{"id":61436,"date":"2016-12-21T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61436"},"modified":"2016-12-20T09:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T15:40:46","slug":"minnesotans-for-rule-by-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61436","title":{"rendered":"Minnesotans For Rule By California!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, Democrat representative John Lesch &#8211; along with some well-meaning but deeply mistaken Republicans &#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.leg.state.mn.us\/members\/pressrelease.asp?pressid=17279&amp;party=1&amp;memid=10773\">pushing legislation to scrap the electoral college<\/a> and adopt \u00a0&#8220;California Rules America&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation is actually called the &#8220;National Popular Vote&#8221;, but let&#8217;s be honest (Lesch being a DFLer, he certainly won&#8217;t be); what it means is subjecting the fifty states to being ruled in perpetuity by California, New York and Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>For what little it may be worth, I will be turning whatever bully pulpit I have on any Republicans who support this legislation. \u00a0I urge you to do the same, once the various voices shake out on this issue &#8211; and when they do, I will be making sure you know.<\/p>\n<p>For the record? \u00a0I have nothing against a national popular vote &#8211; provided secession is also legalized and made relatively simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet again, Democrat representative John Lesch &#8211; along with some well-meaning but deeply mistaken Republicans &#8211; is pushing legislation to scrap the electoral college and adopt \u00a0&#8220;California Rules America&#8221;. The legislation is actually called the &#8220;National Popular Vote&#8221;, but let&#8217;s be honest (Lesch being a DFLer, he certainly won&#8217;t be); what it means is subjecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61436","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=61436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61437,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61436\/revisions\/61437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}