{"id":58829,"date":"2016-05-17T07:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58829"},"modified":"2016-05-17T07:38:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T12:38:39","slug":"all-is-proceeding-as-predicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58829","title":{"rendered":"All Is Proceeding As Predicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years after Governor <del>Flint-Smith<\/del> Dayton got his Vikings Stadium deal, he admits his &#8220;e-pulltab&#8221; proposal &#8211; which was supposed to fund the state&#8217;s share of Zygi Wilf&#8217;s real-estate upgrade &#8211; was a flop (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By now, it\u2019s a well-known fact that the plan to fund the state\u2019s $498 million share of the new Vikings stadium with revenue from electronic pulltabs was a bust, but now Gov. Mark Dayton is owning up to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, there were multiple errors made, and in hindsight, obviously <strong>we were terribly wrong<\/strong>,\u201d Dayton told<a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2013\/09\/13\/business\/vikings-stadium-pulltab-gambling-flopped\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Public Radio<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, no, Governor\u00a0<del>Flint-Smith<\/del> Dayton;\u00a0<em>you\u00a0<\/em>and the hysterical ninnies in the Legislature who buckled under to a bunch of louts dressed in fake Vikingwear were terribly wrong.<\/p>\n<p>We &#8211; conservatives, people who both believe it&#8217;s not government&#8217;s job to build stadiums, and who do our freaking homework about shiny toys like e-pulltabs &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26209\">were terribly right all along<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years after Governor Flint-Smith Dayton got his Vikings Stadium deal, he admits his &#8220;e-pulltab&#8221; proposal &#8211; which was supposed to fund the state&#8217;s share of Zygi Wilf&#8217;s real-estate upgrade &#8211; was a flop (emphasis added): By now, it\u2019s a well-known fact that the plan to fund the state\u2019s $498 million share of the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[207],"class_list":["post-58829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58829","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=58829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58830,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58829\/revisions\/58830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}