{"id":58832,"date":"2016-05-17T09:17:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58832"},"modified":"2016-05-17T09:17:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T14:17:53","slug":"mndfl-they-know-what-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58832","title":{"rendered":"MNDFL:  They Know What Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The transportation, tax and bonding bills are all a shambles.<\/p>\n<p>So what is the Minnesota DFL focused on?<\/p>\n<p>Baseball players and their tobacco.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/text.php?number=HF4008&amp;version=0&amp;session=ls89&amp;session_year=2016&amp;session_number=0\">The bill<\/a> was introduced Monday by Rep. Mike Freiberg, DFL-Golden Valley. It would ban the use of tobacco at Target Field, CHS Field and other professional sports stadiums in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to make smokeless tobacco use in baseball a remnant of the past \u2013 and Minnesota should be proud to play a role in that movement,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.leg.state.mn.us\/members\/pressrelease.asp?pressid=15088&amp;party=1&amp;memid=15398\" target=\"_blank\">said Freiberg Monday<\/a>. \u201cBy allowing smokeless tobacco at the ballparks, we send the absolute wrong message about tobacco use. It\u2019s time to take tobacco out of the game completely for the good of baseball and the health of our kids and players alike.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transportation, tax and bonding bills are all a shambles. So what is the Minnesota DFL focused on? Baseball players and their tobacco. The bill was introduced Monday by Rep. Mike Freiberg, DFL-Golden Valley. It would ban the use of tobacco at Target Field, CHS Field and other professional sports stadiums in Minnesota. \u201cWe need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58832","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=58832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58833,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58832\/revisions\/58833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}