{"id":53944,"date":"2015-06-23T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53944"},"modified":"2015-06-23T12:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T17:17:37","slug":"the-smell-of-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53944","title":{"rendered":"The Smell Of Defeat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For well over a decade, &#8220;Protect MN&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s changed its name several times since it started way back when &#8211; has been the dotty, not-too-bright face of the gun control movement in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>While the wave of Michael Bloomberg money in 2013 moved the center of gravity over to &#8220;Everytown for Gun Safety&#8221; and its &#8220;local&#8221; affiliate, Heather Martens has remained an inescapable farce in Minnesota politics.<\/p>\n<p>Force. I meant force. \u00a0Honest. \u00a0I&#8217;ll catch it in post-production. \u00a0Sorry.<\/p>\n<p>But a correspondent who follows these things found this bon mot during some recreational reading of state Campaign Finance Board filings.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hmmmmm:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View Protect MN 2015 Spending on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/269468051\/Protect-MN-2015-Spending\">Protect MN 2015 Spending<\/a> by <a style=\"text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View mitchpberg's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/mitchpberg\">mitchpberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_44997\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/269468051\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-6YIJb4EzbNL6vnNdk2fd&amp;show_recommendations=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Protect MN spent $0 on lobbying in the 2015 session.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder why that is?<\/p>\n<p>My hunch: \u00a0The local gun control movement has entirely ceded the heavy lifting to the national groups like Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s &#8220;Everytown&#8221;, and has focused on its &#8220;strength&#8221;; babbling their delusional twaddle to the gullible.<\/p>\n<p>But who&#8217;s minding the store for Big Minnesota GuN Control?<\/p>\n<p>More on that later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For well over a decade, &#8220;Protect MN&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s changed its name several times since it started way back when &#8211; has been the dotty, not-too-bright face of the gun control movement in Minnesota. While the wave of Michael Bloomberg money in 2013 moved the center of gravity over to &#8220;Everytown for Gun Safety&#8221; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,323,2,132,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-gun-control","category-big-leftymoney","category-minnesota-politics","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53944","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=53944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53946,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53944\/revisions\/53946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}