{"id":64744,"date":"2017-10-09T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64744"},"modified":"2017-10-08T13:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T18:40:30","slug":"judge-jury-and-community-organizer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64744","title":{"rendered":"Judge, Jury, And Community Organizer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Supreme Court orders Legislature to divulge <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/supreme-court-orders-legislature-to-disclose-all-funds-in-lawsuit-with-gov-mark-dayton\/448662613\/\">how much money it has to continue operations,<\/a> after Dayton line-item vetoed funding.<\/p>\n<p>As we used to say in the olden days: objection \u2013 irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial.\u00a0 This is a separation of powers issue, not a fiscal management issue.\u00a0 How much money the legislature prudently set aside to weather bumps in the economy has no bearing on whether it\u2019s constitutional for the Executive Branch to abolish the Legislative Branch using the line-item veto.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat-appointed Supreme Court is squirming, trying to avoid admitting that Democrat Dayton blundered.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 He\u2019s a lame duck.\u00a0 Throw him under the bus to preserve the tattered shreds of your dignity. Or cast all pretense aside and admit the court is simply another manifestation of the DFL. Believe me, nobody will be surprised to hear it.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d almost appreciate the honesty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Supreme Court orders Legislature to divulge how much money it has to continue operations, after Dayton line-item vetoed funding. As we used to say in the olden days: objection \u2013 irrelevant, incompetent and immaterial.\u00a0 This is a separation of powers issue, not a fiscal management issue.\u00a0 How much money [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64744","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=64744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64745,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64744\/revisions\/64745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}