{"id":89771,"date":"2025-07-11T06:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89771"},"modified":"2025-07-11T07:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:13:07","slug":"that-state-governement-absurdist-bingo-card-is-getting-very-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89771","title":{"rendered":"That &#8220;State Government Absurdist Bingo Card&#8221; Is Getting Very Full"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, with the revelation last week that hiring managers and the MN Department of Human Services need to&nbsp;<em>explicitly justify&nbsp;<\/em>hiring white (presumably especially male) candidates for jobs, it&#8217;s not unreasonable to wonder &#8211; there must be some kind of deeply racist person driving these policies.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your reasonable question has been <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">rewarded with an answer<\/a>:<\/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\">EXCLUSIVE: Minnesota HR director now on leave after saying \u2018white folk\u2019 are \u2018morally bankrupt\u2019 and \u2018liars\u2019<br><br>Minnesota Pollution Control Agency HR Director Vonnie Phillips then called an Alpha News reporter a &quot;f-cking rotten b-tch&quot; from his official state email. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xxUjiL3vKe\">pic.twitter.com\/xxUjiL3vKe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlphaNewsMN\/status\/1943403859302293827?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The tipster raised concerns about Phillips and claimed his social media page is \u201clittered with racist comments about \u2018white folk.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After reviewing a Facebook page under the name Vonnie Phillips \u2014 filled with the type of content described by the tipster and a video tagging a woman whose name matches Phillips\u2019 wife in public records \u2014 Alpha News sent an inquiry to Phillips\u2019 state email address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his response, Phillips confirmed the Facebook page was his and lashed out at Alpha News reporter Jenna Gloeb in a profanity-laced tirade defending his posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGood luck,\u201d he wrote. \u201cMy Facebook page is within the \u2018protected concerted\u2019 activity guidelines, therefore, do what you want; nowhere on my Facebook page lists my employer; and the person, the gutless, worthless coward that reported me, the hell with them, please tell them I said that fool.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Ooof.  Someone played that one wrong.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And played it, and played it&#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\">A State of Minnesota Human Resources Director replied to my press inquiry about allegations of anti-white racism with: \u201cF-ck you, Jenna\u2026 f-cking rotten bitch.\u201d <br><br>And he sent it from his state email. Full story \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qiQXRKeuSF\">https:\/\/t.co\/qiQXRKeuSF<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jenna Gloeb (@Jenna_Gloeb) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jenna_Gloeb\/status\/1943404766500934117?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst part, to me at least, isn&#8217;t Phillips&#8217;s statements or actions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the culture of bureaucratic entitlement that allows bureaucrats to think that they&#8217;re OK acting like this on taxpayer time.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, with the revelation last week that hiring managers and the MN Department of Human Services need to&nbsp;explicitly justify&nbsp;hiring white (presumably especially male) candidates for jobs, it&#8217;s not unreasonable to wonder &#8211; there must be some kind of deeply racist person driving these policies.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your reasonable question has been rewarded with an answer: Ooof. Someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,54,2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-center-right-altmedia","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-minnesota-politics","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89771","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=89771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89773,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89771\/revisions\/89773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}