{"id":8987,"date":"2010-10-28T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/10\/28\/the-minnesota-third-congressio\/"},"modified":"2010-10-28T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T12:12:09","slug":"the-minnesota-third-congressio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/28\/the-minnesota-third-congressio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Third Congressional District: Vote for Jim Meffert"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am represented in the US House of Representatives by Erik Paulsen. I’ve not heard much from Erik since his election two years ago because he doesn’t tell us much. But I don’t need to hear from him, really, because he is, for all intents and purposes, a clone of Michele Bachmann, the nutbag who represents the yahoos of the district<\/a> next to mine. As I’ve previously blogged (and I’m reposting this later today) Erik Paulsen votes in lockstep with Michele Bachmann, differing only in trivial ways. So, if I want to know how the guy who represents me in the House is doing, and what he is up to, I just check the news, which tends to cover Bachmann pretty throughly because she is such a freak of nature, and see what she’s doing. And Erik will be there sniffing her butt and doing whatever she tells him to.<\/p>\n

Not that I disdain the guy or anything. But officially, this blog endorses the DFL Candidate Jim Meffert for the Third.<\/p>\n

And, I quickly add, I do not endorse Jim because he is not Paulsen. When he started his campaign, I contacted his staff and intensively grilled them regarding Meffert’s position on each issue. He and I are pretty much in agreement on everything, and I will be very happy to be represented by him in Washington. Meffert will make an excellent Congressperson.<\/p>\n

The race is close, according to certain polls. If you’d like to help a guy out, click here and send Meffert ten bucks or so. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am represented in the US House of Representatives by Erik Paulsen. I’ve not heard much from Erik since his election two years ago because he doesn’t tell us much. But I don’t need to hear from him, really, because he is, for all intents and purposes, a clone of Michele Bachmann, the nutbag who … Continue reading The Minnesota Third Congressional District: Vote for Jim Meffert<\/span> →<\/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":[4588],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2kX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987"}],"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=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}