{"id":83471,"date":"2022-09-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83471"},"modified":"2025-04-29T07:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:17:51","slug":"feeding-our-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83471","title":{"rendered":"Feeding Our Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The &#8220;Feeding Our Future&#8221; (FOF) scandal just keeps getting better and better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s sum up where we are so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>48 people were indicted on Thursday by the Feds.  <\/li><li>Governor Walz claimed that Ramsey County Judge John Guthman, had ordered the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) &#8211; on pain of a contempt charge and potential jail time &#8211; to resume payments to the non-profit, as a result of litigation between FOF and MDE.  <\/li><li>Guthman <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/top-news\/judge-rebukes-walz-assertion-that-he-ordered-mde-to-resume-payments-to-feeding-our-future\/\">responded with a rare and complete rebuke of the Governor<\/a>, saying that MDE and FOF had reached an agreement that FOF&#8217;s various deficiencies had been fixed, <em>making the litigationi moot<\/em>. That was one round of lies by Walz.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, yesterday, this came out; its an extended thread from Fox9 producer Seth Kaplan, and I urge you to read the whole thing:<\/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\/Seth_Kaplan\/status\/1574475140599103505\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Money shot:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There was never a mention by Judge Guthmann of criminal contempt and jail time being a possibility. It was always civil\/financial contempt and penalties.  There is a footnote on page 6 of the June 24, 2021 order reading: \u201cThe court\u2019s order does not include a jail sanction so there is no need to address purge conditions.\u201d It also reads \u201cimposing financial and penal consequences for constructive civil contempt of court.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>So the fraud occurred on the administration&#8217;s watch &#8211; and when caught, Walz tried to throw a judge under the bus.  The judge grabbed Governor Klink by the lapels and got his head wedged in there just a little further. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media will memory hole this but good.  But it&#8217;s got to be getting harder and harder to do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Feeding Our Future&#8221; (FOF) scandal just keeps getting better and better. Let&#8217;s sum up where we are so far: 48 people were indicted on Thursday by the Feds. Governor Walz claimed that Ramsey County Judge John Guthman, had ordered the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) &#8211; on pain of a contempt charge and potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,7,474,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-crime-and-punishment","category-feeding-our-future","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83471","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=83471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83472,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83471\/revisions\/83472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}