{"id":90142,"date":"2026-02-11T06:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90142"},"modified":"2026-02-11T06:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:15:26","slug":"squirrel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=90142","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is what&#8217;s been bothering me. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re heading toward an election that might be the MNGOP&#8217;s best chance to move the needle in executive offices in a very long time. \u00a0The DFL&#8217;s fraud problem\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>by all rights give the GOP a shot at governor, if the GOP can pick a solid candidate (and the straw polls so far say we just might). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And on the surface Richard Carlbom, the new chair of the DFL, doens&#8217;t appear to be the glib money master that his predecessor, Ken Martin, was. \u00a0(And don&#8217;t you\u00a0<em>dare\u00a0<\/em>let anyone say he looks like a young Herman G\u00f6ring).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the problem. \u00a0Remember 2012? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Voter ID Amendment &#8211; which is an 80\/20 issue nationwide, and even wins a majority of Democrats in public opinion polls- should have been an easy winner. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Carlbom engineering a campaign that emotionally logrolled ignorant, emotion driven Minnesotans into tying voting &#8220;yes&#8221; on same sex marriage to voting &#8220;no&#8221; on voter ID. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the morons did it. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And he&#8217;s doing it again, with the ICE thing. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History doesn&#8217;t repeat, but it color-coordinates.  <\/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-90142","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\/90142","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=90142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90143,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90142\/revisions\/90143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}