Nationally? \u00a0It was a long night last night – but one that proves only one thing; conservatives face a well-funded, entrenched enemy that can count on unions to turn all the money they need to run a defensive campaign, along with a media that is\u00a0utterly\u00a0in the bag for the left.<\/p>\n
In Minnesota? The results of the Bloomington mayor and Saint Paul School Board races were disappointing – especially the SPPS race. \u00a0The Saint Paul Public Schools are a lost cause. \u00a0My kids have aged out of that sinking ship, which is the important part; unfortunately, my property has not.<\/p>\n
Statewide, though? \u00a0Voters generally approved continuing existing levies, but (again, generally) rejected new taxes. \u00a0The voters apparently got the message – the Governor and the Legislature passed hundreds of millions in new K12 spending. \u00a0We’re already spending more.<\/p>\n
Mostly, yesterday should be a wakeup call for conservatives. \u00a0Most Republican activists do it part-time, out of zeal and\u00a0commitment\u00a0one issue or another. \u00a0And for us, life gets in the way – kids, obligations, careers, even burnout cause the turnout to ebb and flow. \u00a0The Democrats and their supporters have people – organizers, demonstrators, researchers, even bloggers – who do all of these things full-time, for a living.<\/p>\n
It’s going to be a busy year. \u00a0There’s no way around it; the next <\/em>election is going to be for all the marbles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nationally? \u00a0It was a long night last night – but one that proves only one thing; conservatives face a well-funded, entrenched enemy that can count on unions to turn all the money they need to run a defensive campaign, along with a media that is\u00a0utterly\u00a0in the bag for the left. In Minnesota? The results of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303","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=24303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24308,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24303\/revisions\/24308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}