{"id":67932,"date":"2018-09-10T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67932"},"modified":"2018-09-10T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T11:59:51","slug":"can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67932","title":{"rendered":"Can Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An accident at the Steamboat Days parade in Carver County yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2018\/09\/09\/carver-country-parade-float-crash-injures-candidate-staffer\">left GOP Secretary of State candidate John Howe and his campaign manager Tim Droogsma injured<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The float had just completed the Steamboat Days parade and was heading to back to the staging location when the accident occurred, according to Amy Koch, the campaign manager for Republican candidate for Senate Karin Housley. Koch said the tractor pulling the float sped up and hit a curb.<\/p>\n<p>John Howe, the candidate for Secretary of State said he was thrown to the pavement along with his campaign manager, Tim Droogsma. Howe spoke to MPR News while being transported by ambulance to Hennepin County Medical Center. Howe said it appeared the flatbed trailer ran over Tim Droogsma his campaign manager.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the part I thought was interesting:\u00a0 when the accident happened,\u00a0 GOP Senate candidate Jim Newberger &#8211; a paramedic when he&#8217;s not in the State House &#8211; responded.\u00a0 Amy Koch directed traffic,\u00a0 Other GOP officials and candidates stepped in with their own expertises.<\/p>\n<p>If this had been a DFL float accident, the place would have been flooded with grief counselors and personal injury attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, I&#8217;m glad to be a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  and sometimes I&#8217;m even happier that I&#8217;m just not a Democrat:<\/p>\n<p>Howe got this response:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0341-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-67938 size-full\" height=\"2047\" width=\"996\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0341-1.jpg 996w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0341-1-146x300.jpg 146w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0341-1-768x1578.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/img_0341-1-498x1024.jpg 498w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 996px) 100vw, 996px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember \u2013 Democrats are the party of compassion.<\/p>\n<p>A little checking turned up that the &#8220;woman&#8221; sending this charming Mrs. is a Hennepin county employee \u2013 a rent seeking DFL client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An accident at the Steamboat Days parade in Carver County yesterday left GOP Secretary of State candidate John Howe and his campaign manager Tim Droogsma injured. The float had just completed the Steamboat Days parade and was heading to back to the staging location when the accident occurred, according to Amy Koch, the campaign manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932","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=67932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67939,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67932\/revisions\/67939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}