Tag: ProtectMN
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Pulling The Strings
Bill Glahn has been doing the work the Twin Cities media hasn’t won’t in covering the big, unseen unreported-on force in Minnesota politics: Take Action Minnesota. Even among people who know that TAM exists, I think few know exactly what they’re into, and how the organization works: Charity Status—whether legal or not, I object to…
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Carpetbaggers
There are a lot of Second Amendment groups. . Some – the NRA, the GOA, the Second Amendment Foundation – are big national groups that’ve been fighting the good fight for decades. Others are laser-focused on state-level Second Amendment issues. Others? ———- Gun control is a big issue these days. Oh, not with most of the…
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One Day At “Minnesotans United For All Social Progressive Causes”
(SCENE: at the offices of “Minnesotans United for All Social Progressive Causes”, a modest little 501c4 non-proft in the Griggs Building in Saint Paul, located on a hallway close by “Take Action Minnesota”, “ProtectMN” and a who’s who of other Minnesota social activism non-profits supported by liberals with deep pockets. Moonbeam BIRKENSTOCK and Avery LIBRELLE…
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Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative, Narrative…
…sorry. It’s getting so thick, I’m getting just a tad punchy. There’s an election coming up. And the Democrats are going to need to need all the racial tension they can generate. And their wholly-owned subsidiary at NPR is there to help them – in this case, in a story about Senate hearings on “Stand Your…
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Watching The Astroturf Grow: Money Changes Everything
In the past week or so, the news got out that “ProtectMN” – the astroturf group almost entirely funded by Joyce Foundation – is getting some big-name help. Richard Carlbom, the PR whiz behind the “Vote No” movement re the Marriage Amendment, has started his own consulting operation. And as all consulting operations do in…
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Watching The AstroTurf Grow: “The New Dialog – We Talk, You Shut Up”
This past Friday, I talked with Susie Jones, a reporter from WCCO Radio, about the Gun Grab Summit in North Minneapolis. Now, I’m stuck in a bit of a conundrum, myself. On the one hand, I do seek a civil, grown-up dialog. As a gun owner, I have a vested interest in making sure my…
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Watching The Astroturf Grow: BTW
In the previous piece about tomorrow’s “Gun Violence Prevention and Safe Communities summit “, I said “You’re invited”, sort of. It’s not actually true. A number of members of the Twin Cities’ human rights community responded to the invitation on Facebook – because the meeting invitation noted that “We all have to step up”, and…
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Watching The Astroturf Grow
The Twin Cities’ assembly of gun grabbers is having a meeting tomorrow. And you’re invited! Sort of. More on that in a bit. Anyway – if you’re out and about tomorrow (Friday) morning (and it always seems these anti-gunners are unemployed, work for non-profits or retired, and have ample weekdaytime to devote to attacking other…
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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…
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The “Meh” Gun Bill
I went to the Capitol last night for the House Public Safety Finance Committee hearings on Michael Paymar’s “HF 237”, better known as “The Bad Gun Bill”, a bill rife with nannystate abuse-fodder. The rest of the story? It’s got a lot of photos, and I don’t want the entire blog to load like a…
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A Small Victory
The “Million Mom March” – which, lately, draws fewer “moms” than pro-gun activists to its “events” – and “Citizens for a “Safer” Supine Minnesota, famous for never having once published a single fact in any of its press releases, and whose leader (and, let’s be honest, only member) Heather Martens has given this blog ten…
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Chanting Points Memo: With “Experts” Like This, Who Needs Enemas?
Long before the Trayvon Martin shooting started dominating the headlines, gun law reform was in the news in Minnesota, and had already spawned a smaller, more “Barney-Fife”-y version of the disinformation mill that has been sweeping the nation these past few weeks. I and the rest of the Minnesota Second Amendment community have been playing…
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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…