{"id":89307,"date":"2025-02-27T08:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89307"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:02:33","slug":"open-letter-to-mayor-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89307","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Mayor Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:&nbsp; Mayor Melvin Carter, Saint Paul<br>From:&nbsp; Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant and Human ATM<br>Re:&nbsp; Election Denier?<\/p>\n<p>Mayor, <\/p>\n<p>You said this yesterday:<\/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\">Carter \u2014 joined by city attorney, entire city council, police chief, fire chief, ISAIAH, faith leaders \u2014 says St. Paul will join a lawsuit filed by San Francisco against the Trump administration playing politics with federal funding for cities. We pay federal income taxes: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X6ESYZVf7w\">https:\/\/t.co\/X6ESYZVf7w<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C9MIolQTtO\">pic.twitter.com\/C9MIolQTtO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Frederick Melo, Reporter\/Axolotl (@FrederickMelo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrederickMelo\/status\/1894860907819475165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 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>Quick point of order, yerroner &#8211; the rest of us pay taxes, too.\u00a0 Lots and lots of them.<\/p>\n<p>And we won the election.\u00a0 In an electoral-college landslide, in fact.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t you glad the Senate still has a filibuster?<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:&nbsp; Mayor Melvin Carter, Saint PaulFrom:&nbsp; Mitch Berg, Ornery Peasant and Human ATMRe:&nbsp; Election Denier? Mayor, You said this yesterday: Quick point of order, yerroner &#8211; the rest of us pay taxes, too.\u00a0 Lots and lots of them. And we won the election.\u00a0 In an electoral-college landslide, in fact.\u00a0 Aren&#8217;t you glad the Senate still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,320,28],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-89307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-mndfl","category-st-paul","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89307","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=89307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89312,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89307\/revisions\/89312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}