{"id":40008,"date":"2013-11-21T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40008"},"modified":"2013-11-21T13:01:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:01:16","slug":"adios-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40008","title":{"rendered":"Adios"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Paymar is leaving the House:<\/p>\n

State Rep. Michael Paymar announced Wednesday he will leave the Legislature after his current term expires.<\/p>\n

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The St. Paul Democrat is the chairman of the House Public Safety Committee; his district is considered safe Democratic territory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No. \u00a0New York under Boss Tweed was “safe Democrat territory”. \u00a0Michael Paymar’s Highland Park, a part of Saint Paul that ponied up seven figures in donations for\u00a0Kathleen Soliah’s defense fund,\u00a0is a whole level beyond that. \u00a0The DFL could endorse a bag of dog food and get 60% of the vote, and most of the voters would say the bag of dog food made perfectly good sense in the debates.<\/p>\n

Paymar collided this year with his party’s leadership over whether to change Minnesota’s gun laws. His bill to expand background checks and restrict gun purchases stalled when House leaders declined to call a vote.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, no. \u00a0It stalled when Paymar’s (and Hausman’s, and Rep. Martens’) copy-and-paste gun-grab bills served their purpose to the people who paid for their offices.<\/p>\n

Best of luck, Representative Paymar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Paymar is leaving the House: State Rep. Michael Paymar announced Wednesday he will leave the Legislature after his current term expires.   The St. Paul Democrat is the chairman of the House Public Safety Committee; his district is considered safe Democratic territory. No. \u00a0New York under Boss Tweed was “safe Democrat territory”. \u00a0Michael Paymar’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,28,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-st-paul","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40008","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=40008"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40032,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40008\/revisions\/40032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}