{"id":71984,"date":"2019-08-21T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71984"},"modified":"2019-08-22T06:31:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:31:16","slug":"this-time-without-daddy-warbucks-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71984","title":{"rendered":"This Time Without Daddy Warbucks&#8217; Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let&#8217;s not be coy about it &#8211; Jason Lewis lost the 2nd District congressional election because Angie Craig floated to a close win on a tsunami of out-of-district money during a first-term midterm that was bound to bring out the knee-jerks and the soccer moms.   The Bloomberg fortune alone pumped seven figures of filthy anti-gun lucre into the district &#8211; testimony to how much Big Left hated the most articulate conservative in the House.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it&#8217;s a whole &#8216;nother election, and Angie Craig has exactly as much to show for her time in office as you&#8217;d expect an &#8220;HR Executive&#8221; to have accomplished &#8211; the same as they accomplish in the real business world.  Bupkes.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or &#8211; rematch?  Nah.  Maybe a swing at the Butcher of Vandalia, Tina Smith.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;d go for that.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s not be coy about it &#8211; Jason Lewis lost the 2nd District congressional election because Angie Craig floated to a close win on a tsunami of out-of-district money during a first-term midterm that was bound to bring out the knee-jerks and the soccer moms. The Bloomberg fortune alone pumped seven figures of filthy anti-gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,369,155,13],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-71984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-left","category-campaign-20","category-mn-congressional","category-republicans","tag-mn-cd2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71984","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=71984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71992,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71984\/revisions\/71992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}