{"id":86093,"date":"2023-09-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86093"},"modified":"2023-09-21T21:26:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T02:26:56","slug":"86093","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86093","title":{"rendered":"All The Racket About Rackets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  Mitcn BERG walks into Wendy&#8217;s for one of their Caesar Salads &#8211; a low-carb treat if there ever was one. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>BERG sees Avery LIBRELLE, standing at the counter, talking with an exasperated but polite looking COUNTER PERSON. BERG tiptoes up behind LIBRELLE. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Hey, Avery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  Uh&#8230;Merg&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  The DFL is basically a racket that slaps a veneer of participatory democracy on top of a process where Ken Martin uses abstruse party rules to enforce the whims of the plutocrats who prop the party up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE:  That&#8217;s absurd. Only a wingnut would say such a thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  A wingnut like the deputy chair of the Minneapolis City DFL?:<\/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\">I\u2019ve resigned my role as Minneapolis DFL Vice Chair effective immediately.<br><br>Thank you to Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianaRoseLee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BrianaRoseLee<\/a> and my volunteer colleagues at the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinneapolisDFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MinneapolisDFL<\/a> for our time serving together.<br><br>Warmest regards to my haters.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0UUik1TADg\">https:\/\/t.co\/0UUik1TADg<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKitVBw6Vy\">pic.twitter.com\/qKitVBw6Vy<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Norton (@NortonMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NortonMpls\/status\/1704568088291606662?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LIBRELLE: (<em>Stares blankly off into space<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  Caesar and a diet Coke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COUNTER PERSON:  And what does he&#8230;er, she&#8230;er&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BERG:  No idea.  (<em>Drops a tenner<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: Mitcn BERG walks into Wendy&#8217;s for one of their Caesar Salads &#8211; a low-carb treat if there ever was one. BERG sees Avery LIBRELLE, standing at the counter, talking with an exasperated but polite looking COUNTER PERSON. BERG tiptoes up behind LIBRELLE. BERG: Hey, Avery. LIBRELLE: Uh&#8230;Merg&#8230; BERG: The DFL is basically a racket [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86093","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=86093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86095,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86093\/revisions\/86095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}