39","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T13:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57508"},"modified":"2016-02-10T09:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T15:55:33","slug":"tremors-and-trash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57508","title":{"rendered":"Tremors And Trash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Chad Anderson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/02\/09\/republicans-take-minnesota-house-seat-long-held-by-dfl-in-special-election\/\">upsets the DFL &#8211; ahd &#8220;Democratic Socialist&#8221; trash collection &#8211; \u00a0in a special election<\/a>, flipping Ann Lenczewsi&#8217;s seat in a district only marginally less DFL-secure than any other in the first tier of burbs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With all the precincts tallied in the special election to replace Lenczewski, Anderson netted 51 percent to DFL\u00a0Bloomington City Council member Andrew Carlson\u2019s 49 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The win gives Republicans, who are already in the House majority, an extra legislative vote this year and a key boost of confidence before November\u2019s election, when the entire Legislature is up for election.<\/p>\n<p>Both House Republican and Democratic-Farmer-Labor campaign arms spent thousands of dollars on ads targeting the Bloomington area, an unusual step in special elections. About 5,000 voters turned out Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Losing Lenczewski&#8217;s seat has to have people at the DFL&#8217;s office on Plato Boulevard changing their underwear today. \u00a0 It&#8217;s not quite like flipping a seat in Minneapolis &#8211; but it&#8217;s not that far from it, either.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Carlson &#8211; the DFL contender, and an incumbent Bloomington City Council member &#8211; was instrumental in jamming down\u00a0Cuban-style socialized trash collection in\u00a0Bloomington last year.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0What could be better than flipping a DFL sinecure? \u00a0Doing it while spending 1\/4 as much as the Democrat did.<\/p>\n<p>More on that tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Chad Anderson upsets the DFL &#8211; ahd &#8220;Democratic Socialist&#8221; trash collection &#8211; \u00a0in a special election, flipping Ann Lenczewsi&#8217;s seat in a district only marginally less DFL-secure than any other in the first tier of burbs: With all the precincts tallied in the special election to replace Lenczewski, Anderson netted 51 percent to DFL\u00a0Bloomington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-16","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57508","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=57508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57512,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57508\/revisions\/57512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}