{"id":89221,"date":"2025-02-06T07:52:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89221"},"modified":"2025-02-06T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:56:39","slug":"in-their-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89221","title":{"rendered":"In Their Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Melissa Hortman folded her hand yesterday, and said the House DFL would come back to work.\u00a0\u00a0 Lisa Demuth is the Speaker, and the GOP controls the committees, at least until after the 40B Special on March 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are a few Republicans &#8211; largely from the crowd that thinks &#8220;Minnesota Gun Rights&#8221; is an actual gun rights group in Minnesota &#8211; who think it was a defeat for the GOP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s let a DFLer address that:<\/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\">For those claiming tonight&#39;s deal wasn&#39;t a win for Republicans, I present the Democrat base. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3R0mA8hao3\">pic.twitter.com\/3R0mA8hao3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Walter Hudson (@WalterHudson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1887356576932954263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For someone who&#8217;s gotten a little fatalistic about Minnesota Republicans screwing every pooch that can be screwed, it was a very good day.\u00a0\u00a0 This is not your fathers House GOP Caucus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Hortman folded her hand yesterday, and said the House DFL would come back to work.\u00a0\u00a0 Lisa Demuth is the Speaker, and the GOP controls the committees, at least until after the 40B Special on March 11.\u00a0 There are a few Republicans &#8211; largely from the crowd that thinks &#8220;Minnesota Gun Rights&#8221; is an actual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,72,13],"tags":[473],"class_list":["post-89221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-mngop","category-republicans","tag-the-dfl-power-grab-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89221","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=89221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89222,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89221\/revisions\/89222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}