{"id":191944,"date":"2009-06-03T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/03\/minnesota-gov-pawelenty-not-to-run-for-3rd-term\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T22:41:00","slug":"minnesota-gov-pawelenty-not-to-run-for-3rd-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/03\/minnesota-gov-pawelenty-not-to-run-for-3rd-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Gov Pawelenty Not to Run for 3rd Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on here is that this will be a bad cycle for incumbent governors, with tough budget choices to make, and so he gives that a miss by doing this, and can focus on a run for President.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/03\/us\/politics\/03pawlenty.html?_r=2&amp;ref=politics\">minimizes the political damage of his refusal to certify Al Franken&#8217;s election as Senator<\/a>, which he will do in order to shore up his support with the base.<\/p>\n<p>He has made a statement, but note the weasel here, &#8220;If the court directs me to sign that certificate, I will.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The translation here is that if the court does not explicitly order him, he won&#8217;t sign until Coleman goes all the way up the chain to the Supreme Court, but if it does, he has no choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on here is that this will be a bad cycle for incumbent governors, with tough budget choices to make, and so he gives that a miss by doing this, and can focus on a run for President. Additionally, it minimizes the political damage of his refusal to certify Al Franken&#8217;s election as Senator, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}