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Tag: Carpetbaggers

  • Carpetbaggers: The Big Time!

    I’ve been writing about the Dorr Brothers – the Iowa-based scammers behind “Minnesota Gun Rights”, among many other potemkin 2nd Amendment, pro-life and pro-Trump “groups” – for a long time. No – a very, very long time. And I’ve written a lot about them. No – I mean a lot. Including just about as much…

  • This Is Not The Rally You Want

    Over the weekend, there was a “gun right rally”. The rally was put on by a group called “Minnesota Gun Rights”.  We’ve addressed this group in the past – for being a scam that fleeces Minnesota gun owners, and is politically ineffective at best (and at worst, they do more harm than good).   Some legislators…

  • The Long Con

    Matt Windschitl called out “Iowa Gun Owners” as a scam from the floor of the Iowa state legislature.    We’ve met Windschitl in this space before; I’ve interviewed him on my show, Iowa Gun Owners is the Iowa “branch” of the “Minnesota Gun Rights”. – which is a misnomer, as MGR actually is headquartered in…

  • Iowa “Minnesota” Flim-Flammers

    We’ve written at some depth in the past about Minnesota Gun Rights – an astroturf fundraising group that raises a lot of money and generates a lot of strident social media about 2nd Amendment politics in Minnesota, but has never actually delivered any significant results.   A bipartisan selection of Minnesota’s most committed pro-human-rights legislators…

  • Drama

    I got this in the mail from Minnesota’s largest Iowa-based gun rights group: Dear Helmut,   SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. That’s the message supposedly “pro-Second Amendment” State House Leaders in St. Paul are sending to Second Amendment supporters all over Minnesota on Stand-Your-Ground. Now, I’m counting on you to remind them who they were…

  • Perfect Is The Enemy Of Good

    I need to get in shape.  The best way to do this is to win the Olympic Decathlon – because those people are in the best shape in the world.  I’ve decided that if I’m going to do anything about my physical fitness, it’ll be “win the Olympic Decathlon”. “But Mitch”, you may ask, “how…

  • Every Iowan A King – In Minnesota

    A few months back, we talked about a group – Minnesota Gun Rights (MGR) – which has been trying to make inroads into the Minnesota second amendment market.  MGR is run by Chris Dorr, brother of Aaron Dorr, who runs “Iowa Gun Owners” (IGO), and was closely involved in the Ted Sorenson scandal in Iowa.…

  • Carpetbaggers: Of Moo And Cow

    Last week, we looked at a troika of “gun rights” groups and their singular and plural records. Last Tuesday, we showed you a fundraising letter for a group called Minnesota Gun Rights (MGR) that Minnesota Second Amendment activists have been getting.  In the letter – from “Minnesota Gun Rights” executive director Chris Dorr – the sky will fall if the…

  • Carpetbaggers: Tomorrow

    I’ll be back with the wrapup of my “Carpetbaggers” series tomorrow.

  • Carpetbaggers: Not Of This World

    Tuesday, we showed you a fundraising letter for a group called Minnesota Gun Rights (MGR) that Minnesota Second Amendment activists have been getting. Wednesday, we got a perspective from Iowa on the effectivess of the Iowa Gun Owners (IGO), run by the brother of MGR’s Executive Director. Yesterday, we looked at the ties between the Dorr…

  • Carpetbaggers: In The Out Dorr

    On Tuesday, we showed you a fundraising appeal from a group, “Minnesota Gun Rights” (MGR).  MGR is making an entry into the Minnesota Second Amendment battle. Yesterday, we talked with an Iowa State Representative, Matt Windschitl, who pointed out that a group called the “Iowa Gun Owners” (IGO) had been talking big talk, but not…

  • Carpetbaggers: All Or Nothing, And Nothing

    Yesterday, we discussed a package that Minnesota gun rights activists have been receiving from a group calling itself “Minnesota Gun Rights”.  I ran a bit of video from Representative Matt Windschitl, running down a group called the “Iowa Gun Owners”. It was a pretty acerbic video. And it opened up some questions; what was the…

  • 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…