{"id":89764,"date":"2025-07-09T06:34:40","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T11:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89764"},"modified":"2025-07-10T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T11:19:57","slug":"the-distilled-genius-of-peggy-flanagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89764","title":{"rendered":"The Distilled Genius Of Peggy Flanagan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rarely do we mere mortals share a time and space with a person like Peggy Flanagan.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A person who has led by example her entire public life &#8211; including her early turn on the Minneapolis School Board&#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\">At 25, I became the youngest member of the Minneapolis School Board.<br><br>I fought every day to make sure every kid got the education they deserved.<br><br>We need leaders who will fight for all of us in DC, not puppets for the wealthy &amp; well-connected. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7TsXUZ6veF\">pic.twitter.com\/7TsXUZ6veF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Peggy Flanagan (@peggyflanagan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peggyflanagan\/status\/1941977946014564361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 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>&#8230;starting the Minneapolis Public Schools&#8217; meteoric rise in achievement over the past 20 years, turning it into the beacon of exceptional learning that it is today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, she&#8217;s not resting on her laurels:<\/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\">Tariffs are just taxes. Pass it on.<\/p>&mdash; Peggy Flanagan (@peggyflanagan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peggyflanagan\/status\/1942387941256421874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 8, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Brilliant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Know what else are taxes, Madame Lieutenant Goverrnor?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taxes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like the ones your administration and legislative &#8220;trifecta&#8221; jacked up, statewide,\u00a0<em>after\u00a0<\/em>squandering a $18 Billion surplus, accelerating Minnesota&#8217;s slide to &#8220;below average&#8221; in gross product per capita.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She could be our next Senator.\u00a0 Or Governor.\u00a0 Or whatever the machine decides they want her to be.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely do we mere mortals share a time and space with a person like Peggy Flanagan.&nbsp;&nbsp; A person who has led by example her entire public life &#8211; including her early turn on the Minneapolis School Board&#8230;: &#8230;starting the Minneapolis Public Schools&#8217; meteoric rise in achievement over the past 20 years, turning it into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89764","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=89764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89766,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89764\/revisions\/89766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}