{"id":88378,"date":"2024-09-20T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88378"},"modified":"2024-09-20T06:42:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T11:42:39","slug":"schools-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88378","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gene Pelowski &#8211; one of the few DFL house members in a relatively rural area, from HD26A, which is the very southeast corner of Minnesota &#8211; is retiring from office.<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s having second thoughts about the DFL&#8217;s trifecta:<\/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\">Wow. No longer beholden to his caucus, retiring Democrat Representative Gene Pelowski says &quot;it would be a good thing for Minnesota&quot; if Republicans take back the House, restore divided government, and commit to an &quot;un-session&quot; focused on repeals and fixes.<br><br>Amen. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qHBVB42Rx7\">pic.twitter.com\/qHBVB42Rx7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1836506954622960088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, I applaud, and approve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other &#8211; where was all this independence over the past two legislative sessions?<\/p>\n<p>I get it &#8211; the DFL had a four vote majority, so being a single dissident would have no effect other than getting him mau-maued by his own caucus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One hopes the GOP can pick this distsrict up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Pelowski &#8211; one of the few DFL house members in a relatively rural area, from HD26A, which is the very southeast corner of Minnesota &#8211; is retiring from office. And he&#8217;s having second thoughts about the DFL&#8217;s trifecta: On the one hand, I applaud, and approve.\u00a0 On the other &#8211; where was all this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378","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=88378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88379,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88378\/revisions\/88379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}