{"id":42152,"date":"2014-02-28T12:53:34","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T18:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42152"},"modified":"2014-02-28T13:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T19:02:36","slug":"the-bakk-mahal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42152","title":{"rendered":"The Bakk Mahal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL is trying to push through a new Senate office building, to house 44 Sentors and their staffs, for a price of around $90 Million.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That amounts to $2,045,454.55 per Senator.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two million and change, to house a <em>part-time employee<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For $2,045,454.55 <em>per part-time employee, <\/em>the state could afford:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winnebagoind.com\/products\/winnebago\/voyage\/index.php\">Winnebago Voyage <\/a>($150,000) for touring their district in style, <em>and <\/em>avoiding those pesky DUIs while in the Cities.<\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftcompare.com\/helicopter-airplane\/Beechcraft-Bonanza-G36\/85\">Beechcraft Bonanza <\/a>($690,000) capable of getting them to and from their district, anywhere in Minnesota, quickly and in modest style.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Office space in downtown Saint Paul &#8211; whose vacancy rate is around 20% even <em>with <\/em>massive numbers of state offices &#8211;\u00a0for bargain-basement prices.\u00a0 For the portion of the $2million left <em>after <\/em>buying the Winnebago and the airplane, each senator could rent 500 square feet of Saint Paul office space for 48 years (in the First Bank building, the one with the big red &#8220;1&#8221; on the roof), 114 years (in the Degree of Honor building, a nice building not far from the Capitol), or 212 years (in the Empire building, a classic turn of the century building way downtown).\u00a0 Or, alternately, rent 500 square feet of space for the year, <em>and <\/em>the Winnebago mobile office, <em>and <\/em>the Beechcraft, and leave a little over a million dollars left over that the state can&#8230;um, <em>not spend.\u00a0 <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Or, y&#8217;know, just rent some cheap space and give the rest of the money back to the taxpayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DFL is trying to push through a new Senate office building, to house 44 Sentors and their staffs, for a price of around $90 Million.\u00a0 That amounts to $2,045,454.55 per Senator.\u00a0 Two million and change, to house a part-time employee. For $2,045,454.55 per part-time employee, the state could afford: A Winnebago Voyage ($150,000) for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152","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=42152"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42160,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42152\/revisions\/42160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}