{"id":89247,"date":"2025-02-14T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89247"},"modified":"2025-02-14T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T13:22:56","slug":"game-of-crones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89247","title":{"rendered":"Game Of Crones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tina Smith is retiring from the Senate, citing health.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So &#8211; who&#8217;s turn is it in DC?<\/p>\n<p>Tim Walz has made noises about running &#8211; and clearly lusts after DC real estate.\u00a0 More on that maybe next week. <\/p>\n<p>Peggy Flanagan came right out of the gate, though, and announced yesterday.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>No huge surprise there.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Of course, some of her support rates a grim chuckle:<\/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\">I am so excited to hear that our Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan is going to run for U.S. Senate! Her lived experience, proven leadership, and heart for public service will represent Minnesota well at the U.S. Capitol! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wP6GPZyHMZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/wP6GPZyHMZ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cheryl Youakim (@CLYouakim) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLYouakim\/status\/1890234662896939474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Her &#8220;lived experience&#8221; is entirely as part of the non-profit\/DFL\/industrial complex; she has never <em>not <\/em>been a first or second-tier government employee.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to &#8220;proven leadership?&#8221;  The only issue I can recall about her actually <em>leading<\/em>, as opposed to posturing&#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\">No thanks- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UhtPuoT1cq\">pic.twitter.com\/UhtPuoT1cq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; StPaulsilver (@silverstpaul) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/silverstpaul\/status\/1890235902242570404?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 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;was when as chair of the Capitol Architecture Committee she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74464\">let a group of her cronies tear down the statue of Christopher Columbus<\/a> on the Capitol mall, and then made sure their leader and token arrestee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75014\">&#8220;sentenced&#8221; to teach kids about the evils of Christopher Columbu<\/a>s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now <em>that&#8217;s <\/em>leadership.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides Walz (ahem), we&#8217;ve Ilhan Omar, Jacob Frey, and we&#8217;ve got late-breaking rumors that  Leigh Finke is mulling throwintg Leigh Finke&#8217;s hat into the ring:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Smith is retiring from the Senate, citing health. So &#8211; who&#8217;s turn is it in DC? Tim Walz has made noises about running &#8211; and clearly lusts after DC real estate.\u00a0 More on that maybe next week. Peggy Flanagan came right out of the gate, though, and announced yesterday.\u00a0 No huge surprise there.\u00a0 Of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-congressional","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89247","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=89247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89250,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89247\/revisions\/89250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}