{"id":59931,"date":"2016-08-11T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59931"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:20:23","slug":"iowa-minnesota-flim-flammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59931","title":{"rendered":"Iowa<\/strike> “Minnesota” Flim-Flammers"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve written at some depth in the past about Minnesota Gun Rights – an astroturf fundraising group that raises a lot of money and generates a lot of strident social media about 2nd Amendment politics in Minnesota, but has never actually delivered any significant results.   A bipartisan selection of Minnesota’s most committed pro-human-rights legislators repudiated MGR <\/a>a few years back.<\/p>\n

In 2014, they dropped a few boxes of literature in the Roz Peterson race in Burnsville – and claimed credit for the victory.  This, and a couple of misplaced ads on AM11<\/code>30, were their total effort that cycle.<\/p>\n

In this primary cycle, they sent a lot of email to the Hackbarth\/Bahr race, and also direct-mailed GOP activists in the Daudt\/Duff race.<\/p>\n

Well, guess what?<\/p>\n

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MGR is claiming credit for Cal Bahr’s victory over Hackbarth in HD31B – as seen in the social-media meme that’s been circulating all day today<\/p>\n

Near as I’ve been able to find from my sources on the subject, MGR’s entire “campaign” in the Bahr\/Hackbarth contest was email.<\/p>\n

But let’s break it down:  Tom Hackbarth had:<\/p>\n