{"id":24171,"date":"2017-06-03T15:34:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T20:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24171"},"modified":"2018-02-01T19:06:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T01:06:39","slug":"standing-up-to-the-politics-of-greed-rebecca-otto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/03\/standing-up-to-the-politics-of-greed-rebecca-otto\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Up To The Politics Of Greed: Rebecca Otto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The amazing Betty Folliard, former school board member, Minnesota house representative, and the woman behind a number of important political campaign, has a radio show on AM950 The Progressive Voice of Minnesota (where I occassionally voice as well, but on a different show) called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/am950-show-podcasts\/a-womans-place-may-27-2017\">A Woman&#8217;s Place<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Today, Betty interviewed Minnesota State Auditor Rebecca Otto, who is running for Governor of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the interview:<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/325200497&#8243; params=&#8221;color=ff5500&#8243; width=&#8221;100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca explains why she is running, and gives us a run down of her background, including the time she took over Michele Bachmann&#8217;s old senate district.<\/p>\n<p>I support Rebecca for governor.  I know her because she is married to my friend, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1571313532\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1571313532&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=094e77ee96f1b60bdf8b71bbc82bc273\">Shawn Otto<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1571313532\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, who is well known to all the readers of this blog.  This is all connected in an interesting way, which I will write about some time (I don&#8217;t think Rebecca or Shawn are aware of that connection, now that I think about it).<\/p>\n<p>So, listen to the podcast, and <a href=\"https:\/\/rebeccaotto.com\/rebecca-otto-appears-on-am950.html\">GIVE HER SOME MONEY HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amazing Betty Folliard, former school board member, Minnesota house representative, and the woman behind a number of important political campaign, has a radio show on AM950 The Progressive Voice of Minnesota (where I occassionally voice as well, but on a different show) called &#8220;A Woman&#8217;s Place.&#8221; Today, Betty interviewed Minnesota State Auditor Rebecca Otto, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/03\/standing-up-to-the-politics-of-greed-rebecca-otto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Standing Up To The Politics Of Greed: Rebecca Otto<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5026],"tags":[977],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6hR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24171"}],"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=24171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28815,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24171\/revisions\/28815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}