{"id":88851,"date":"2024-12-06T07:06:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88851"},"modified":"2024-12-06T07:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:06:42","slug":"friends-in-high-places-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88851","title":{"rendered":"Friends In High Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The big that confuses me so much about this story<\/a> – the DFL jamming down a $10K appropriation<\/a> to help one of their colleagues settle an issue with her “day job” outside politics – isn’t that the DFL is basically pickpocketing taxpayers to help one of their own with a private matter<\/em>. (Emphasis added):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This all started when Rep. Bianca Virnig of Eagan was elected to the House as a Democrat in a special election and sworn in last January serving a district in the Eagan-Mendota Heights area. Her new position as a state lawmaker created a conflict with her employer, Brightworks, a non-profit established by the Minnesota Legislature in 1976 to provide services to public schools and school districts<\/strong>, according to its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen she returned to her employment her employer dramatically cut back her hours and her pay based on her new job she held as a part-time state legislator,\u201d Rep. Jamie Long, DFL Majority Leader, said at a House Rules Committee meeting Tuesday. \u201cSince this was related to her work as a Minnesota representative we are proposing we pay for those legal costs.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

No, after years of DFL corruption eating up hundreds of millions of dollars<\/em>, seeing something in five digits almost feels like watching “The Andy Griffith Show”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The part that fairy astounds me is that, after getting elected to the legislature, either Rep. Virnig or “Brightworks” had a problem with the arrangement.<\/p>\n

The DFL set up the non-profit\/industrial complex specifically to serve as a farm team and lobbyist ranch <\/em>for their regime.\u00a0 A potential politician starts working with one of the state’s maze of public unions, pseudo-parties or poiltical\/social non-profits, spends a few years making contacts and learning who buried the political bodies, and then run for office, already fully groomed as a DFL candidate – who goes on to do their mentor group’s bidding, and eventually to lobby for them and\/or groups like them when and if they leave office<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the corruption doesn’t confuse me. The fact that either Virnig or Brightworks had a problem with each other does. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The big that confuses me so much about this story – the DFL jamming down a $10K appropriation to help one of their colleagues settle an issue with her “day job” outside politics – isn’t that the DFL is basically pickpocketing taxpayers to help one of their own with a private matter. (Emphasis added): No, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,132,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851","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=88851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88852,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88851\/revisions\/88852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}