{"id":79900,"date":"2021-11-03T07:16:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79900"},"modified":"2021-11-03T07:16:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:16:08","slug":"off-to-a-bad-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79900","title":{"rendered":"Off To A Bad Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not sure this was foreshadowing the evening&#8217;s vote in Minneapolis, but when Angela Conley, a Hennepin County commissioner who favors banning the police reported a carjacking&#8230;maybe&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimeWatchMpls\/status\/1455393711244906500\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;it may not have ended well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No worse than the evening ended up for Philippe Cunningham and Jeremy Schroeder , two city council bots who had strongly favored defunding the MPD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minneapolis rejected the &#8220;public safety&#8221; amendment.   Which prompted a bit of pique:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RebsBrannon\/status\/1455733507456634886\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>While some white progressives were upset, it was interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/electionresults.sos.state.mn.us\/Results\/Index?ersElectionId=142&amp;scenario=ResultsByPrecinctCrosstab&amp;QuestionId=1323\">reading the results<\/a> of the police question broken down by precinct.  In the upset wards &#8211; Cunningham&#8217;s Ward Four, far north Minneapolis, where the people who actually need to worry about crime live, and Schroder&#8217;s Ward 11, the far south, where people who have something to lose live, the charter amendment got clobbered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob Frey appears on his way to re-election once IRV wends its mysterious ways &#8211; Kate Knuth and Sheila Nezhad were unable to play the IRV game well enough to trick enough votes into their various columns.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, to settle in and see what&#8217;s happening in Virginia and New Jersey&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not sure this was foreshadowing the evening&#8217;s vote in Minneapolis, but when Angela Conley, a Hennepin County commissioner who favors banning the police reported a carjacking&#8230;maybe&#8230; &#8230;it may not have ended well. No worse than the evening ended up for Philippe Cunningham and Jeremy Schroeder , two city council bots who had strongly favored defunding [&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-79900","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\/79900","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=79900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79901,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79900\/revisions\/79901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}