{"id":81106,"date":"2022-03-10T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81106"},"modified":"2022-03-10T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T14:34:24","slug":"appeal-to-ridicule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81106","title":{"rendered":"Appeal To Ridicule"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Senate majority leader Gazelka called it:  the various metro teachers unions are making a grab for a chunk of the &#8220;9 billion dollar surplus&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Erin Murphy &#8211; Senator from the mean streets of Highland Pari, and living proof that the DFL is the party of misogyny &#8211; decided to chirp:<\/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\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oh, \u201cthose teachers\u201d should give themself some credit; their union is the biggest lobbyist in the state.<\/p>&mdash; Mitch &quot;The Wa\u0142\u0119sa Project&quot; Berg \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf4\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 (@mitchpberg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mitchpberg\/status\/1501490488070873090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 9, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, those damn teachers&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;who work for a system that is the biggest consumer of tax dollars in the state, whose administrative overburden is the biggest single expense, and whose union is by far, not even close, the biggest and most powerful lobbying body in the state. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate majority leader Gazelka called it: the various metro teachers unions are making a grab for a chunk of the &#8220;9 billion dollar surplus&#8221;. Erin Murphy &#8211; Senator from the mean streets of Highland Pari, and living proof that the DFL is the party of misogyny &#8211; decided to chirp: Yeah, those damn teachers&#8230; &#8230;who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,2,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81106","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=81106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81113,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81106\/revisions\/81113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}