{"id":26003,"date":"2009-02-10T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T10:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/10\/republicans-if-only-we-could-h\/"},"modified":"2009-02-10T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T10:50:37","slug":"republicans-if-only-we-could-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/republicans-if-only-we-could-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans: &#8221; If only we could have kept the Democrats away, Colmeman would be Senator.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s not exactly what they are saying, but it is what they are <em>doing<\/em>.  Or at least trying to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To stamp out voter fraud, GOP legislators have offered a proposal that would make Minnesota&#8217;s voter-ID laws the most restrictive in the country. But according to their own party, no actual cases of voter fraud have been reported here. Still Reps. Tom Emmer, R-Delano, and Mary Kiffmeyer, R-Big Lake, have sponsored a bill requiring photo identification for every voter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/minnesotaindependent.com\/25971\/gop-no-voter-fraud-in-minnesota\"><br \/>\nRead it at the MN Indy.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: Ana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that&#8217;s not exactly what they are saying, but it is what they are doing. Or at least trying to do. To stamp out voter fraud, GOP legislators have offered a proposal that would make Minnesota&#8217;s voter-ID laws the most restrictive in the country. But according to their own party, no actual cases of voter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/10\/republicans-if-only-we-could-h\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Republicans: &#8221; If only we could have kept the Democrats away, Colmeman would be Senator.&#8221;<\/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":[],"tags":[33,306],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Lp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003"}],"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=26003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}