{"id":48902,"date":"2014-11-06T08:47:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48902"},"modified":"2014-11-28T04:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T10:45:28","slug":"the-sweetest-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48902","title":{"rendered":"The Sweetest Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the brighter spots in Tuesday’s proceedings was the crushing <\/em>victory of Peggy Bennett over Shannon Savick in Albert Lea.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was an old-fashioned whooping – 53-40.\u00a0 Not even close.\u00a0 And that was with an Indyparty candidate who took 6% out of the race, likely mostly from Bennett.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m still doing the end-zone happy dance in my head.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shannon Savick was one of the DFLers from Greater Minnesota who supported Michael Paymar and Alice “The Phantom” Hausman’s gun grab bills <\/a>in the 2013 legislature.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And she was one of the DFLers who joined Hausman and Paymar in getting up and theatrically walking out of the hearing room when the Real Americans of the Second Amendment movement started their testimony against their proposals.\u00a0 Indeed, the DFL made a shameful spetacle of ignoring their opponents’ testimony.<\/p>\n

Watching their bills – and all of their support from Michael Bloomberg – go down to whining, piddling defeat – was sweet.\u00a0 And it was what mattered most.<\/p>\n

But seeing Shannon Savick tossed out of office with all the ceremony of a day old egg salad sandwich is right up there.<\/p>\n

OK, Ms. Savick.\u00a0 NOW you may get up and leave the room.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 It wasn’t just Savick – and it wasn’t just in Minnesota.\u00a0 Gun grabbers were crushed nationwide<\/a>.\u00a0 It was lopsided in the Senate, of course – but the most astounding progress was among governors.<\/p>\n

To sum it all up?\u00a0 The NRA-endorsed candidate won in Maryland<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Perhaps bigger, but definitely more subtle?\u00a0 The flip of the Senate will at least slow down President Obama’s ongoing campaign to pack the Federal Appelate courts with gun-grabbing activists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was a good Tuesday for Pro-Second-Amendment Real Americans from coast to coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the brighter spots in Tuesday’s proceedings was the crushing victory of Peggy Bennett over Shannon Savick in Albert Lea.\u00a0 It was an old-fashioned whooping – 53-40.\u00a0 Not even close.\u00a0 And that was with an Indyparty candidate who took 6% out of the race, likely mostly from Bennett.\u00a0 I’m still doing the end-zone happy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,132,320,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48902","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=48902"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48906,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48902\/revisions\/48906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}