{"id":56349,"date":"2015-11-30T08:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56349"},"modified":"2020-07-28T17:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T22:59:52","slug":"komissar-kim-norton-mkkarthyist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56349","title":{"rendered":"Komissar Kim Norton, MkKarthyist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve gone around and around with Representative Kim Norton of Rochester. \u00a0Norton, who is retiring from the Legislature after this coming session, is going to be carrying Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s water; she&#8217;ll be sponsoring, so we&#8217;re told, a number of gun control bills.<\/p>\n<p>Not that you can get a straight answer out of her; although she went into great detail in the <i>Rochester Post-Bulletin\u00a0<\/i>in which she called for a &#8220;conversation about guns&#8221;, she also told anyone who wanted to engage in dialog (as opposed to echo-chamber monologue) that she really had no idea what she was going to put into any bill, and had nothing to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>Which is kind of hilarious, if you think about it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, on Twitter over the holiday weekend, she found a specific proposal to support &#8211; from Bloomberg&#8217;s chief streetwalker in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand.<\/p>\n<p>And her response (below) to MNGOPAC leader Bryan Strawser is one for the record books, and one that every Rochester voter should take up with Ms. Norton:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4518.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_4518.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\u00a0That&#8217;s right &#8211; for opposing denying civil rights to people who wind up on a non-transparent, easily-abused, unsupervised grab bag of names collected so willy-nilly it&#8217;s become the stuff of folk legends, for which the Feds don&#8217;t have to tell why, or even whether, you&#8217;re on it, Rep. Norton, one of the DFL&#8217;s inner circle thought leaders, equates you with a terrorist.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Democrats were opposed to mysterious\u00a0starchambers handing down secret lists of enemies, with no transparency or accountability? \u00a0I&#8217;ll bet Rep. Nortdon does.<\/p>\n<p>This is today&#8217;s DFL.<\/p>\n<p>Question: \u00a0Do you suppose anyone in the media will question Rep. Norton on this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve gone around and around with Representative Kim Norton of Rochester. \u00a0Norton, who is retiring from the Legislature after this coming session, is going to be carrying Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s water; she&#8217;ll be sponsoring, so we&#8217;re told, a number of gun control bills. Not that you can get a straight answer out of her; although she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,320,51,22,100],"tags":[343,422],"class_list":["post-56349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-mndfl","category-liberal-tyranny","category-victim-disarmament","category-your-papers-please","tag-2015-shootie-nominee","tag-kim-norton-idiot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56349","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=56349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56354,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56349\/revisions\/56354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}