{"id":1338,"date":"2006-09-13T20:38:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2006-09-13T20:38:58","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T20:38:58","slug":"home_stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Home Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/587\/story\/673216.html\">AG race<\/a>, there weren&#8217;t any real surprises in yesterday&#8217;s state primary races.&nbsp; Congratulations to <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2006\/09\/12\/5distrace\/\">Keith Ellison for beating out the other DFL contenders<\/a> for the 5th District Congressional seat.&nbsp; The smear attacks directed against him didn&#8217;t do any significant damage and he ran a strong, effective grassroots campaign.&nbsp; I&#8217;m proud to count myself among his financial contributors.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#8217;m also hopeful that Ellison&#8217;s name on the ballot will increase voter turnout in the general election, which will be critical in our efforts to defeat Pawlenty.<\/p>\n<p>As for the DFL candidates for Attorney General, I was disappointed that Steve Kelley came out on the losing end.&nbsp; The guy just can&#8217;t get a break this year.&nbsp; But I have no doubt that Lori Swanson will make a fine advocate for the people of Minnesota.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Game on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from the AG race, there weren&#8217;t any real surprises in yesterday&#8217;s state primary races.&nbsp; Congratulations to Keith Ellison for beating out the other DFL contenders for the 5th District Congressional seat.&nbsp; The smear attacks directed against him didn&#8217;t do any significant damage and he ran a strong, effective grassroots campaign.&nbsp; I&#8217;m proud to count <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1338' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-lA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}