{"id":87505,"date":"2024-05-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87505"},"modified":"2024-05-07T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:11:53","slug":"shock-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87505","title":{"rendered":"Shock The World?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had Marisa SImonetti on my show the weekend before last.   She&#8217;s a conservative candidate for Hennepin County Commissioner. She&#8217;s running for the District Six seat: <\/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\">Voting begins today. Let\u2019s go <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/M_Simonetti28?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@M_Simonetti28<\/a> Please retweet and share this to get our message out! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SD50GOP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SD50GOP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReclaimMN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReclaimMN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marisa4Hennepin?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Marisa4Hennepin<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EMr596Fqoo\">pic.twitter.com\/EMr596Fqoo<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SD50MNGOP (@SD50MNGOP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SD50MNGOP\/status\/1787526481939255779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the intervening weeks, she came in second in the run-off election to run against <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Heather_Edelson\">Heather Edelson<\/a> to represent the southwestern part of Hennepin County:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-2-1024x657.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87506\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-2-1024x657.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-2-300x192.png 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-2-768x492.png 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-2-468x300.png 468w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-2.png 1179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Heather Edelson?&#8221;, you may say.  &#8220;Have I heard of her?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why yes.  She was in the MN Legislature, defeating Dario Anselmo in the 2022 election.   Her <em>sole <\/em>&#8220;accomplishent&#8221; was writing legislation that would ban gas powered lawn mowers.  Because that&#8217;s the issue &#8211; unpleasant noises in bucolic Edina side streets &#8211; that keeps working Minnesotans up at night.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She wants to leave the legislature and bring that <em>amazing freaking talent<\/em> to the Henco Board.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Edelson (and her record of <em>stunning, courageous <\/em>achievements) have a ton of name recognition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Simonetti got over 30% of the vote in the qualifying round.  And with enough name recognition, and enough pissed-off people of all parties bum-rushing the polls next week, we could really shock the world, here.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which is where you come in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you live in the district:  Get to the polls.  Bring friends and family.  These county special elections are normally snooze fests; if people turn out, it&#8217;s winnable.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you live outside the district?  Call your friends who live there.  Get them out to the polls.  Drive them.  Ply them with cigarettes and liquor, I don&#8217;t care.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll be interviewing Simonetti on my show on Saturday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s send Heather back home, to listen to gas mowers all day long. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had Marisa SImonetti on my show the weekend before last. She&#8217;s a conservative candidate for Hennepin County Commissioner. She&#8217;s running for the District Six seat: In the intervening weeks, she came in second in the run-off election to run against Heather Edelson to represent the southwestern part of Hennepin County: &#8220;Heather Edelson?&#8221;, you may [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87505","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=87505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87507,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87505\/revisions\/87507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}