{"id":85131,"date":"2023-05-15T09:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85131"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T14:03:58","slug":"politics-in-minneapolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85131","title":{"rendered":"Politics In Minneapolis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Saturday, I had a chat with Shawn Holster about the new, vastly streamlined Minneapolis GOP.   It&#8217;s a reform that makes sense &#8211; going from four Senate district and 13 ward committees to a single city organization.  No more wondering what side of what arbitrary dividing line you live on, no  more wondering if you went to the right meeting, no more wasted effort among a dozen sub-units, more focus on what matters- it&#8217;s freaking brilliant, and Saint Paul should do the same.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It starts at the :33 mark:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"05\/13\/23 HR 1 The People\u2019s Banana Republic of Minnesota\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/northern-alliance-radio-mitch-berg\/05-13-23-hr-1-the-people-s-banana-republic-of-minn\/embed#?secret=NVhN3ZnsUE\" data-secret=\"NVhN3ZnsUE\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, as I was talking with Shawn, this was the MInneapolis Ward 10 convention:<\/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\">Police were called to the Minneapolis DFL Ward 10 convention after fights broke out: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nYDKeul5Ro\">pic.twitter.com\/nYDKeul5Ro<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1657560266555392002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ken Martin &#8211; who runs the party of Bill &#8220;Guillotine Republicans!&#8221; Davis, of Matt &#8220;He Who Flexes on Reporters who are 30 years older than him&#8221; Roznowski, of Leigh &#8220;Thrilla On the House Floor&#8221; Finke, whose party has presided over probably half a dozen cycles of Minneapolis district conventions breaking down into riots&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;is making vigorous noises about violbla beingbla bla unacceptibiblablabla. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, I had a chat with Shawn Holster about the new, vastly streamlined Minneapolis GOP. It&#8217;s a reform that makes sense &#8211; going from four Senate district and 13 ward committees to a single city organization. No more wondering what side of what arbitrary dividing line you live on, no more wondering if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,320,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-mndfl","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131","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=85131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85132,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85131\/revisions\/85132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}