{"id":957,"date":"2009-07-01T05:09:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T05:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2009-07-01T05:09:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T05:09:20","slug":"minnesotaare_we_there_yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota&#8211;Are We There Yet??!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The election for Senator from Minnesota is finally over&#8211;Al Franken has been declared the winner.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2009\/06\/023933.php\">Power Line Blog<\/a>&nbsp;has a very good review of the events leading to this conclusion.&nbsp; One of the Power Line bloggers is a lawyer who lives in Minnesota and has followed the events closely.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict from Power Line is that the counting of the absentee ballots was not evenly done, but Al Franken did not steal the election.&nbsp; Evidently, part of what happens in Minnesota at every election is uneven counting of absentee ballots.<\/p>\n<p>This victory theoretically gives the Democrat party a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.&nbsp; Since historically the Democrat party has been better at voting in unison than the Republican party, this may be interesting.&nbsp; Keep in mind that because of some procedural moves made in the last month or so, a healthcare reform bill will only need 50 votes to pass in the Senate&#8211;not 60.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully Mr. Franken can rise to the level of conduct becoming a Senator&#8211;although I am not really sure exactly what that is right now!&nbsp;&nbsp; Anyway, congratulations, Minnesota, you have a new Senator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The election for Senator from Minnesota is finally over&#8211;Al Franken has been declared the winner.&nbsp; Power Line Blog&nbsp;has a very good review of the events leading to this conclusion.&nbsp; One of the Power Line bloggers is a lawyer who lives &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}