{"id":7253,"date":"2009-12-17T09:24:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T14:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7253"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:00:38","slug":"party-integrity-for-ye-but-not-for-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7253","title":{"rendered":"Party Integrity For We, But Not For Ye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember before the &#8217;08 election, when the left and media (pardon the redundancy) stood, like Captain Renault, and bellowed &#8220;I&#8217;m shocked, <em>shocked<\/em>, that you would enforce an ideological purity test&#8221; (against the &#8220;Override Six&#8221;,\u00a0 six GOP legislators that stabbed Governor Pawlenty in the back and voted to overrride his veto of a huge spending bill, thereby handing control of the state&#8217;s finances over to a bunch of irresponsible, wanton DFLers)?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winonadailynews.com\/news\/local\/article_900a7b66-eac2-11de-ab0e-001cc4c002e0.html\">Either does the DFL<\/a>.\u00a0 They are in the process of trying to expunge bad-think from the Mother Party (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Minnesota\u2019s leading state-worker union is endorsing [Debbie] White, a Winona City Councilwoman, for the House District 31A seat Pelowski now holds, said a spokesman for AFSCME Council 5. But a top Winona DFLer, Sen. Sharon Erickson Ropes, said she\u2019s backing Pelowski.<\/p>\n<p>The dueling endorsements fuel an emerging intra-party battle among DFLers in District 31A, which covers the cities of Winona and Houston and southern Winona County.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>AFSCME officials and Pelowski traded jabs Wednesday, each accusing the other of lying about the union\u2019s endorsement screening process. <strong>AFSCME leaders also took aim at Pelowski for opposing a tax increase to balance the state budget in 2009<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DFL to its minions:\u00a0 &#8220;YOU VILL CLOSE RANKS&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Via Gary Gross at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CAcQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.letfreedomringblog.com%2F&amp;ei=ED8qS8vjDpPknAf0nKX2CA&amp;usg=AFQjCNHJEjuF4QYuwuqNJ0aj7a-hHoV4-Q\">LFR<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember before the &#8217;08 election, when the left and media (pardon the redundancy) stood, like Captain Renault, and bellowed &#8220;I&#8217;m shocked, shocked, that you would enforce an ideological purity test&#8221; (against the &#8220;Override Six&#8221;,\u00a0 six GOP legislators that stabbed Governor Pawlenty in the back and voted to overrride his veto of a huge spending bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,144,2],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-7253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253","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=7253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7253\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}