{"id":71384,"date":"2019-05-24T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71384"},"modified":"2019-05-24T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:31:42","slug":"the-calz-of-the-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71384","title":{"rendered":"The Calz Of The Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz&#8217;s Very Special Session is a work of crass political manipulation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to try to explain it &#8211; Representative Zerwas already did it better than I could:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The proclamation from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovTimWalz<\/a> is odd. The timing is bizarre&#8230; apparently he believes forcing a Special Session over a holiday weekend will make Republicans cave.<br><br>Thousands and thousands of pages of legislation ALL assembled in secret. He demands we vote without reading. 1\/?<\/p>&mdash; Nick Zerwas (@NickZerwas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickZerwas\/status\/1131767759770148865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Over my 7 years I\u2019m proud of not having a reputation as an obstructionist, however, this blatant attack on the legislative process cannot go unchecked. <br><br>I\u2019m urging my GOP House Colleagues to put the brakes on. We need to know what\u2019s in these bills. 2\/?<\/p>&mdash; Nick Zerwas (@NickZerwas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickZerwas\/status\/1131768551176589315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A Leadership Court or Tribunal of the Speaker, Majority Ldr. Of the Senate, and Governor have assembled these bills in secret over the last 5 days. This absolutely runs contrary to our constitution and as a result the other 199 Legislators have NO CLUE what\u2019s in these bills 3\/?<\/p>&mdash; Nick Zerwas (@NickZerwas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickZerwas\/status\/1131769741910183937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m not an alarmist, however, ANY legislator that votes in SPECIAL SESSION tmrw morning to suspend the rules, clearly does not care about the \u201cprocess\u201d or \u201ctransparency\u201d or any of the other campaign buzzwords we heard so much about last fall. 4\/?<\/p>&mdash; Nick Zerwas (@NickZerwas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickZerwas\/status\/1131770596990312448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After 7 years I have to say I\u2019m just bummed out and disappointed. As far as I can tell the process is fundamentally broken and \u201cleaders\u201d just make it worse year after year (if it helps their team). <br><br>The result is a smaller and smaller number of legislators actually matter. 5\/?<\/p>&mdash; Nick Zerwas (@NickZerwas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickZerwas\/status\/1131771418067251210?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So&#8230; I\u2019ll show up tmrw morning&#8230; I\u2019ll try to figure out what\u2019s in each of the 9 separate several hundred page bills (that were written in complete secrecy by 3 ppl) we will vote on. I\u2019ll vote to delay the final vote (I will likely lose). Then I\u2019ll do my best. 6\/?<\/p>&mdash; Nick Zerwas (@NickZerwas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickZerwas\/status\/1131772230084517889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WE HAVE TO BE BETTER THAN THIS. No member of the Legislature knocked on thousands of doors, and campaigned all year for this. I can\u2019t see how any member of the House will feel confident in actually representing their 35,000 constituents tmrw. I wish us good luck.<br><br>END<\/p>&mdash; Nick Zerwas (@NickZerwas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickZerwas\/status\/1131773206497517574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Every session, especially since 2011, our entire government devolves down to three people in a locked room.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s not what we voted for&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, OK.  It is exactly what a slim majority voted for.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz&#8217;s Very Special Session is a work of crass political manipulation. I&#8217;m not going to try to explain it &#8211; Representative Zerwas already did it better than I could: Every session, especially since 2011, our entire government devolves down to three people in a locked room. That&#8217;s not what we voted for&#8230; &#8230;well, OK. 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