{"id":60933,"date":"2016-11-11T11:10:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T17:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60933"},"modified":"2016-11-11T07:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T13:00:43","slug":"60933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60933","title":{"rendered":"A Win And A Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, &#8220;Protect Minnesota&#8221; certainly seems happy &#8211; they broke out the &#8220;happy&#8221; stock photos yesterday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60934 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/PM.jpg\" alt=\"pm\" width=\"333\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So Protect\u00a0<em>Minnesota\u00a0<\/em>is happy about something that happened in\u00a0<em>California<\/em>? \u00a0Why is that?<\/p>\n<p>Because they&#8217;ve got\u00a0<em>nothing\u00a0<\/em>to celebrate\u00a0in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Bupkes.<\/p>\n<p><del>Anti-gun<\/del> Pro-criminal groups &#8211; &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota and Moms Want Action, which are really nothing but puppets of Everytown, the group controlled and owned by New York plutocrat Michael Bloomberg &#8211; spent\u00a0<em>$800,000\u00a0<\/em>in Minnesota this past cycle, most of it in the past month or so. \u00a0They\u00a0<em>heavily\u00a0<\/em>targeted several seats: \u00a0Roz Peterson in Burnsville, Sarah Anderson in Plymouth, and several seats in the purple-ish southwestern suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>And they certainly had some effect&#8230;on Democrats,\u00a0<em>before\u00a0<\/em>the election. \u00a0Rep. Walz, from Southern Minnesota&#8217;s 1st Congressional District, who has always made pro-gun noises commensurate with his largely rural district, felt comfortable (or arrogant?) enough circulate a photo of him with a couple of Bloomberg&#8217;s Dreamsicles the week before the election:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60852\" style=\"width: 413px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60852\" class=\"wp-image-60852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\" alt=\"walzwithgrabbers\" width=\"403\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walz posing with the Dreamsicles. Republicans in CD1 &#8211; make sure this photo comes back in 2018.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And at the end of the evening, all of that blood money got them&#8230;what?<\/p>\n<p>They spent some of their money on Dave Hann &#8211; who was largely toppled by the changing demographics in his bluish-purple district and the mountain of indepedent cash. \u00a0Their loss &#8211; and only tangentially related to the Bloomberg spending.<\/p>\n<p>And one House seat &#8211; again, Bloomberg&#8217;s cash was only part of the flood of Democrat money that poured into the state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and only speed bumps on the way to the GOP flipping the Senate and extending its control of the House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Future<\/strong>: \u00a0It&#8217;s not\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>god news.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota and the Action Moms did, finally, learn something from the good guys. \u00a0They did in fact spend some time and energy cultivating and training volunteers, and getting into political action. \u00a0The years when we could count on Heather Martens&#8217; incompetence and indolence to insulate Real Americans from reality are over.<\/p>\n<p>We Real American joke &#8211; rightly &#8211; about the gun grabbers needing to\u00a0<em>pay\u00a0<\/em>for their volunteers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-25-at-2.03.22-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60706 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-25-at-2.03.22-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-25-at-2-03-22-pm\" width=\"283\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-25-at-2.03.22-PM.png 753w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-25-at-2.03.22-PM-268x300.png 268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;while thousands of us turn out on our own time and dime to make the magic happen. \u00a0And it is a legitimate point of pride for the good guys.<\/p>\n<p>But stop and think.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-criminal groups\u00a0<em>have the money to spend<\/em>, and they&#8217;re spending it like drunk Kardashians.<\/p>\n<p>$800,000 to\u00a0<em>help,\u00a0<\/em>maybe, flip two seats in the legislature? \u00a0Well over ten times what all pro-freedom groups spent, combined? \u00a0That&#8217;s pocket lint to Michael Bloomberg. \u00a0It&#8217;s background noise to the well-heeled liberals who support the pro-criminal groups.<\/p>\n<p>And while the volunteers may well be the Subaru-driving, Saint Olaf-attending, Whole Foods shopping, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58883\">ELCA-haired<\/a> caricatures that I gleefully point out to you, even a caricature out doing productive work on the street moves the needle.<\/p>\n<p>So we pro-freedom people have a lot to celebrate today. \u00a0The SCOTUS has a fighting chance of breaking with the good guys for the next generation; the Legislature will no doubt put a &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; measure on the Governor&#8217;s desk, and\u00a0by my count, the GOP and outstate Democrats are\u00a0<em>painfully\u00a0<\/em>close to being able to override Governor Flint-Smith&#8217;s veto. \u00a0 We won one against a flood of out-of-state money.<\/p>\n<p>But this is going to get harder, not easier.<\/p>\n<p>Oil up those wallets and keep those walking shoes ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, &#8220;Protect Minnesota&#8221; certainly seems happy &#8211; they broke out the &#8220;happy&#8221; stock photos yesterday! So Protect\u00a0Minnesota\u00a0is happy about something that happened in\u00a0California? \u00a0Why is that? Because they&#8217;ve got\u00a0nothing\u00a0to celebrate\u00a0in Minnesota. Bupkes. Anti-gun Pro-criminal groups &#8211; &#8220;Protect&#8221; Minnesota and Moms Want Action, which are really nothing but puppets of Everytown, the group controlled and owned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minnesota-politics","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60933","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=60933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60940,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60933\/revisions\/60940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}