{"id":75905,"date":"2020-11-18T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75905"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T14:41:00","slug":"jackpine-snipers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75905","title":{"rendered":"Jackpine Snipers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a session of being neutered and stripped of their leadership positions by the increasingly metro-dominated DFL, there&#8217;ve been rumors bouncing around CD8 circles that Senators Bakk and Tomassoni were going to bolt the DFL.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And according to Tom Hauser, that may be in the near offing&#8230;:<\/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\">BREAKING: 5 Eyewitness News has learned two longtime DFL Senators will quit the MN DFL Caucus and form an &quot;Independent Caucus.&quot; Sources tell me Sen. Tom Bakk of Cook and Sen. Dave Tomassoni of Chisholm will announce the move sometime today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aK374ovfs8\">pic.twitter.com\/aK374ovfs8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tom Hauser (@thauserkstp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thauserkstp\/status\/1329059670196150272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;although not <em>quite <\/em>to the point of joining the GOP.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rumors are bouncing about as to which party the &#8220;Independent Caucus&#8221; will work most closely with &#8211; but either way, Bakk and Tomassoni are going to be the most popular guys on Capitol Hill when the session starts.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It <em>doesn&#8217;t <\/em>seem a stretch that on issues of mining and gun rights &#8211; and, likely, a few more &#8211; the Senate has gone from 34-33 GOP to 34-31-2, and the DFL agenda just got even farther out of reach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;ll it mean for Governor Klink&#8217;s emergency powers? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guess &#8211; and it&#8217;s only a guess &#8211; is that the House DFL will dig in harder and get more extreme.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a session of being neutered and stripped of their leadership positions by the increasingly metro-dominated DFL, there&#8217;ve been rumors bouncing around CD8 circles that Senators Bakk and Tomassoni were going to bolt the DFL. And according to Tom Hauser, that may be in the near offing&#8230;: &#8230;although not quite to the point of joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,320,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75905","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=75905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75906,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75905\/revisions\/75906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}