{"id":86513,"date":"2023-11-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86513"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:05:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T14:05:50","slug":"open-letter-to-governor-klink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86513","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Governor Klink"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:   Governor Wilhelm Walz, Co-Governor, State of Minnesota<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant<br>Re:  Hungry For The Truth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Governor, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You tweeted this yesterday:<\/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\">We just announced $5 million in new funding to address food insecurity across the state ahead of the holidays.<br><br>As we continue working to lower costs and make life easier for Minnesotans, we\u2019re making sure our state\u2019s food banks can keep helping families put food on the table.<\/p>&mdash; Governor Tim Walz (@GovTimWalz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovTimWalz\/status\/1726673168767836266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 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>And yet your administration and the DFL majorities in the Legislature told us that Minnesota&#8217;s economy was doing better than ever, that &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; was not a bitter joke whose self-induced inflation was no way no how hurting poor and working class people worse than the general population, and that the actions of this past session were going to reduce poverty by 30%.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If <em>any <\/em>of that were true, food banks wouldn&#8217;t be seeing unprecedented demand &#8211; would they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Governor Wilhelm Walz, Co-Governor, State of MinnesotaFrom: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous PeasantRe: Hungry For The Truth Governor, You tweeted this yesterday: And yet your administration and the DFL majorities in the Legislature told us that Minnesota&#8217;s economy was doing better than ever, that &#8220;Bidenomics&#8221; was not a bitter joke whose self-induced inflation was no way [&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-86513","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\/86513","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=86513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86514,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86513\/revisions\/86514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}