{"id":867,"date":"2006-10-31T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T04:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2006-12-21T09:30:51","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T14:30:51","slug":"grams-should-quit-say-the-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Grams should quit, say the unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight there was a silly bit of news about area labor unions which are calling on Rod Grams to quit the race for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Rod&#8217;s campaign has been drivel &#8211; complaints about trips to Paris and Jim&#8217;s home in Maryland. Rod&#8217;s recent story in the Trib about the poor farmers who were jailed for draining their swamp was patently absurd and slanted, but should he quit the race?<\/p>\n<p>The unions are upset that Rod is trying to make the claim that Jim Oberstar has been a job killer. So what? Its just over the top campaign rhetoric. The public won&#8217;t be impressed.<\/p>\n<p>I tried explaining while on Duluth Solutions today that economic development was more of a state matter than a fedral matter but my friend Mel has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magree.blogspot.com\/\">a much better take on a congressman&#8217;s limitations<\/a> than I managed. Neither Oberstar, Grams or Welty can be expected to bring jobs, jobs, jobs to the Eighth District&#8217;s economy.l<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight there was a silly bit of news about area labor unions which are calling on Rod Grams to quit the race for Congress&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,47,71,21,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867"}],"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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}