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By Mitch Berg
Michael Paymar is leaving the House:
State Rep. Michael Paymar announced Wednesday he will leave the Legislature after his current term expires.
The St. Paul Democrat is the chairman of the House Public Safety Committee; his district is considered safe Democratic territory.
No. New York under Boss Tweed was “safe Democrat territory”. Michael Paymar’s Highland Park, a part of Saint Paul that ponied up seven figures in donations for Kathleen Soliah’s defense fund, is a whole level beyond that. The DFL could endorse a bag of dog food and get 60% of the vote, and most of the voters would say the bag of dog food made perfectly good sense in the debates.
Paymar collided this year with his party’s leadership over whether to change Minnesota’s gun laws. His bill to expand background checks and restrict gun purchases stalled when House leaders declined to call a vote.
Well, no. It stalled when Paymar’s (and Hausman’s, and Rep. Martens’) copy-and-paste gun-grab bills served their purpose to the people who paid for their offices.
Best of luck, Representative Paymar.
November 21st, 2013 at 12:19 pm
A bag of dog food would be a reform candidate.
November 21st, 2013 at 12:26 pm
I’m still going to push for assault-gerbils like Paymer to be banned from the Capitol.
November 21st, 2013 at 11:45 pm
…Paymar’s (and Hausman’s, and Rep. Martens’) copy-and-paste gun-grab bills…
I seem to remember DG saying (FINALLY) that Tony Cornish’s stand your ground legislation was crap legislation because it was copy-and-pasted from ALEC.
Nice to know that Paymar tried to implement crap legislation as well, right, DG?
Or are you going to attempt a two-faced double standard lie about Paymar’s efforts?
Never mind, I already know the answer to that, you pathetic woman.
November 22nd, 2013 at 7:10 am
Oh, DG will never, ever answer that one.
Hausman’s magazine restriction bill was copied and pasted from New York’s new bill. Practically word for word.
Others among the raft of gun-grab bills the DFL tried to jam down last session were cribbed from California and Colorado.
I’d love to see some sign of intellectual honesty from any of the people who chant “ALEC provides model bills!”, because MANY groups provide model bills! The teachers union, the Brady Factory, both of the left-leaning analogues to ALEC, ALL of them!
I said “I’d love to…”, but doubt it’ll happen. Fact rarely dislodges chanting points for these people.