{"id":69925,"date":"2019-02-06T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69925"},"modified":"2019-02-06T06:29:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T12:29:56","slug":"ebb-tide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69925","title":{"rendered":"Ebb Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jason Rarick won the special election in Senate District 11 last night, and did it with a pretty impressive margin in a district that was not only pretty much 50-50, but in which <em>the\u00a0GOP has\u00a0never\u00a0won\u00a0the\u00a0Senate\u00a0seat<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With 100 percent of precincts in, state Rep. Jason Rarick wins the SD 11 race with 52 percent of the vote to Democrat Stu Lourey&#8217;s 46 percent. A flip for the Senate GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Briana Bierschbach (@bbierschbach) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbierschbach\/status\/1092998530887831553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s a sign that the DFL wave from last fall has dissipated in a welter of the overreach I predicated.  The GOP now has a two-vote majority in the Senate.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An interesting sign:  organized labor, at least private-sector labor, was working the district hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Rarick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Didn&#8217;t see that coming, I gotta admit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And perhaps it&#8217;s a sign that MInnesota&#8217;s real 2nd Amendment groups, which backed Rarick, are actually starting to get their clout back, and see the truth about the (in my opinion) fraudulent, Iowa-based &#8220;Minnesota&#8221; Gun Rights, which denounced Rarick for no rational reason other than the simple fact that winning would gut their gravy train.  Side note: If you donate to Minnesota Gun Rights, you are a sucker and I&#8217;ll tell you to your face; you would do less damage giving your money directly to Michael Bloomberg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congrats, Jason Rarick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Rarick won the special election in Senate District 11 last night, and did it with a pretty impressive margin in a district that was not only pretty much 50-50, but in which the\u00a0GOP has\u00a0never\u00a0won\u00a0the\u00a0Senate\u00a0seat. With 100 percent of precincts in, state Rep. Jason Rarick wins the SD 11 race with 52 percent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69925","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=69925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69931,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69925\/revisions\/69931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}