{"id":85671,"date":"2023-08-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85671"},"modified":"2023-08-10T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T15:51:44","slug":"85671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85671","title":{"rendered":"Ill Advised"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:  Rep. Nathan Coulter (DFL 51B)<br>From:  Mitch Berg, Obstreporous peasant and human ATM <br>Re:  Congrats<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Coulter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was a little amazed to see that you are in fact a state representative.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the optics of a tweet like this are a little&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, bad:<\/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\">If you haven\u2019t already filed for your MN property tax refund, do it! Our tax bill this year will mean bigger refunds for folks, so it\u2019s definitely worth doing.<br><br>I just filed for mine, and my eyes spun around and turned into dollar signs as \u201cWe\u2019re in the Money\u201d played. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Nathan Coulter (@NathanCoulter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NathanCoulter\/status\/1688617361492840448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Rep. Coulter:  speaking as a middle-class empty nester who is getting <em>not a f***ing penny <\/em>from this  so-called refund (let&#8217;s call it what it is &#8211; targeted vote buying), the idea that tax money is being &#8220;Refunded&#8221; to the needy &#8211; like, say, a State Representative from the mean streets of Eagan &#8211; maybe you might wanna stop your eyes spinning long enough to remember where the money came from.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re welcome, (REDACTED). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all,. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Rep. Nathan Coulter (DFL 51B)From: Mitch Berg, Obstreporous peasant and human ATM Re: Congrats Rep. Coulter I was a little amazed to see that you are in fact a state representative. Because the optics of a tweet like this are a little&#8230; &#8230;well, bad: Rep. Coulter: speaking as a middle-class empty nester who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mndfl","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85671","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=85671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85674,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85671\/revisions\/85674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}