{"id":77257,"date":"2021-03-23T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77257"},"modified":"2021-03-23T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:49:08","slug":"end-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77257","title":{"rendered":"End It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I received an update from the Bar Association lobbyist on activities at<br>the state capitol.<\/p><p>&#8220;To avoid a government shutdown, the House, Senate, and governor will<br>need to agree on a new budget by the end of June. Throughout<br>negotiations, the MSBA will be focused on ensuring that Minnesota\u2019s<br>courts, public defenders, and civil legal services are adequately funded.&#8221;<\/p><p>Governor Walz has been able to hold the state hostage for an entire year<br>with impunity.\u00a0 This is how Republicans free the state.\u00a0 &#8220;Governor Walz,<br>end it now, agree to reforms to prevent it from happening again, or we<br>shut everything down.&#8221;<\/p><p>Anything less is not merely capitulation, it&#8217;s enabling.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s gotta happen, GOP.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;re running out of patience with the excuses. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an update from the Bar Association lobbyist on activities atthe state capitol. &#8220;To avoid a government shutdown, the House, Senate, and governor willneed to agree on a new budget by the end of June. Throughoutnegotiations, the MSBA will be focused on ensuring that Minnesota\u2019scourts, public defenders, and civil legal services are adequately funded.&#8221; [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257","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=77257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77258,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77257\/revisions\/77258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}