{"id":11452,"date":"2010-06-17T12:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T17:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2010-06-17T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T17:18:52","slug":"what-if-matt-entenza-released-a-plan-in-the-woods-and-nobody-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11452","title":{"rendered":"What If Matt Entenza Released A Plan In The Woods, And Nobody Heard?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Entenza, running a weak third in the DFL primary race,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/politics\/blogs\/96467824.html?elr=KArks8c7PaP3E77K_3c::D3aDhUec7PaP3E77K_0c::D3aDhUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU\">promised to release a &#8220;bold&#8221; &#8220;education&#8221; &#8220;plan&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza Thursday will release a &#8220;a bold education plan,&#8221; his campaign said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll talk about the plan on campaign stops in Duluth, St. Paul and Rochester.<\/p>\n<p>Entenza, who is vying in a DFL primary, took a hit at Republican candidate Tom Emmer in making his Wednesday announcement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During his tour Entenza will highlight a basic premise: to make Minnesota great again, we need to make our schools great again. It is a concept that Tom Emmer has failed to grasp,&#8221; the campaign release said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The swat at Emmer is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11431\">left&#8217;s latest meme<\/a>, trying to drag Emmer into talking specifics so the left and media (pardon the redundancy), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11431\">as we discussed yesterday<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you won&#8217;t see Mark Dayton or Margaret Anderson-Kelliher releasing &#8220;plans&#8221;.\u00a0 Entenza, trailing very badly in the race, has nothing to lose.<\/p>\n<p>Except that when he says it&#8217;s going to be a &#8220;bold&#8221; plan, set your expectations accordingly.\u00a0 Entenza was the founder of MN2020, a think tank that has, among other things, been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4878\">effusive <\/a>in supporting the Teachers Unions, and\u00a0 in reinforcing our wretched status quo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4886\">at the expense <\/a>of any new, better ideas.<\/p>\n<p>So I believe it&#8217;s a safe bet that Matt Entenza&#8217;s education plan will be &#8220;bold&#8221; only in the brazenness of its support for the status quo and demands that we peasants fall in line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Entenza, running a weak third in the DFL primary race,\u00a0promised to release a &#8220;bold&#8221; &#8220;education&#8221; &#8220;plan&#8221;: DFL gubernatorial candidate Matt Entenza Thursday will release a &#8220;a bold education plan,&#8221; his campaign said Wednesday. He&#8217;ll talk about the plan on campaign stops in Duluth, St. Paul and Rochester. Entenza, who is vying in a DFL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452","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=11452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11458,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11452\/revisions\/11458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}