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<\/p>\nBuckle in.\u00a0 There’s gonna be flak:<\/p>\n
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It’s Steve Perry, formerly of the City Pages, Daily Mole <\/em>and The Minnesoros “Independent”.\u00a0 <\/em>These days, he’s working for Sarah Janecek’s essential Politics In Minnesota<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n And – mirabile dictu<\/em> – he’s discovered that, as a result of the DFL’s “listening tour”, people really are <\/em>happy to pay for a Last night I spent some time talking to a DFL House member who has attended some of the budgetary road shows (“listening sessions”) that legislators have been staging around the state in the past week-plus. There was an air of surprise about his words. “Look,” he said by way of preface, “the people attending these things are a self-selected group. It’s not scientific. But it really struck me that people get the fact we can’t do this”–fix the state’s $6 or $7 billion budget gap, that is–“with spending cuts alone. Revenue has to be up for discussion. Real people are saying that, not just organized interests or the official representatives of groups.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Was he saying the public is ahead of the politicians on this one?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m sure he was saying exactly <\/em>that.\u00a0<\/p>\n Or at least, the carefully<\/a>–stacked<\/a> selection of the public that the DFL is pimping out at these “listening tour” stops.<\/p>\n Danger!\u00a0 Flak!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Buckle in.\u00a0 There’s gonna be flak: It’s Steve Perry, formerly of the City Pages, Daily Mole and The Minnesoros “Independent”.\u00a0 These days, he’s working for Sarah Janecek’s essential Politics In Minnesota.\u00a0 And – mirabile dictu – he’s discovered that, as a result of the DFL’s “listening tour”, people really are happy to pay for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291","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=4291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Better Minnesota<\/strike> government that wants for nothing whatsoever<\/a>:<\/p>\n