Shot in the Dark

Tag: Heather Martens

  • The Many Lies of “Protect”MN, Part XX: Alinsky RSVPed

    A little bird forwarded me this email from “Protect”MN to its mailing list.  I’ll add emphasis: You are Invited! What: A house party fundraiser with Protect Minnesota When: Monday, November 25, 5:30-7 p.m. Where: [Redacted] Fremont Ave., Minneapolis [And no, it’s not North Fremont.  Or north of 38th Street South.  If you catch my drift…

  • The Many Lies Of “Protect”MN, Part XIX

    I was going to title the piece “Rep. Heather Martens:  Her Lips Are Moving” – but now that Protect MN has hired Richard Carlbom, the PR father of gay marriage in Minnesota, I have to upgrade my approach. Because while Representative Martens has never made a substantive true claim in all her years of working…

  • MinnPost: Heather Martens’ PR Firm

    The MInnPost is an organization I’d very much like to respect. It includes a raft of people I’ve considered good reporters. But over the course of Minnesota’s gun debate over this past session – brought on by Minnesota DFL legislators launching a raft of authoritarian gun bills, including at least one that called for confiscation…

  • Baghdad Heather

    It’s been my contention for quite some time that Heather Martens – “Executive Director” and likely sole steady member of “Protect Minnesota”, and unelected Representative from House District 66A – has never, not once in her entire career as an anti-civil-rights pundit, made a single original statement that was substantially true. Martens’ weekend press release…

  • The DFL/Media/Anti-Gun Hot Tub Party

    When you’re a conservative, distrust of the media – like most large institutions – is part and parcel of the job. You probably accept that, for whatever reason – from systemic bias to cultural confirmation bias to being paid off by George Soros – that the media has a comprehensive bias toward the left. And…

  • Doug Grow, Narrative-Fluffer

    I was down at the State Capitol yesterday for a press conference, as Representative Deb Hilstrom (DFL Brooklyn Park) introduced the gun bill/s we talked about yesterday. The bills, as we noted yesterday, would exert the state to solve actual problems – close gaps in the background check system, add mandatory penalties for using guns…

  • How Can You Tell Heather Martens Is Lying?

    Her lips are moving. More below. ———- The Strib’s longtime outdoor writer Dennis Anderson wrote an excellent profile of state representative Tony Cornish over the weekend.  Cornish, with the departure of Pat Pariseau and Linda Boudreaux from the Legislature, has taken on the role of key defender of the Second Amendment in the Legislature: In St. Paul,…

  • The New Representative From 66A, Heather Martens!

    Aren’t the Democrats the ones who complain that their opposition is in the back pocket of lobbyists? We’ll come back to that. We’ll also come back to this:  until redistricting last February, I spent close to two decades in the old House District 66B, which was represented by long-time DFLer and teachers union mouthpiece Alice…

  • The Strib’s News, Six Weeks Faster, Part II: Heather Martens Is Lying

    As we noted on Tuesday, the Strib’s coverage of the fact that over 100,000 Minnesotans have carry permits (six weeks later than it was covered in this space) had good news and bad news. The good news?  Larry Oakes, the Strib reporter, did a decent job of finding some sources on the pro-gun side.  Like…

  • Shot In The Dark: The Strib’s News, Six Weeks Faster

    Via Power Line, I see that the Strib has noted the fact that 100,000 (currently 103,000) Minnesotans have carry permits… …which was first reported in this space on May 31; well over 1z00,000 Minnesotans currently have active carry permits. The Strib is finally on the story – and there’s good news, and there’s bad news.…

  • Open Letter To Channel Nine News

    To: News Department, KMSP-TV (“Fox Nine”) From: Mitch Berg, very occasional viewer Re:  A Warning To whom it may concern, I don’t watch a lot of TV news – but for whatever reason, I do wind up watching your morning news; it does carry a fair amount of local news, and yeah, I like Marler’s weather.…

  • Crimes And Misdemeanors Against Fact

    Yesterday, I tackled a Strib op-ed by Jim Backstrom.  Backstrom, the Dakota County Attorney, wrote the latest in a long string of fact-challenged diatribes against the rights of the rigorously-law-abiding gun owner. Now, Backstrom – who is not just an elected public official, but one in charge of enforcing the law by prosecuting accused criminals…

  • Heather Martens: Fifteen Lies

    I try to be civil.  I really do. But it needs to be said; Heather Martens is a liar. Maybe not in every single area of her life.  She may well be perfectly good, ethical human being in some areas of her life.  I don’t know. But it is an unassailable fact that virtually everything…

  • Chanting Points Memo: “The GOP Is Legalizing Murder!”

    It’s perhaps a sign that Minnesota is becoming at least incrementally less “blue” over time, that Rep. Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill is, er, drawing fire only from the most  extremes of the Twin Cities left. But being the Twin Cities, the extremes get disproportionate coverage from the regional media. And so as HR1467…

  • Feeding Frenzy Time

    Heather Martens – formerly of “Citizens for A “Safer” Supine Minnesota”, now with some other astroturf group that is, most likely, a re-branding of CSM, wrote a “Commentary” on Minnesota Public Radio today in re Rep. Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill (HF 1467). Here’s the “Commentary“. Here’s the bill. I’ll have a piece out on…

  • This One’s For Heather Martens and Wes Skoglund

    Just to set the stage for the Supreme Court’s Heller decision, which should be coming out in the next couple of weeks. Check this out: Wow. Lookit all those guns – most of them fully-automatic weapons. And that ain’t the half of ’em. Here’s the other half: Not just fully-automatic weapons by the dozen! Not…

  • Tragedy, Yes. A Challenge, No.

    Charlie Quimby may be the Twin Cities’ generally least-insane leftyblogger, but it doesn’t mean he’s not prone to some wishful thinking: After all, Minneapolis has a ripe current case that provides a provocative example of the ambiguities surrounding self-defense claims. Now, Charlie’s been debating the proposed changes in Minnesota’s self-defense laws wtih Joel Rosenberg for…

  • Why Should A Right Not Be A Right?

    The course of the Minnesota Monitor has been an interesting one. The MNMon is, and has always been, a bald-faced propaganda site, funded by “liberals with deep pockets” – after a year of official denials and stalling huffing and puffing, Eric Black admitted that there was some George Soros money in the mix. When they…

  • Why Is Dakota County Attorney Jim Backstrom Lying?

    There are people you expect to lie through their teeth about Second Amendment issues. Heather Martens, the president-for-life of Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota?  You know she’s lying about Second Amendment issues when her lips are moving.  It’s her job.  No surprises there. Wes Skoglund – the former Rep from South Minneapolis who famously claimed…

  • The Wages of Staying Home

    All of you Republicans who sat out the 2006 election because Mark Kennedy voted for Ethanol subsidies,or Norm Coleman voted for ANWAR, or Tim Pawlenty called a “tax” a “fee”? Bad things happen. Big, bad things like the Mass Transit Subsidy “Transportation” bill, of course – and slightly smaller things, like the DFL’s universal gun…