{"id":68469,"date":"2018-11-07T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68469"},"modified":"2018-11-04T13:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T19:23:36","slug":"life-in-a-one-party-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=68469","title":{"rendered":"Life In A One-Party Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few months, I&#8217;ve been treated to the sight of Saint Paulites &#8211; almost all of them people who&#8217;d never\u00a0<em>dream\u00a0<\/em>of voting for anything but a DFLer &#8211; reacting with Major-Renault-like shock, shock, that&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saint Paul&#8217;s Mafia-style trash-collection system costs more, offers fewer options and miserable customer service, all delivered with the sort of arrogance we&#8217;ve come to expect from Saint Paul&#8217;s government (Motto: &#8220;Government is the things we do together, arrogantly and imcompetently&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li>Mayor Carter&#8217;s shunting of budget from police and fire to &#8220;Sustainability&#8221; (e.g. institutional virtue-signaling) would pave the way for more crime<\/li>\n<li>The Soccer stadium, ballyhooed as the core of an urban renaissance with green space,\u00a0 shops with walkable access and the rest of the urban planning buzzwords &#8211; is going to wind up being precisely the plutocrat plaything in the middle of a sea of asphalt that all of us skeptics predicted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, now, Saint<a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/10\/24\/flaws-in-our-process-construction-spree-in-st-paul-public-schools-costing-far-more-than-expected\/?fbclid=IwAR2YOfHE-pfF1wkOe-1VfKybM7-5jdlZAm7uZKSKQ_6bCbK4e6HqgQWOSyA\"> Paul&#8217;s school-building spree turns out to make the Pentagon look like a Bemidji Norwegian Lutheran church&#8217;s decoration committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Paul Public Schools vastly underestimated the cost of an ambitious 2016 plan to improve the look and function of every building it owns.<\/p>\n<p>Eight major school projects that got underway last year will cost the district a total of $214 million, according to the latest figures from the school district.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s $63 million more than the district estimated in 2016, a Pioneer Press analysis has found, a difference of 42 percent.<\/p>\n<p>New estimates for the next eight large projects, all scheduled to break ground in the coming five years, total $220 million. That\u2019s $91 million, or 70 percent, higher than the 2016 estimate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There will be shock.<\/p>\n<p>And then a majority of them will vote for an even further-left Democrat next election.\u00a0 \u2202<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few months, I&#8217;ve been treated to the sight of Saint Paulites &#8211; almost all of them people who&#8217;d never\u00a0dream\u00a0of voting for anything but a DFLer &#8211; reacting with Major-Renault-like shock, shock, that&#8230; Saint Paul&#8217;s Mafia-style trash-collection system costs more, offers fewer options and miserable customer service, all delivered with the sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,28,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-st-paul","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469","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=68469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68470,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68469\/revisions\/68470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}