{"id":85789,"date":"2023-08-23T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85789"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:31:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T19:31:11","slug":"dfliars-flimmed-and-flammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85789","title":{"rendered":"DFLiars:  Flimmed And Flammed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wait just a doggone minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I read this earlier today:<\/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\">It&#39;s deja vu all over again &#8212; staffing shortages in schools across Minnesota just weeks, or days, before classes begin. What will help? Better pay, more time and freedom to teach, and equitable pensions to start. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mnleg?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#mnleg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EMS5Z3YBTx\">https:\/\/t.co\/EMS5Z3YBTx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Education Minnesota (@EducationMN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EducationMN\/status\/1694104911607169326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, wasn&#8217;t it just 2-3 months ago that Ken Martin, Governor Klink and Co-Governor Flanigan, the  brodudes in the MNDFL Communications office and the chattering hamsters of the DFL Legislative caucuses telling us they&#8217;d &#8220;fully funded&#8221; education?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why yes..  It was:<\/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=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4SrDR359AU\">pic.twitter.com\/4SrDR359AU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sean Nienow (@SNienow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SNienow\/status\/1694357155753636105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet they never actually defining what &#8220;full funding&#8221; meant&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;oh.  Yeah.  Now it makes sense. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait just a doggone minute. I read this earlier today: Now, wasn&#8217;t it just 2-3 months ago that Ken Martin, Governor Klink and Co-Governor Flanigan, the brodudes in the MNDFL Communications office and the chattering hamsters of the DFL Legislative caucuses telling us they&#8217;d &#8220;fully funded&#8221; education? Why yes.. It was: And yet they never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,10,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-education","category-education","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85789","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=85789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85819,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85789\/revisions\/85819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}