Ebb Tide
By Mitch Berg
Jason Rarick won the special election in Senate District 11 last night, and did it with a pretty impressive margin in a district that was not only pretty much 50-50, but in which the GOP has never won the Senate seat.
With 100 percent of precincts in, state Rep. Jason Rarick wins the SD 11 race with 52 percent of the vote to Democrat Stu Lourey’s 46 percent. A flip for the Senate GOP #mnleg
— Briana Bierschbach (@bbierschbach) February 6, 2019
Perhaps it’s a sign that the DFL wave from last fall has dissipated in a welter of the overreach I predicated. The GOP now has a two-vote majority in the Senate.
An interesting sign: organized labor, at least private-sector labor, was working the district hard.
For Rarick.
Didn’t see that coming, I gotta admit.
And perhaps it’s a sign that MInnesota’s real 2nd Amendment groups, which backed Rarick, are actually starting to get their clout back, and see the truth about the (in my opinion) fraudulent, Iowa-based “Minnesota” Gun Rights, which denounced Rarick for no rational reason other than the simple fact that winning would gut their gravy train. Side note: If you donate to Minnesota Gun Rights, you are a sucker and I’ll tell you to your face; you would do less damage giving your money directly to Michael Bloomberg.
Congrats, Jason Rarick!
February 6th, 2019 at 9:13 am
A rare beam of Sunshine in an otherwise depressing atmosphere of dingy, institutional blue.
Excellent.
February 6th, 2019 at 10:13 am
Glad to see this. Really, it’s another one where the question “exactly which crimes would the proposed new gun controls prevent?” comes to mind.
BTW, I think our gracious host is forgetting someone’s birthday. Ahem. :^)
February 6th, 2019 at 11:53 am
D’oh. Two of ’em, actually.
February 6th, 2019 at 12:15 pm
When I heard this on the other radio show this morning, I almost jumped out of my skin.
And Mitch, you are correct about those morons at Minnesota Gun Rights. I wonder if there really is a “Ben Dorr” running it?
They were taking credit for organizing at the capitol a couple of weeks ago.
I’ve sent them unsubscribes twice and they still keep sending me junk emails.
February 6th, 2019 at 1:53 pm
I heard him interviewed on a podcast. He was a union electrician and then I believe he started his own electrician business. So that’s probably how he got the union support.
February 6th, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Ben Dorr… sounds like a slurred version of those kids (OK, OK, boys) jokes about silly names. You know like the author of “Under the Bleachers”?
And to go even further off-topic, what’s this Swiftee? Something bad about SC? https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/320953/