{"id":10356,"date":"2010-04-27T11:59:54","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T16:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10356"},"modified":"2010-04-27T10:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T15:53:10","slug":"the-meeks-shall-inherit-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=10356","title":{"rendered":"The Meeks Shall Inherit The Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Emmer has picked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/state\/92177344.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU\">Annette Meeks<\/a>\u00a0as his running mate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Meeks is a member of the Metropolitan Council &#8212; a public body Emmer has singled out for criticism in the past. She founded and heads the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, a, non-profit organization that &#8220;develops and actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic freedom, and limited government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She volunteered to help promote the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul and was deputy chief of staff for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meeks was a key part of Newt Gingrich&#8217;s staff in 1994.\u00a0 She&#8217;s got more experience at changing and improving government in her fingernails than the entire DFL ticket all rolled together.<\/p>\n<p>Meeks is a <em>spectacular <\/em>choice.\u00a0 And I don&#8217;t just say that because she&#8217;s an admitted reader of this blog.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats, Annette!\u00a0 See you at the convention!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Emmer has picked Annette Meeks\u00a0as his running mate: Meeks is a member of the Metropolitan Council &#8212; a public body Emmer has singled out for criticism in the past. She founded and heads the Freedom Foundation of Minnesota, a, non-profit organization that &#8220;develops and actively advocates the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-mngop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356","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=10356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10359,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10356\/revisions\/10359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}