{"id":89829,"date":"2025-08-06T07:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89829"},"modified":"2025-08-06T07:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:08:05","slug":"one-day-at-mndfl-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89829","title":{"rendered":"One Day At MNDFL HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SCENE:\u00a0 It’s a typical weekday at the MNDFL headquarters.\u00a0 Richard CARLBOM, the chair, is meeting with activist Avery LIBRELLE and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, party executive Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, as well as Betty Rae TORSTENGAARDSEN, from the (possibly fictional) progressive blog \u201cMinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com\u201c.\u00a0 She was Lac Qui Parle County Dairy Princess in 1987, and voted \u201cmost likely to end up as a freelance political writer\u201d by her sorority at U of M Morris in 1992.<\/em><\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 So polling is showing that Minnesotans are getting concerned about the amount of fraud in Minnesota government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

CARROLL:\u00a0 \u00a0I say we do what we always do – bully voters into silence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0 It worked well during the Same Sex Marriage issue in 2012!<\/p>\n

CARROLL: (Sotto voce<\/em>) Brown noser…<\/p>\n

CARLBOM: (Beaming\u02c6).\u00a0<\/em>Yeah, those\u00a0were the\u00a0<\/em>days.\u00a0 But I think we need something different.\u00a0 The other side has given up the illusion that Minnesota is the same as the one Garrison Keillor talked about.\u00a0 We need to step up the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 How?<\/p>\n

CARLBOM:\u00a0 Hear me out.\u00a0 \u00a0We don’t just double down.\u00a0 We dec-tuple down.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

CARROLL:\u00a0 We make fraud…cool<\/em>!<\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0 Sort of like “celebrate your abortion” for graft!<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 How do we do that?<\/p>\n

CARLBOM:\u00a0 \u00a0We run a campaign showing DFL pols, stakeholders, non-profiteers and the like, revelling in the wealth they’ve gained from…somewhere.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

BIRKENSTOCK:\u00a0 Show Omar Fateh driving down the street in a Bentley!<\/p>\n

CARROLL:\u00a0 “Don’t you want to be like Omar?”<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE:\u00a0 So pitch defrauding the state as…<\/p>\n

CARLBOM:\u00a0 The ultimate social program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

CARROLL:\u00a0 I\u00a0like it!<\/em><\/p>\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SCENE:\u00a0 It’s a typical weekday at the MNDFL headquarters.\u00a0 Richard CARLBOM, the chair, is meeting with activist Avery LIBRELLE and Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK, party executive Inge “Lucky” CARROLL, as well as Betty Rae TORSTENGAARDSEN, from the (possibly fictional) progressive blog \u201cMinnesotaLiberalAlliance.Blogspot.com\u201c.\u00a0 She was Lac Qui Parle County Dairy Princess in 1987, and voted \u201cmost likely to […]<\/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":[236],"class_list":["post-89829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","tag-dramatization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89829","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=89829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89830,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89829\/revisions\/89830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}