{"id":1856,"date":"2008-02-25T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2008-02-25T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T20:39:10","slug":"getting_things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1856","title":{"rendered":"Getting Things Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Legislature demonstrated uncommon good sense and overrode Governor Pawlenty’s veto of a comprehensive and long-overdue transportation bill<\/a>. Overrides of gubernatorial vetoes are a rare thing and the six House Republicans who voted with the majority deserve special recognition. Their collective act of political courage has put Minnesota on the path to a more sustainable and prosperous future. The state’s roads and bridges will now receive the attention they so badly need and the metro area could finally get a modern public transit system. <\/p>\n

Minnesota has long had a reputation as a state that understood the need to invest in public services to maintain a high quality of life. Over the last few years, our political leadership succumbed to the influence of anti-tax forces that showed nothing but contempt for the kind of public stewardship that has served Minnesota so well over the last several decades. It’s too soon to tell, but I like to think that this veto override serves as a rebuke to those who value having a few more dollars in their pockets rather than any kind of vision for the future. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Legislature demonstrated uncommon good sense and overrode Governor Pawlenty’s veto of a comprehensive and long-overdue transportation bill. Overrides of gubernatorial vetoes are a rare thing and the six House Republicans who voted with the majority deserve special recognition. Their collective act of political courage has put Minnesota on the path to a more […]<\/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-1856","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-tW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","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=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}