{"id":36102,"date":"2013-05-03T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36102"},"modified":"2013-05-03T11:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T16:05:41","slug":"cue-the-violins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36102","title":{"rendered":"Cue The Violins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Speaker Thissen has made the eminently sensible move of getting his party out of an issue that is vital to 4% of the voters and deeply unpopular outside the 494\/694 beltway – an issue that scuppered the DFL in 2002, indeed – Rep. Michael Paymar has the vapors<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Rep. Michael Paymar, a Democrat from St. Paul who authored the \u201cGun Violence Prevention Act,\u201d said he was \u201cvery disappointed and very angry\u201d that the proposal was no longer moving toward a vote on the House floor. \u201cI think this is the kind of thing that really makes the public cynical about politicians and about the political process,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right, Rep. Paymar. \u00a0You copied and pasted bills from other states, tried to ram them through after doing your damnedest to stifle public feedback, let a paid lobbyist introduce “Rep” Hausman’s bill, tried to jam your bill down on a wave of paid lies…<\/p>\n

…in support of a bill that is considered absolutely vital by about 4% of the population, a bill that wouldn’t affect crime at all (which has been\u00a0dropping\u00a0faster as more people buy guns), with the aid of your buddies in the media that are perfectly happy to carry your lies without question:<\/p>\n

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Paymar painting the toenails of Jane Kay of “Moms Demand Action” (heh heh) and Representative Martens immediately after a hearing.<\/p><\/div>\n

Why would anyone get cynical about that?<\/p>\n

Try again next year, Mike. \u00a0We’ll be waiting for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Speaker Thissen has made the eminently sensible move of getting his party out of an issue that is vital to 4% of the voters and deeply unpopular outside the 494\/694 beltway – an issue that scuppered the DFL in 2002, indeed – Rep. Michael Paymar has the vapors: Rep. Michael Paymar, a Democrat […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-36102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36102","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=36102"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36105,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36102\/revisions\/36105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}