{"id":3705,"date":"2011-06-10T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T17:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3705"},"modified":"2011-06-10T12:45:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T17:45:41","slug":"meanwhile-someone-is-looking-at-the-state-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3705","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile someone is looking at the state GOP&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; with much clearer eyes than <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3704\">David Mamet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just caught Retired Governor Arne Carlson <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/radio\/programs\/midday\/\">on Minnesota Public Radio&#8217;s Midday<\/a>. (It will probably be rebroadcast tonight) He&#8217;s the last of the non dittoheads. He pointed the finger at the Chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party, Tony Sutton, who he blamed for causing the defeat of 4 out of 5 Republican legislators a while back because they had the audacity to raise spending on our crumbling transportation system. Tony is now in charge of a Tea Party blinded majority in both Minnesota legislative houses. Arne asked who the hell this Sutton is who runs the state legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Good question. I remember a silent, morose kid from the Iron Range who was the Party&#8217;s field man in the Eighth Congressional District. Its not much of a resume to be the man running a state.  As a man behind the scenes pulling all the strings he&#8217;s pretty much an unknown but he&#8217;s exercising more power than anyone other than the Governor. He&#8217;s to the Minnesota GOP what the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheka\">cheka<\/a> was to the Soviet Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; with much clearer eyes than David Mamet. I just caught Retired Governor Arne Carlson on Minnesota Public Radio&#8217;s Midday. (It will probably be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party","category-good-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705","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=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}