{"id":78599,"date":"2021-06-30T11:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78599"},"modified":"2021-06-30T09:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:26:22","slug":"mussolini-like-power-and-single-man-autocratic-rule-must-not-be-polling-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78599","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mussolini-Like Power&#8221; And &#8220;Single-Man Autocratic Rule&#8221; Must Not Be Polling Well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Governor Walz&#8217;s emergency powers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/article\/news\/politics\/walz-emergency-powers-to-end-july-1-minnesota-governor\/89-0e39c940-f149-4031-88fb-8b175ee0ce45?fbclid=IwAR2Rgg7ERRUuotC_N-k2MeIzblfrpPd7m5-biLAori4eKSw-8FnJpyy_Cxs\">ended last night<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out that to the DFL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2021\/06\/30\/gov-walz-to-end-covid-emergency-july-1\/\">it was all a bone to be thrown over budget money<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Our agreement with our federal partners to extend [food assistancce] benefits for Minnesotans, coupled with the thoughtful plan outlined in the House Democrats&#8217; amendment to wind down the emergency response in state government, means that we can close this chapter of our history and celebrate the brighter days ahead,&#8221; Walz said in a statement late Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone but me having a hard time buying the notion that the Governor moved his plan up a month, on a day&#8217;s notice, over some bureaucratic tittle-jotting at the USDA? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My guess &#8211; and it is a guess &#8211; is that the DFL is starting to see that Covid is eating political capital they can&#8217;t waste as they try to get ahead of the urban crime problem they&#8217;ve created. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Walz&#8217;s emergency powers ended last night. Turns out that to the DFL it was all a bone to be thrown over budget money. &#8220;Our agreement with our federal partners to extend [food assistancce] benefits for Minnesotans, coupled with the thoughtful plan outlined in the House Democrats&#8217; amendment to wind down the emergency response in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78599","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=78599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78601,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78599\/revisions\/78601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}