{"id":88952,"date":"2024-12-30T05:37:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88952"},"modified":"2024-12-30T06:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T12:39:07","slug":"business-before-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88952","title":{"rendered":"Business Before Pleasure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2024\/12\/28\/former-minnesota-senate-majority-leader-kari-dziedzic-dies-following-cancer-battle\">passed away last Friday<\/a> after a protracted battle with cancer.&nbsp; She was 62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cSenator Kari Dziedzic was a passionate legislator, a respected leader, and a trusted colleague and friend. She will be remembered for her integrity and her compassion for Minnesotans, something that we all saw as she continued to serve even as she battled cancer,\u201d said Senate Minority Leader Mark Johnson, an East Grand Forks Republican. \u201cI\u2019m deeply saddened at her passing and am praying for her family and friends as we all mourn this loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>She was the daughter of former City Councilmember Walt Dziedzic, who may have been the last genuine union moderate in Minneapolis politics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prayers and condolences to the Senator&#8217;s family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her passing, along with other recent events, put the DFL in a bit of a bind &#8211; but I won&#8217;t pollute an obit with that.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Kari Dziedzic passed away last Friday after a protracted battle with cancer.&nbsp; She was 62. \u201cSenator Kari Dziedzic was a passionate legislator, a respected leader, and a trusted colleague and friend. She will be remembered for her integrity and her compassion for Minnesotans, something that we all saw as she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88952","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=88952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88962,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88952\/revisions\/88962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}