{"id":35273,"date":"2013-03-19T13:15:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T18:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35273"},"modified":"2013-10-30T12:21:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T17:21:40","slug":"the-incredible-floating-dfl-committee-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35273","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Floating DFL Committee Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the subject is the Second Amendment, the DFL has a long standing pattern of moving committee meetings around, largely to keep non-DFL constituencies from being able to drive in from Greater Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>And they&#8217;re doing it again.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Safety Committee hearing originally scheduled for this morning at 10AM has been pushed to 7 tonight. \u00a0Downside; people who made special arrangements to be there this morning &#8211; which most of us Second Amendment people have to do to get to these things &#8211; are screwed. \u00a0They&#8217;ll be doing whatever it takes to try to find some bilious rationalization to pass the stupid Paymar bill &#8211; supported only by Metrocrat extremists &#8211; and ignore the Hilstrom bill, supported by Real Americans on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Good news? \u00a0I&#8217;ll be there. \u00a0And so should you. \u00a0Here are the details: \u00a0the Real Americans are meeting starting at 5:00 p.m. outside the Room 10 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gis.leg.mn\/html\/directions.html\">State Office Building, just west-southwest of the Capitol<\/a>. If you can, wear a maroon shirt, or better yet, a GOCRA t-shirt if you have (or can score) one.<\/p>\n<p>And call the committee members. \u00a0This info is via GOCRA; they are&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Representative John Ward (DFL)<\/p>\n<p>651-296-4333<\/p>\n<p>E-mail:rep.john.ward@house.mn<\/p>\n<p>Thank Rep. Ward for his past support of your gun rights and encourage him to resist pressure from metro gun banners.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Representative Shannon Savick (DFL)<\/p>\n<p>651-296-8216<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: rep.shannon.savick@house.mn<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Savick is a rural DFLer who needs to be reminded that her constituents will not tolerate new gun control.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Representative Steve Simon (DFL)<\/p>\n<p>651-296-9889<\/p>\n<p>E-mail:rep.steve.simon@house.mn<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Simon is a smart, principled lawyer. Remind him that the Supreme Court has affirmed the right to keep and bear arms as an individual right, and that stripping due process doesn&#8217;t make us more free or more safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Representative Brian Johnson (R)<\/p>\n<p>651-296-4346<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: rep.brian.johnson@house.mn<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Johnson is new at the legislature this year, and will be under a lot of pressure to cave to gun control. Tell him to stand firm for our rights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, call and email your OWN senator and representative and give them the same message.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good House bill: HF1325 (Hilstrom)<\/p>\n<p>Bad Senate bill: HF237 (Paymar)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good Senate bill: SF1369 (Ortman)<\/p>\n<p>Bad Senate bill: SF458 (Latz)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the subject is the Second Amendment, the DFL has a long standing pattern of moving committee meetings around, largely to keep non-DFL constituencies from being able to drive in from Greater Minnesota. And they&#8217;re doing it again. The Public Safety Committee hearing originally scheduled for this morning at 10AM has been pushed to 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[270],"class_list":["post-35273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","tag-2nd-amendment-grass-roots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273","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=35273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35275,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35273\/revisions\/35275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}