{"id":86293,"date":"2023-10-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86293"},"modified":"2023-10-23T06:40:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:40:54","slug":"one-day-at-the-mndfl-communications-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86293","title":{"rendered":"One Day At The MNDFL Communications Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  In a drab back room at MNDFL headquarters on Plato Boulevard, two DFL communications staffers, Evan BRYANT (Macalester 2021) and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK (St. Thomas 2018) are pecking away at their iPhones, poring over their social media plan for the week. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  Chairman Martin says people are starting to get tired of crime?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  Where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  Oh, rednecks in Fridley and Bemidji, mostly.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  Yuck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK. I know, right?  But their votes still count&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  For now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  LOL, right?  Anyway, we need to put out something that shows the administration and the Attorney General are engaged on crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  Let&#8217;s do 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\">When landlords try to charge illegal fees, I will stop them.<br><br>When they try to evict tenants who don&#39;t pay those illegal fees, I will stop them.<br><br>When people break the law and make it harder for Minnesotans to afford their lives, I will stop them.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6TYJHXHwLm\">https:\/\/t.co\/6TYJHXHwLm<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Attorney General Keith Ellison (@AGEllison) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGEllison\/status\/1715117613548806246?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  Oh, that&#8217;s good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  But someone just left a comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK: (<em>Reading a reply on Twitter<\/em>). &#8220;So how about rampant violent and property crime, and half a billion in fraud committed by DFL constituents and contributors?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  Hmmm &#8211; tough one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  I got it.  Tweet out this photo of Lt. Governor Flanagan feeding Ellison and Governor Walz corn dogs at the State Fair!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  I&#8217;ll caption it &#8220;#OneMinnesota&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BIRKENSTOCK:  Brilliant.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BRYANT:  And on message!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: In a drab back room at MNDFL headquarters on Plato Boulevard, two DFL communications staffers, Evan BRYANT (Macalester 2021) and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK (St. Thomas 2018) are pecking away at their iPhones, poring over their social media plan for the week. BIRKENSTOCK: Chairman Martin says people are starting to get tired of crime? BRYANT: Where? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,320],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-86293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-mndfl","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86293","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=86293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86308,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86293\/revisions\/86308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}