{"id":72640,"date":"2019-11-20T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72640"},"modified":"2019-11-19T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:46:44","slug":"mark-this-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72640","title":{"rendered":"Mark This Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>October\/November, 2019:   The Star\/Tribune Editorial Board &#8211; presumably including member Patricia Lopez &#8211; endorses nearly every DFL candidate (with the exception of a scant few Republicans who are either shoe-ins or can&#8217;t possibly contend).   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This pattern has been repeated in nearly every election in recent memory &#8211; the past 50 years, at least.   Certainly since before Lopez joined the editorial board.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lopez on Twitter last week:<\/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\">Just got my proposed property tax statement, with a big fat $257 increase for the City of St. Paul. This is insane.<\/p>&mdash; Patricia Lopez (@patricialopez_4) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/patricialopez_4\/status\/1195525800046596096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>November 2020:  The Star\/Tribune Editorial Board &#8211; presumably including member Patricia Lopez &#8211; will endorse nearly every DFL candidate (with the exception of a scant few Republicans who are either shoe-ins or can&#8217;t possibly contend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to save this for the week before the next election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October\/November, 2019: The Star\/Tribune Editorial Board &#8211; presumably including member Patricia Lopez &#8211; endorses nearly every DFL candidate (with the exception of a scant few Republicans who are either shoe-ins or can&#8217;t possibly contend). This pattern has been repeated in nearly every election in recent memory &#8211; the past 50 years, at least. Certainly since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-tc-media-bias","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640","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=72640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72641,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72640\/revisions\/72641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}