{"id":34224,"date":"2013-02-12T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34224"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T19:39:56","slug":"dfl-legislators-remote-control-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34224","title":{"rendered":"DFL Legislators: Remote Control Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strib\u00a0<\/em>“Hot Dish” notes that Rep. Alice “The Phantom” Hausman is taking some flak<\/a> over her “bump and run” act last week; as we noted last week, Hausman introduced several gun grab bills, but didn’t stick around<\/a> to hear the testimony:<\/p>\n

Hausman excused herself Wednesday morning after introducing the assault weapons bill, saying she had another appointment, and did not attend Thursday’s session focusing on her bill to ban larger ammunition magazines.<\/p>\n

Hausman said she had other commitments as a committee chair and was told her bills would not be voted on. Rather, Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul, chairman of the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee, said ideas contained in many of the bills would be included in a larger, gun-violence measure that will be assembled and voted on later this month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, this brings up one surprise and two issues.<\/p>\n

The surprise: \u00a0Rachel Stassen-Berger is flirting with reporting something that might conceivably not advance the DFL’s interest. \u00a0I\u00a0thought\u00a0<\/em>I saw a flying pig along 394 this morning. \u00a0Kudos, Rachel!<\/p>\n

The first issue: \u00a0while Second Amendment supporters were piqued at Hausman for fleeing any questioning of her gun grab bills, the big problem was that\u00a0she turned that job over to a registered lobbyist. \u00a0<\/em>If a Republican – any Republican – did this on any issue, the assembled media elite, the Schecks and Cronans and Stassen-Bergers that prowl the Capitol, would be asking some\u00a0very\u00a0<\/em>probing questions.<\/p>\n

The other issue? \u00a0I’ll add emphasis:<\/p>\n

That meant that Hausman, who is not on the public safety committee, was “not a decision-maker,” she said, and was presenting bills that were put together by Protect Minnesota<\/strong>. She said she meant no disrespect to the testifiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remember last year, when Alida Messinger’s “Alliance For A Better Minnesota” paid for a chanting campaign against the “American Legislative Exchange Committee” (ALEC) for submitting model legislation for legislators’ consideration? \u00a0Why, you’d have thought democracy itself was at risk.<\/p>\n

But there it is in plain black and white; the DFL majority is cribbing legislation from an extremist gun-grabber group that has among the worst records for truthfulness and veracity anywhere in politics<\/a>\u00a0– only the Ku Klux Klan and the “Joe Isuzu PAC” do worse – and,\u00a0apparently (judging by the petulance and illiteracy of the DFL’s responses<\/a> to the testimony against their gun grabs) without having read them themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Strib\u00a0“Hot Dish” notes that Rep. Alice “The Phantom” Hausman is taking some flak over her “bump and run” act last week; as we noted last week, Hausman introduced several gun grab bills, but didn’t stick around to hear the testimony: Hausman excused herself Wednesday morning after introducing the assault weapons bill, saying she had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-34224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament","tag-abm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34224"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47900,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34224\/revisions\/47900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}