{"id":845,"date":"2006-10-26T15:26:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T20:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2006-12-21T10:47:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T15:47:25","slug":"oberstar-you-tubed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Oberstar You Tubed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP apartchik, Michael Brodkorb,\u00c2\u00a0was quick to send <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ya48xkF29ys\">the embarrassing video<\/a> of Jim Oberstar huffing and puffing at Rod Grams to <em><strong>You Tube<\/strong><\/em>. Its not surprising that Jim has avoided debates so assiduously through the years if this is the best he can do.<\/p>\n<p>What provoked this attack was Rod&#8217;s assertion that Jim lives in Maryland rather than Minnesota. Of course, this is true and has been so for forty years and more. Rod waved the titles to\u00c2\u00a0Jim&#8217;s Maryland home around and Oberstar had a hissy fit. Rod called the house &#8220;Jim&#8217;s million dollar mansion&#8221; which leaves me to wonder if Rod knows anything about housing costs on the East coast. My modest home in Duluth is a quarter that according to our property valuations and we bought it 19 years ago for a fraction of its current value.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Among the other big issues Rod keep raising are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim&#8217;s repeated trips to France. Big Deal.<\/p>\n<p>Jim&#8217;s rare returns to the Eighth District. Demonstrably false.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Among the issues Rod doesn&#8217;t raise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim&#8217;s wife&#8217;s lobbying Jim while he was the top Democrat on the\u00c2\u00a0 House Aviation Committee. Maybe because Rod became a lobbyist\u00c2\u00a0himself after he lost his Senate seat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Jim&#8217;s close cooperation with Tom Delay and Denny Hastert on issues appealing to socially conservative voters like Terri&#8217;s Law. Perhaps because Rod is just as conservative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP apartchik, Michael Brodkorb,\u00c2\u00a0was quick to send the embarrassing video of Jim Oberstar huffing and puffing at Rod Grams to You Tube. Its not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,56,47,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}