{"id":78834,"date":"2021-07-20T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78834"},"modified":"2021-07-19T20:54:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:54:41","slug":"pounce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78834","title":{"rendered":"Pounce!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pleadin (falsely, it would seem) \u201cracism\u201c apparently wasn\u2019t enough to get the Minnesota DFL upset withRepresentative John Thompson (DFL &#8211; ???)   But years old domestic violence accusations apparently triggered the last vestiges of #MeToo; late last week, it was enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.fox9.com\/news\/gov-walz-house-dfl-call-for-rep-thompson-to-resign-after-uncovered-abuse-allegations.amp\">cause<s> <\/s>the DFL to ask for Thompson\u2018s resignation<s>.<\/s><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/mobile\/article\/news\/politics\/calls-mount-for-dfl-rep-john-thompson-to-resign\/89-aa5d1a3e-4b01-4f89-b6b0-94902e0f4656?fbclid=IwAR1jINJvwPLVukO7JSku6oFhwI0YseqOuzuJ_uDVmdCXA2jxbY-UFV9og2w\">Thompson says he\u2019s not leavin<\/a>g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the prurience of the accusations against Thompson from 2003, his best bet may be to hold out  for a sinecure with the Lincoln Project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleadin (falsely, it would seem) \u201cracism\u201c apparently wasn\u2019t enough to get the Minnesota DFL upset withRepresentative John Thompson (DFL &#8211; ???) But years old domestic violence accusations apparently triggered the last vestiges of #MeToo; late last week, it was enough to cause the DFL to ask for Thompson\u2018s resignation. For his part, Thompson says he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78834","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=78834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78847,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78834\/revisions\/78847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}