{"id":89145,"date":"2025-01-27T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89145"},"modified":"2025-01-27T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T13:22:09","slug":"enabling-the-addict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89145","title":{"rendered":"Enabling The Addict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s become fairly clear over the past two weeks that the MN DFL isn&#8217;t playing hooky from the House because they care about Brad Tabke or the voters of 40B.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They are hiding &#8211; my opinion, here, but I&#8217;ll stand by it &#8211; that they are doing it because GOP majorities on committees mean investigaions and public hearings:<\/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\">The MN Supreme Court acted on a Friday afternoon in order to prevent THIS committee hearing from occurring first thing Monday morning.<br><br>What are Democrats trying to hide from the public? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NGSQDRvtZ0\">pic.twitter.com\/NGSQDRvtZ0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Bill Glahn (@billglahn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billglahn\/status\/1883227317352411524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>GOP rule at <em>sny <\/em>level will mean looking at harsh truths about Minnesota government.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">The idea that 15 years of DFL rule have left it a cold Chicago is hard to assimilate.\u00a0 And our media and establishment (ptr) will work overtime to make sure that soothing notion doesn&#8217;t get disturbed.\u00a0 <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/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\">&quot;DFL lawmakers have been boycotting the session to stop Republicans from acting on the one seat edge they have due to a vacancy.&quot; <br><br>Translation: they don&#39;t want Republicans to use their one seat majority to elect the Speaker, decide on committees, especially the new Fraud\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uRQW0Stn5A\">https:\/\/t.co\/uRQW0Stn5A<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rep. Marion (O&#39;Neill) Rarick (@MarionONeill1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarionONeill1\/status\/1883617057092309207?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I think most Minnesotans deep down still think MN is still the state of Humphrey and Anderson, or even Tim Pawlenty and Mike Hatch &#8211; that it&#8217;s a &#8220;Good Government&#8221; state no matter which party wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">And until that happens &#8211; until this state &#8220;bottoms out&#8221; &#8211; there will be no fixing Minnesota. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become fairly clear over the past two weeks that the MN DFL isn&#8217;t playing hooky from the House because they care about Brad Tabke or the voters of 40B.\u00a0 They are hiding &#8211; my opinion, here, but I&#8217;ll stand by it &#8211; that they are doing it because GOP majorities on committees mean investigaions [&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-89145","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\/89145","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=89145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89147,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89145\/revisions\/89147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}