{"id":89662,"date":"2025-05-27T06:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89662"},"modified":"2025-05-27T06:20:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:20:42","slug":"democrat-female-leader-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89662","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Female Leader Math"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Katie Porter, former congresswoman from Orange County, is onto something &#8211; and, presumably, smoking some of the same ditch weed the DFLers who funded the Southwest Light Rail were into:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/katieporteroc\/status\/1926001655499071950\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>San Francisco to Oakland is 12 miles.\u00a0 Even driving an SUV and paying Californnia&#8217;s absurd gas prices, that&#8217;s half the price of the train.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re commuting for work?\u00a0 $12.65 a day is $63.25 a week, which is about $3162 a year.\u00a0\u00a0 You&#8217;d have to be paying some pretty ridiculous parking fees to make that worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Which may be true in Oakland (?), and the parking fees in Minneapolis and especially San Francisco will definitely wreck you.\u00a0 Eden Prairie, less so. <\/p>\n<p>But when you drive, you don&#8217;t as much opportunity to get mugged, or step on a syringe. <\/p>\n<p>Or have your kids see hookers plying their trade:<\/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\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/katieporteroc\/status\/1926001658669969794\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So I guess transit get the &#8220;W&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie Porter, former congresswoman from Orange County, is onto something &#8211; and, presumably, smoking some of the same ditch weed the DFLers who funded the Southwest Light Rail were into: San Francisco to Oakland is 12 miles.\u00a0 Even driving an SUV and paying Californnia&#8217;s absurd gas prices, that&#8217;s half the price of the train.\u00a0 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89662","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=89662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89663,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89662\/revisions\/89663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}