{"id":73787,"date":"2020-04-08T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73787"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T02:36:20","slug":"this-is-todays-dfl-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73787","title":{"rendered":"This Is Today&#8217;s DFL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The GOP-controlled Senate passed an Insulin bill yesterday&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;but apparently they didn&#8217;t give House Majority Leader Ryan &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; Winkler the adulation he so craves:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My son has Type 1 diabetes. It was poor form to express myself as I did, and for that I am sorry. But after months in which Senate Republicans blocked the emergency insulin bill, it was also poor form of them to claim credit alone after we are all on the edge of a deal.<\/p>\u2014 Ryan Winkler (@_RyanWinkler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_RyanWinkler\/status\/1247608937148547074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>And what is he, er, &#8220;apologizing&#8221; for? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This little outburst:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_RyanWinkler?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@_RyanWinkler<\/a> didn\u2019t like our message today on Insulin. \u201cCharacter is what you do (when you think) no one is watching.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Insulin4All?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Insulin4All<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V7siWMZu53\">pic.twitter.com\/V7siWMZu53<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Minnesota Senate Republicans (@mnsrc) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mnsrc\/status\/1247604989389754368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;s flipping off Senator, and Doctor, Scott Jenson &#8211; on of the most moderate Republicans there is, BTW.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what half your neighbors voted for.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOP-controlled Senate passed an Insulin bill yesterday&#8230; &#8230;but apparently they didn&#8217;t give House Majority Leader Ryan &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; Winkler the adulation he so craves: My son has Type 1 diabetes. It was poor form to express myself as I did, and for that I am sorry. But after months in which Senate Republicans blocked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[213],"class_list":["post-73787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","tag-winkler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73787","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=73787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73799,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73787\/revisions\/73799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}