{"id":10632,"date":"2012-02-01T17:20:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2012\/02\/01\/minnesotan-republicans-disrupt\/"},"modified":"2012-02-01T17:20:04","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T17:20:04","slug":"minnesotan-republicans-disrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/minnesotan-republicans-disrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesotan Republicans Disrupt Attempts to Save Civilization From Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Legislator Ellen Anderson is an energy expert, who authored seven energy related bills one of which became a national model, all of which were signed into law by a Republican Governor.  She was recently appointed by Governor Dayton to the Public Utilities Commission. Republicans, however, organized a vote against the apointment because her views on energy are too radical.<\/p>\n<p>What are her radical views? Well, she she thinks coal is dirty, for one thing.  She&#8217;d like to see more conservation and use of solar and wind.  That sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2012\/01\/31\/reality-check-ellen-andersons-extreme-views\/\">Here&#8217;s the story on our local news station. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who owns the Republican Party?  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Koch_family\">Who do you think &#8230;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Legislator Ellen Anderson is an energy expert, who authored seven energy related bills one of which became a national model, all of which were signed into law by a Republican Governor. She was recently appointed by Governor Dayton to the Public Utilities Commission. Republicans, however, organized a vote against the apointment because her views &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/01\/minnesotan-republicans-disrupt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Minnesotan Republicans Disrupt Attempts to Save Civilization From Itself<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Lu","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}