{"id":3749,"date":"2011-07-01T05:57:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-01T10:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2011-07-01T05:59:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-01T10:59:08","slug":"mischaracterizing-the-republican-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"Mischaracterizing the Republican side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I heard the &#8220;breaking news&#8221; on WDIO last night explaining that the shutdown was upon us. We both scoffed at the early explanation of the GOP offer to Governor Dayton. I just found <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/shutdown\/archive\/2011\/06\/dayton-shutdown-will-begin-on-fourth-of-july-weekend.shtml\">this<\/a> post on an MPR blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said he had offered some additional spending cuts and then proposed higher taxes only on the roughly 7,700 Minnesotans earning more than $1 million a year.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans, he said, rejected the idea and instead offered a $1 billion revenue raising option that consisted of delaying $700 million in payments to schools and borrowing against funds from the state&#8217;s tobacco companies settlement. He turned those aside arguing they did not really raise revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans countered Dayton had mischaracterized the offer and posted and tweeted a picture of the offer document\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I read the document and it sounded just like the Governor described it. I presume the GOP was angry that Dayton didn&#8217;t describe the halo which is evident when one reads their proposal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/shutdown\/assets_c\/2011\/06\/gop%20offer-thumb-250x334.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/collections\/special\/columns\/shutdown\/content_images\/gop%20offer.jpg\">this<\/a> to see it blown up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I heard the &#8220;breaking news&#8221; on WDIO last night explaining that the shutdown was upon us. We both scoffed at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,21,14,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749"}],"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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}