{"id":89920,"date":"2025-09-17T06:01:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89920"},"modified":"2025-09-17T06:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T11:02:03","slug":"stay-the-curse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89920","title":{"rendered":"Stay The Curse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tim Walz is running for Governor again.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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\">I\u2019m running for reelection to continue serving as Governor of Minnesota.<br><br>We\u2019ve made historic progress in our state, but we\u2019re not done yet. I\u2019m staying in the fight \u2014 and I need you with me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NsVCXfq4M2\">pic.twitter.com\/NsVCXfq4M2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz\/status\/1967936393747063151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 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 governor who, <em>at best<\/em>, ignored well over $1B in fraud, set up a snitch line and a badthink database, squandered a $19B surplus, ran one of the most club-footed Covid responses in the country, and supports censoring people like me, wants another go-around.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even some DFLers have had enough&#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\">I\u2019ve voted for Tim Walz twice (three times if you count when he ran for vice president). That seems like enough times. <br><br>Would be great to see someone seriously challenge Walz in the DFL primary, because you know the MN GOP won\u2019t endorse anyone worth voting for. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZWzsMUIrZ7\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZWzsMUIrZ7<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Mike Norton (@NortonMpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NortonMpls\/status\/1968019778846753272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 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;although if Walz doesn&#8217;t get the nomination it&#8217;ll be because someone to his left beats him.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"_wp_link_placeholder\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">the law<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who&#8217;s up for four more years of Piglet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[459,2,320,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dsa","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920","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=89920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89921,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89920\/revisions\/89921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}