{"id":89152,"date":"2025-01-28T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89152"},"modified":"2025-01-28T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:27:40","slug":"89152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89152","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Chicago, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the GOP apparently had a pretty full agenda for hearings on corruption in Minnesota, before the Supreme Court <em>unexpectedly <\/em>re-edited the quorum provisions in the Minnesota Constitution.\u00a0<\/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\">LIVE: Minnesota House Republicans hold a press conference on fraud prevention, whistleblower complaints <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F7RmhMeg7L\">https:\/\/t.co\/F7RmhMeg7L<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1883930875362218339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2025<\/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 meantime, the DFL had protesters outside the committees press conference&#8230;<\/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\">Democrats protesting members of the Fraud Prevention and State Government Oversight Committee.<br><br>Apparently, they&#39;re for fraud?<br><br>They were looking for Tabke?<br><br>Wrong building. He hasn&#39;t been to work for two weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ykd9AEYgnn\">pic.twitter.com\/ykd9AEYgnn<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1883936802475762053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;apparently protesting <em>for <\/em>fraud.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanexperiment.org\/minnesota-scandal-tracker-2024\/\">Scandal Tracker, produced by Bill Glahn<\/a>, that Rep. Robbins referred to.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0Rep. Robbins reports over two dozen whistleblower reports, and already some tampering and intimidation of whistleblowers,<\/p>\n<p>And, amazingly enough, House hearings on a <em>whisteblower protection <\/em>bill were canceled as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;da thunk it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the GOP apparently had a pretty full agenda for hearings on corruption in Minnesota, before the Supreme Court unexpectedly re-edited the quorum provisions in the Minnesota Constitution.\u00a0 In the meantime, the DFL had protesters outside the committees press conference&#8230; &#8230;apparently protesting for fraud. Here&#8217;s the Scandal Tracker, produced by Bill Glahn, that Rep. Robbins [&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":[473],"class_list":["post-89152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-dfl-power-grab-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152","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=89152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89162,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152\/revisions\/89162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}