{"id":66779,"date":"2018-05-08T06:41:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66779"},"modified":"2018-05-08T06:41:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T11:41:27","slug":"the-vape-filled-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66779","title":{"rendered":"The Vape Filled Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Should the job of Chief Law Enforcement officer be a political appointee?\u00a0 Because that\u2019s what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>Voters in Ramsey County overwhelmingly cast their votes for the candidate endorsed by the Democrat Party.\u00a0 As a practical matter, that means the election is decided once the party endorsement is given.\u00a0 But the endorsement is awarded at the county convention which is attended by insiders and activists, the dedicated handful of true believers who hand-pick the candidates.\u00a0 The decision isn\u2019t made in a smoke-filled back room only because true-believers have banned smoking.\u00a0 The fix is in.<\/p>\n<p>How does that make Republicans feel about their prospects of being treated fairly by law enforcement?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About the same as the prospects from any other branch of Saint Paul government&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Should the job of Chief Law Enforcement officer be a political appointee?\u00a0 Because that\u2019s what\u2019s happening. Voters in Ramsey County overwhelmingly cast their votes for the candidate endorsed by the Democrat Party.\u00a0 As a practical matter, that means the election is decided once the party endorsement is given.\u00a0 But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779","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=66779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66780,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66779\/revisions\/66780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}