{"id":64341,"date":"2017-09-01T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64341"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:13:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T13:13:25","slug":"have-you-noticed-something-missing-from-the-dfl-chanting-points-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64341","title":{"rendered":"Have You Noticed Something Missing From The DFL Chanting Points Lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the past eight seven years since Republicans expunged Democrat control of the WIsconsin state house, the DFL&#8217;s favorite line was &#8220;lookit how much better MInnesota is doing!&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chanting_points_200px.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21243 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/chanting_points_200px.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But I haven&#8217;t heard that line in a while. \u00a0Most likely, either have you.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder why?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/newsreleases\/regional\/gdp_state\/2017\/qgsp0717.htm\">One guess<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bea.gov\/newsreleases\/regional\/gdp_state\/2017\/_images\/qgsp0717.png\" width=\"2070\" height=\"1355\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After seven years of conservative governance, Wisconsin is growing. \u00a0After seven years divided between completely DFL control and the intransigence of a DFL governor vetoing al legislation that doesn&#8217;t grow the Big State and with half the state&#8217;s economy hobbled by DFL-run metro governments, Minnesota&#8217;s economy is\u00a0<em>contracting<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why the chanting points have changed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of the past eight seven years since Republicans expunged Democrat control of the WIsconsin state house, the DFL&#8217;s favorite line was &#8220;lookit how much better MInnesota is doing!&#8221; But I haven&#8217;t heard that line in a while. \u00a0Most likely, either have you. Wonder why? One guess: After seven years of conservative governance, Wisconsin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-chanting-points-memo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64341","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=64341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64365,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64341\/revisions\/64365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}