{"id":83160,"date":"2022-08-23T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83160"},"modified":"2022-08-23T09:32:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T14:32:04","slug":"as-long-as-were-on-the-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=83160","title":{"rendered":"As Long As We&#8217;re On The Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Governor Walz<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Irascible Peasant<br>Re: Priorities<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your Highness:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You wrote this on Twitter yesterday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Despite unprecedented challenges that our state has faced, we\u2019ve:<br> <br>\u2192 Passed the largest jobs bill in state history<br>\u2192 Made historic investments in education<br>\u2192 Strengthened our economy<br> <br>With your help, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peggyflanagan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PeggyFlanagan<\/a> and I can continue that work to move Minnesota forward.<\/p>&mdash; Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz\/status\/1561852893694656512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at this past four years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Crime wave, abetted by DFL policy<\/li><li>Riots, encouraged by your administratiion&#8217;s passive-aggressive bureaucratic gamesmanship with the National Guard<\/li><li>Collapse of respect for the rule of law, as a result of DFL policy<\/li><li>Educational outcomes for minorities, already terrible, collapsed<\/li><li>State divided between &#8220;essential&#8221; and &#8220;non-essential&#8221; workers &#8211; meaning dividing people<\/li><li>&#8220;Science&#8221; bastardized by your administration hiding the code for the &#8220;model&#8221; &#8220;predicting&#8221; tens of thousands of dead from Covid by July 2020, as a best case.  That&#8217;s how how science is done, <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>To the extent Minnesota is doing well, it&#8217;s in spite of you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope we&#8217;ve settled that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Governor WalzFrom: Mitch Berg, Irascible PeasantRe: Priorities Your Highness: You wrote this on Twitter yesterday: Let&#8217;s look at this past four years: Crime wave, abetted by DFL policy Riots, encouraged by your administratiion&#8217;s passive-aggressive bureaucratic gamesmanship with the National Guard Collapse of respect for the rule of law, as a result of DFL policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[427,144],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-83160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-22","category-governor","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83160","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=83160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83166,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83160\/revisions\/83166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}