{"id":74639,"date":"2020-07-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74639"},"modified":"2021-03-02T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:09","slug":"dear-dfl-you-own-this-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74639","title":{"rendered":"Dear DFL: You Own This Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The feds turn down Governor Klink’s disaster funding request<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a \u201cmajor disaster\u201d for the state of Minnesota in his request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on July 2. More than 1,500 buildings were damaged<\/a> by fires, looting and vandalism in the days of unrest that followed Floyd\u2019s May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Governor is disappointed that the federal government declined his request for financial support,\u201d [Walz spokesperson Teddy] Tschann said in a statement. \u201cAs we navigate one of the most difficult periods in our state\u2019s history, we look for support from our federal government to help us through.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The “disaster” was, of course, caused by sixty years of DFL governance that is swerving exponentially to the left, decades of mismanagement, a toxic culture run by white liberals<\/a> more concerned with virtue-trumpeting than competence and justice, and of course by a city that simultaneously rolls out the red carpet for young, largely white, largely upper-middle-class radicals (the direct action arm of the DFL) which the city was packed full of when Mayor Frey made his ill-fated decision to evacuate law enforcement<\/a> from East Lake Street. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should <\/em>the American taxpayer – especially those who work hard to support competent government, almost invariably in red states – pay for the DFL’s decades of depraved indifference to their own incompetence? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You break it, you buy it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The feds turn down Governor Klink’s disaster funding request: The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz\u2019s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd\u2019s death. Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a \u201cmajor disaster\u201d for the state of Minnesota in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,17],"tags":[432,423],"class_list":["post-74639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-minneapolis","tag-george-floyd","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639","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=74639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74647,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639\/revisions\/74647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}