{"id":87147,"date":"2024-03-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87147"},"modified":"2024-03-13T07:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T12:47:04","slug":"edminns-curious-self-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87147","title":{"rendered":"EdMinn&#8217;s Curious Self-Indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wait &#8211; didn&#8217;t the DFL in the Legislature spend most of April and May of last year doing the endzone happy dance celebrating having &#8220;fully funded&#8221; education?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do believe they did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; what is up with 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\">MN teachers are paid 28% less than workers with the same education level. Many hourly school workers make minimum wage.<br><br>RSVP NOW for our Educator Pay Day of Action on March 25. Join us at the Capitol to lobby <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a> for state investment in higher pay. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/enhNZOFFSQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/enhNZOFFSQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XkSQTTQZvU\">pic.twitter.com\/XkSQTTQZvU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Education Minnesota (@EducationMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EducationMN\/status\/1766621261562589581?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, when you asked a DFL legislator or an EdMN partisan what &#8220;Full Funding&#8221; meant, the &#8220;answers&#8221; should have come with a side of blue cheese for all the word salad.  It was gibberish.  And that was just the ones that didn&#8217;t ignore the question entirely. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we see now, pretty much intentionally so. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait &#8211; didn&#8217;t the DFL in the Legislature spend most of April and May of last year doing the endzone happy dance celebrating having &#8220;fully funded&#8221; education? I do believe they did. So &#8211; what is up with this? Now, when you asked a DFL legislator or an EdMN partisan what &#8220;Full Funding&#8221; meant, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,321,10,132,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-big-left","category-education","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147","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=87147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87158,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87147\/revisions\/87158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}