{"id":22130,"date":"2017-06-04T09:19:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22130"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:23:02","slug":"i-got-waxed-continued-the-dnt-dfl-editorial-slam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22130","title":{"rendered":"I got waxed continued &#8211; the DNT > DFL editorial slam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Claudia got home from a wedding shower and I joked how I&#8217;d been waxed she asked if I&#8217;d read the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/opinion\/our-view\/4277365-our-view-keep-parties-out-nonpartisan-races\"> DNT editorial<\/a> lambasting the DFL for endorsing candidates for &#8220;non partisan&#8221; offices. I hadn&#8217;t. Just read it. I disagree although I am sympathetic with the editorial <em>and that&#8217;s not because I only got about 10 percent of the delegates vote<\/em>. But &#8211; I have to get ready for church. I have a long summer to upend the DFL endorsees running for the School Board. Its not because they are bad people. Its because they now represent a kind of insular &#8220;group think&#8221; that is out of step with the people I talk to throughout Duluth on the issue of public education. <\/p>\n<p>Mercifully, now that I am not endorsed I no longer have to abide by my promise <strong>not <\/strong>to speak ill of the short comings of the DFL endorsees.  Maybe that&#8217;s the &#8220;ugly&#8221; campaign the Superintendent warned one of the non endorsed candidates about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Claudia got home from a wedding shower and I joked how I&#8217;d been waxed she asked if I&#8217;d read the DNT editorial lambasting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-sch-b-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=22130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22133,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22130\/revisions\/22133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}