{"id":5362,"date":"2012-01-20T06:23:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5362"},"modified":"2012-01-20T06:57:59","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:57:59","slug":"5362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5362","title":{"rendered":"Lean on Tony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn3.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQrk_647YeeLPcRo06zi5emnud4o3-LLAHm2IbY4CJxAME_jJAb\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Too bad Tony couldn&#8217;t get his own Governor Walker, Tom Emmer, elected so that Tom could outrage a quarter of the state and then go around the nation collecting big money from Right to Work fanatics to save himself from a recall. <\/p>\n<p>Sutton just <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2012\/01\/19\/minnesota-republican-party-finances\/\">gave all his good buds<\/a> money the Minnesota GOP didn&#8217;t have. <\/p>\n<p>Evidently small donors and Governor Pawlenty who ended the political contribution refund are to blame for Tony&#8217;s problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSutton said the party&#8217;s problems were a result of poor fundraising from donors who gave in small amounts. He said the elimination of the state&#8217;s Political Contribution Refund was a drain on the party&#8217;s coffers. That state program, which was eliminated in 2009, allowed donors to claim a tax refund of $50 when they contributed to political parties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BTW. I chose the word of the day before reading this story.<\/p>\n<p>PS. I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeclarkspeaker.com\/biography.htm\">Joe Clark<\/a> photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad Tony couldn&#8217;t get his own Governor Walker, Tom Emmer, elected so that Tom could outrage a quarter of the state and then&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gods-own-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362","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=5362"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5367,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5362\/revisions\/5367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}