{"id":85732,"date":"2023-08-18T06:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85732"},"modified":"2023-08-18T06:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T11:58:57","slug":"they-take-care-of-their-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85732","title":{"rendered":"They Take Care Of Their Own"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With redistricting, former senate minority leader With the \u201cparty of women\u201c, Melissa Lopez Franzen, got pushed out to make sure Ron Latz didn\u2019t wind up unemployed  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But no worries about Melissa. She\u2019s DFL. Once they are elected to something, <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotareformer.com\/briefs\/u-of-m-hires-former-senate-minority-leader-as-chief-lobbyist\/\">the system takes care of them<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The University of Minnesota on Wednesday announced it has hired former Senate Minority Leader Melisa L\u00f3pez Franzen as its next chief lobbyist at the State Capitol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beginning Aug. 28, L\u00f3pez Franzen will be the U\u2019s executive director of government and community relations, where she will oversee lobbying efforts for all five of the U\u2019s campuses and lobby her former colleagues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I did say they take care of their own, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>With her new role with the U, she will join a <a href=\"https:\/\/minnesotareformer.com\/2023\/03\/15\/theres-a-windstorm-at-the-minnesota-capitol-from-the-revolving-door\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">growing list of former Minnesota lawmakers turned lobbyists<\/a>, including former Sens. Tom Bakk, Patricia Torres Ray, Chuck Wiger and Jeff Hayden.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way, \u2013 go ahead and read the story, in the \u201cMinnesota, Reformer\u201d, yet another publication, sponsored by progressives with deep pockets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See if party affiliation is mentioned even once.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE:  but I will give this to the reformer: some of the inconvenient facts did make it in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/x.com\/andrewwagner\/status\/1692194248697720844?s=46&#038;t=NQICV0vfnJ7ol-tsbeTj-A\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nothing weird there at all.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Remember \u2013 it\u2019s the most transparent regime in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With redistricting, former senate minority leader With the \u201cparty of women\u201c, Melissa Lopez Franzen, got pushed out to make sure Ron Latz didn\u2019t wind up unemployed But no worries about Melissa. She\u2019s DFL. Once they are elected to something, the system takes care of them: The University of Minnesota on Wednesday announced it has hired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85732","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=85732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85735,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85732\/revisions\/85735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}