{"id":60472,"date":"2016-10-04T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T16:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60472"},"modified":"2016-10-01T20:07:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T01:07:19","slug":"do-what-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60472","title":{"rendered":"Do What They Say&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;while ignoring what they actually do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chanting_points_200px.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-21243\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chanting_points_200px-150x150.gif\" alt=\"chanting_points_200px\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what the Minnesota DFL would have people do on most &#8220;ethical&#8221; issues.<\/p>\n<p>Government employees with cadillac health plans pushing Minnesotans onto MNSure? \u00a0No problem.<\/p>\n<p>DFL legislators with guns in the house pushing anti-2nd-amendment legislation? \u00a0Par for the course.<\/p>\n<p>Decry racism and preach &#8220;diversity&#8221; and &#8220;inclusion&#8221; out of one side of your mouth, but prey on the ignorant racism of too many DFLers out the other side and several other orifices? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=14859\">You expected what<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And now &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0Minnesota DFL Caucus is sending out mailers promising to regulate &#8220;dark money&#8221; campaign spending&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;paid for with &#8220;dark money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dark-Money-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60475 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dark-Money-2.jpg\" alt=\"dark-money\" width=\"482\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dark-Money-2.jpg 545w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dark-Money-2-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s let this sink in: \u00a0while jabbering at the ignorant about &#8220;dark money&#8221;, DFL-affilated groups have spent 3.3 million (not counting the half-million from the MN Chamber of Commerce, which is often falsely called pro-GOP; its policies have largely been moderate-DFL for the past six years) in &#8220;dark money&#8221; out of the over nine million they&#8217;ve spent so far. \u00a0 The DFL-affiliated groups have spent over double in &#8220;dark money&#8221; what all of the GOP affilated PACs in the top ten have spent all together.<\/p>\n<p>Pass the word to your less curious friends. \u00a0And your DFL-leaning friends.<\/p>\n<p>But I repeat myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;while ignoring what they actually do. That&#8217;s what the Minnesota DFL would have people do on most &#8220;ethical&#8221; issues. Government employees with cadillac health plans pushing Minnesotans onto MNSure? \u00a0No problem. DFL legislators with guns in the house pushing anti-2nd-amendment legislation? \u00a0Par for the course. Decry racism and preach &#8220;diversity&#8221; and &#8220;inclusion&#8221; out of one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-60472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chanting-points-memo","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60472","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=60472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60494,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60472\/revisions\/60494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}