{"id":83962,"date":"2022-11-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83962"},"modified":"2022-11-29T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T13:59:00","slug":"bogarted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83962","title":{"rendered":"Bogarted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The DFL ran the table in the last election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they want something passed, they will likely pass it (exceptions exist, and we&#8217;ll be talking about them).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marijuana legalization should be a slam dunk.  There&#8217;s no need for the party to mobilize its base to get out and pimp for bread and circuses&#8230;uh, I mean weed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet they&#8217;re doing this:<\/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\">To celebrate 4\/20, why not stock up on some great Legalize It merch from the DFL store? <br><br>You&#39;ll be supporting the only serious party working to legalize cannabis in Minnesota and you&#39;ll look great doing it \ud83d\ude0e<br><br>Here&#39;s the link \u2935\ufe0f\u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5s4kbwsgz3\">https:\/\/t.co\/5s4kbwsgz3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ItqvtVvLoh\">pic.twitter.com\/ItqvtVvLoh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Minnesota DFL (@MinnesotaDFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinnesotaDFL\/status\/1516898319708180481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems odd, doesn&#8217;t it?  Coming up with weed merch for a measure that was a campaign &#8220;promise&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fearless prediction:  the DFL will draw up a weed bill &#8211; or amend it onto an omnibus that won&#8217;t pass with certain amendments, including weed, included.  The DFL will blame the GOP, and use it in two years to get the strung-along weed-voter dupes to trudge to the polls again in 2024.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL ran the table in the last election. If they want something passed, they will likely pass it (exceptions exist, and we&#8217;ll be talking about them). Marijuana legalization should be a slam dunk. There&#8217;s no need for the party to mobilize its base to get out and pimp for bread and circuses&#8230;uh, I mean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83962","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=83962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83964,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83962\/revisions\/83964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}