{"id":81797,"date":"2022-04-28T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81797"},"modified":"2022-04-28T06:58:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T11:58:01","slug":"civil-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81797","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Erin Murphy &#8211; who was too extreme even for DFL Primary voters, after being endorsed for Governor four years ago &#8211; apparently held off on giving Twitter the ol&#8217; heave-ho long enough to dump this bit of brilliance onto the world:<\/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\/epmurphymn\/status\/1519403491252482048\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saint Paul&#8217;s gullible and illiterate voters &#8211; many of whom vote for Murphy &#8211; believe city government has the legal prerogative to tell landlords what they can charge for <em>their property<\/em>.  Checking and balancing that overreach is the same as trying to nullify an election (for sake of argument) by force.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not just metro demigogues like Murphy:<\/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\/Lindsey_Port\/status\/1519401449431703552\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So someday when a referendum in a western state bans abortion, Murphy and Port won&#8217;t support litigation?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because it&#8217;d be &#8220;overturning an election&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Murphy &#8211; who was too extreme even for DFL Primary voters, after being endorsed for Governor four years ago &#8211; apparently held off on giving Twitter the ol&#8217; heave-ho long enough to dump this bit of brilliance onto the world: Saint Paul&#8217;s gullible and illiterate voters &#8211; many of whom vote for Murphy &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81797","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=81797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81804,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81797\/revisions\/81804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}