{"id":88512,"date":"2024-10-23T10:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88512"},"modified":"2024-10-24T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:05:00","slug":"one-day-at-dfl-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88512","title":{"rendered":"One Day At DFL HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>SCENE:  In a conference room at the MN DFL headquarters.  Chair Ken Martin is sitting along one side of the table with Gretel STROMBERG and Inge &#8220;Lucky&#8221; CARROLL, the executive director and chief social media meme-buffer at &#8220;Minnesotans United for All Conservative Causes&#8221;, the state&#8217;s primary non-profit political action committee that is no way, no how connected with the DFL, you racist pig.  Across the table sits Chad MANBUNFRONDSON, upper midwest outreach director for the Harris\/Walz campaign. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MANBUNFRONDSON:  So here&#8217;s the new ad we&#8217;re thinking to get out the vote in Minnesota. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>Clicks remote.&nbsp; Ad flickers onto the screen<\/em>)<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/KamalaHQ\/status\/1845531301958369452\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>MARTIN, CARROLL and STROMBERG look at each other.\u00a0 The silence is a little awkward<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>MARTIN (<em>finally<\/em>):\u00a0 It&#8217;s pure <em>genius!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(<em>CARROLL and STROMBERG applaud politely in the background<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>MANBUNFRONDSON:\u00a0 We just figured that after seeing her husband&#8217;s performance during Covid, where treating the state like a bunch of addled infants for 19 months got him re-elected, that we literally <em>couldn&#8217;t <\/em>go broke betting on the stupidity of MInnesotans.<\/p>\n<p>STROMBERG and CARROLL (<em>simultaneously<\/em>):\u00a0 You got that right.<\/p>\n<p>MANBUNFRONDSON:\u00a0 So, presuming the media vetted the Governor and his wife sufficiently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>MARTIN, CARROLL and STROMBERG <\/em>look awkwardly at each other. before bursting out laughing.\u00a0 MANBUNFRONSON, late to the joke, joins them).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MANBUNFRONSON:\u00a0 (<em>Catching is breath<\/em>) Yeah, I know.\u00a0 No matter how often I come here, I still can&#8217;t get used to this place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MARTIN (<em>Summoning a butler with a clap of his hands<\/em>):\u00a0 Let&#8217;s celebrate!<\/p>\n<p><em>And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCENE: In a conference room at the MN DFL headquarters. Chair Ken Martin is sitting along one side of the table with Gretel STROMBERG and Inge &#8220;Lucky&#8221; CARROLL, the executive director and chief social media meme-buffer at &#8220;Minnesotans United for All Conservative Causes&#8221;, the state&#8217;s primary non-profit political action committee that is no way, no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,20,320],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-88512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-24","category-democrats","category-mndfl","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88512","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=88512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88525,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88512\/revisions\/88525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}