{"id":87172,"date":"2024-11-01T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87172"},"modified":"2024-11-01T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:35:48","slug":"remembering-what-pepperidge-farm-doesnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87172","title":{"rendered":"Remembering What Pepperidge Farm Doesn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since we have an election coming up, let&#8217;s take a trip down memory lane.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s Rep. Dave Pinto, progsplaining last session why DFL prosecutors won&#8217;t go after straw buyers &#8211; because the sentences are &#8220;too low&#8221;&#8230;<\/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\">Rep Dave Pinto, arguing AGAINST hiking the penalty for straw purchasers, says that criminals are not charged under the existing law because it is only a gross misdemeanor and not a felony. <br><br>Rep. Scott&#39;s bill would have increased the penalty from a gross misdemeanor to a felony. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LwZLdk6QX0\">pic.twitter.com\/LwZLdk6QX0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; MN House GOP Rapid Response (@MNHRCWarRoom) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNHRCWarRoom\/status\/1768395814357881163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;before joining his entire caucus in voting down a bill that would have increased the sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pinto will get re-elected.   He&#8217;s in a nauseatingly save DFL district. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you live somewhere in play?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your mission is clear.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we have an election coming up, let&#8217;s take a trip down memory lane. Here&#8217;s Rep. Dave Pinto, progsplaining last session why DFL prosecutors won&#8217;t go after straw buyers &#8211; because the sentences are &#8220;too low&#8221;&#8230; &#8230;before joining his entire caucus in voting down a bill that would have increased the sentence. Pinto will get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,132,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87172","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=87172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87175,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87172\/revisions\/87175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}