{"id":62705,"date":"2017-04-10T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62705"},"modified":"2019-01-21T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:14:10","slug":"the-long-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62705","title":{"rendered":"The Long Con"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt Windschitl called out “Iowa Gun Owners” as a scam from the floor of the Iowa state legislature<\/a>. \u00a0 \u00a0We’ve met Windschitl in this space before; I’ve interviewed him on my show<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Iowa Gun Owners is the Iowa “branch” of the “Minnesota Gun Rights”. – which is a misnomer, as MGR actually is headquartered in Iowa.<\/p>\n

Windschitl savaged IGO for taking credit for Iowa’s recent passage of “Stand Your Ground” legislation, pointing out that not a single legislator had heard from Aaron Dorr, and the group had not even registered as lobbyists.<\/p>\n

The TV story shown in the link above notes that Aaron Dorr doesn’t take a salary “from the group”, and that most of the group’s \u00a0nearly $300,000 in donations went to “direct mail” expenses.<\/p>\n

Unmentioned; \u00a0the Dorr Brothers own the direct mail company that serves IGO, Minnesota Gun Rights, and several other state gun and pro-life groups.<\/p>\n

This is the first serious media attention that’s been paid to the Dorr brothers’ operations. \u00a0It should not be the last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matt Windschitl called out “Iowa Gun Owners” as a scam from the floor of the Iowa state legislature. \u00a0 \u00a0We’ve met Windschitl in this space before; I’ve interviewed him on my show, Iowa Gun Owners is the Iowa “branch” of the “Minnesota Gun Rights”. – which is a misnomer, as MGR actually is headquartered in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273],"class_list":["post-62705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-carpetbaggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62705","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=62705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62706,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62705\/revisions\/62706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}