{"id":63466,"date":"2017-06-13T07:19:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63466"},"modified":"2017-06-13T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T12:19:28","slug":"the-pet-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63466","title":{"rendered":"The Pet Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Dayton agreed to a budget deal.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when his leash was yanked by the special interests that own him, he vetoed the budget:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SjbPi00k_ME\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And now? <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2017\/06\/12\/budget-impasse-mark-dayton\/\">Layoffs are imminent<\/a>. \u00a0Over 400 legislative staff jobs &#8211; not to mention the 201 legislators themselves &#8211; will find themselves without a paycheck pretty quick here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The layoffs could include up to 230 regular Minnesota <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">House<\/span><\/span> employees and 204 staffers in the Minnesota Senate.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not counting 201 elected lawmakers \u2014 a total of 635 people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dayton says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI regret the effect on the staff very, very much,\u201d Dayton told <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">reporters<\/span><\/span> on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he could sell another Renoir?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Dayton agreed to a budget deal. Then, when his leash was yanked by the special interests that own him, he vetoed the budget: And now? Layoffs are imminent. \u00a0Over 400 legislative staff jobs &#8211; not to mention the 201 legislators themselves &#8211; will find themselves without a paycheck pretty quick here: The layoffs could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-the-incredible-shrinking-governor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63466","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=63466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63467,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63466\/revisions\/63467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}