{"id":88913,"date":"2024-12-19T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88913"},"modified":"2024-12-19T06:31:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T12:31:49","slug":"what-a-difference-losing-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88913","title":{"rendered":"What A Difference Losing Makes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tim Walz is back<\/p>\n

And he’s pissed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems a bit of a squabble has broken out between his camp and Lt Governor Flanagan<\/a>‘s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Walz was asked in a recent interview if there was tension when he returned given Flanagan would have succeeded him as governor if the Harris ticket had won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Walz responded. \u201cThere would be time to figure out all that afterwards. I was solely focused on making sure the state of Minnesota was going, we were getting things done. The lieutenant governor was here doing the work that she needed to do, reaching out to community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Others who spoke on condition of anonymity said the Walz team was not pleased at steps Flanagan had taken to assume the governorship, conferring with potential key hires and preparing for a possible run herself in 2026. \u201cIf the people of Minnesota want me to continue to serve, I am absolutely open to that,\u201d Flanagan said<\/a> at the State Fair in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Walz camp was especially irked because Flanagan had tapped Walz\u2019s gubernatorial campaign fund without authorization for some work, multiple sources said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Walz is claiming to know nothing, NOTHing, about the matter. But I’m not the only one thinking something’s amiss:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven Schier, Carleton College political science professor emeritus, said it\u2019s not uncommon in Minnesota for the governor and lieutenant governor to maintain a distance from each other. \u201cWhat is notable are the timing of this and the apparent reasons for it,\u201d Schier said. \u201cPeggy Flanagan and Walz were joined at the hip for six years<\/strong> and now they seem separated by their individual ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Joined at the hip is an understatement. I rarely recall seeing Lieutenant Governors consistently appearing with the Governor before Walz. One rarely saw Tina Smith or Mae Schunk or Joan Growe outside the odd campaign event or the State of the State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Flanagan was in every photo <\/em> this past six years.  They had hundreds of shots of the two of them cavorting about the Fair, her feeding him corn dogs and playing fetch with him.  Her name was arguably more prominent than his on their campaign signs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And the optics – literally – are absolutely strange on this. <\/p>\n

More later today. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Walz is back And he’s pissed.  It seems a bit of a squabble has broken out between his camp and Lt Governor Flanagan‘s: Walz is claiming to know nothing, NOTHing, about the matter. But I’m not the only one thinking something’s amiss: Steven Schier, Carleton College political science professor emeritus, said it\u2019s not uncommon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,144,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-26","category-governor","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88913","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=88913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88928,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88913\/revisions\/88928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}