{"id":1225,"date":"2008-05-12T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T03:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1225"},"modified":"2008-05-12T23:01:35","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T04:01:35","slug":"jaros-bill-held-in-pawlentys-grip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=1225","title":{"rendered":"Jaros Bill held in Pawlenty&#8217;s grip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the Jaros bill in its latest incarnation passes depends on whether Governor Pawlenty will make good on <a href=\"http:\/\/wcco.com\/topstories\/Minnesota.Legislature.Gov.2.367612.html\">his threat to veto it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vetoing the bill strikes me as a brilliant thing to give him credibility with the Republican Party at a time when Senator McCain is casting about for a VP.  I was told today that the NY Times lists Pawlenty as the number one pick for McCain. That flies in the face of pundits who are looking for a number two who could bring votes to McCain. Minnesota is small potatoes but Minnesota is the sight of the GOP national convention and is likely to showcase Pawlenty.<\/p>\n<p> I think it would be a smart move because McCain is likely to lose anyway and this would be a way to introduce a bright up and commer to the Party. Pawlenty isn&#8217;t up for election so he wouldn&#8217;t face defeat if McCain loses. And at the GOP convention his veto of the bill which includes a potential $39 million in Minnesota Aid to the GOP Convention would be treated as a heroic anti-tax gesture by Republicans who will need all the cash they can get their hands on.<\/p>\n<p>So, The tax bill is probably toast unless the Tax conference committee can submit a new one quickly which won&#8217;t face a veto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether the Jaros bill in its latest incarnation passes depends on whether Governor Pawlenty will make good on his threat to veto it. Vetoing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}