{"id":89239,"date":"2025-02-12T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89239"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T13:30:15","slug":"the-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89239","title":{"rendered":"The Majority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While the fracas in the MN House is getting all the attention, the DFL is having to battle for their electoral lives in the Senate, where their one-vote rests on Senator Nicole Mitchell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reasoning is getting clearer and clearer<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Becker County Attorney Brian McDonald added a second burglary charge Monday against state Sen. Nicole Mitchell focusing on items she had with her when police encountered her stepmother\u2019s home in April 2024 in Detroit Lakes….Mitchell\u2019s case was supposed to go to trial in late January, but her defense team invoked a Minnesota law saying lawmakers cannot be required to attend court proceedings during a legislative session. That delayed Mitchell\u2019s case until June and possibly later, depending on when the 2025 session wraps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new complaint includes more details about her alleged interaction with police. It says Mitchell told an officer \u201cI\u2019m just hoping this mistake won\u2019t completely f*** up my life\u201d and that she voiced alarm about affecting her military retirement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

She’s gonna leave the Senate, one way or another, and while two tied chambers isn’t any bigger of a hassle for the Governor and DFL and their agenda than one tied chamber, Woodbury isn’t so utterly safe that they can take anything for granted.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While the fracas in the MN House is getting all the attention, the DFL is having to battle for their electoral lives in the Senate, where their one-vote rests on Senator Nicole Mitchell. The reasoning is getting clearer and clearer: She’s gonna leave the Senate, one way or another, and while two tied chambers isn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,132,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89239","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=89239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89242,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89239\/revisions\/89242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}