{"id":10347,"date":"2010-04-27T05:59:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2010-04-27T05:59:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:59:40","slug":"if-a-tree-fell-in-the-woods-and-nobody-heard-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10347","title":{"rendered":"If A Tree Fell In The Woods And Nobody Heard It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Gaertner <a href=\"http:\/\/kstp.com\/article\/stories\/S1530619.shtml?cat=89\">leaves the goober race.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Prosecutor Susan Gaertner left the Minnesota governor&#8217;s race Monday, saying she didn&#8217;t want to be &#8220;a spoiler&#8221; in Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher&#8217;s quest to become the first woman to win the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, nothing like having a good reason.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The coast isn&#8217;t clear, though. Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton and former state Rep. Matt Entenza continue to seek the Democratic nomination in the August primary.<\/p>\n<p>Gaertner, the Ramsey County attorney, declined to endorse any of the candidates, but she said Minnesota has never come closer to electing a female governor.Kelliher became the first woman to win major-party endorsement for the state&#8217;s highest office when the Democratic Party backed her campaign in Duluth on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the closest Minnesota has yet to come to electing a female governor,&#8221; Gaertner said at a Capitol news conference. &#8220;That would be history-making.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if she&#8217;d have left the race if the Laura Brod had run and been endorsed?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Gaertner leaves the goober race. Prosecutor Susan Gaertner left the Minnesota governor&#8217;s race Monday, saying she didn&#8217;t want to be &#8220;a spoiler&#8221; in Democrat Margaret Anderson Kelliher&#8217;s quest to become the first woman to win the job. Well, nothing like having a good reason. The coast isn&#8217;t clear, though. Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10348,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions\/10348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}