{"id":65273,"date":"2017-11-30T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65273"},"modified":"2017-11-29T19:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T01:20:02","slug":"this-is-the-profile-in-courage-that-could-be-your-new-representative-in-61b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65273","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Profile In Courage That Could Be Your New Representative In 61B"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sarah Freeman is a DFLer running in House District 61B.<\/p>\n

And she’s pretty much going to be a puppet of Michael Bloomberg.\u00a0 And not “puppet” in the cool sense, like “Lambchop” or “Kukla and Ollie”.<\/p>\n

No.\u00a0 \u00a0The other kind:<\/p>\n

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In response, two women posted comments.\u00a0 I thought both womens’ comments were respectful and valid, but saying so would be called “Mansplaining”, so I’ll let you all be the judge:<\/p>\n

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Now, I happen to know both of these women; Sarah is, in addition to being a shooter, also a left-leaning DFLer on every\u00a0other\u00a0<\/em>issue imaginable (also a friend of mine, as is Lisa).<\/p>\n

But both comments were deleted, and both women blocked from Freeman’s site, in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n

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Two of these people are gun grabbers. The “group” is another gun grabber.<\/p><\/div>\n

Which is, of course, of a piece with the contagion of cowardice that seems to be befalling DFL pols lately; not only do they eradicate all hint of dissent from their social media, in many cases they proactively block all conservative commenters, using commercial and non-profit social media control apps, before any interaction takes place (koff koff Tina Liehling koff gutless koff koff).<\/p>\n

Oh, other interactions \u00e2re perfectly welcome.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s a campaign site.\u00a0 Someone running, even in this stiflilngly “progressive” Minneapolis district (currently “represented” by Paul Thissen) has every right to control the conversation on their\u00a0campaign\u00a0<\/em>website and social media.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s legitimate.\u00a0 Gutless, but legitimate.<\/p>\n

The problem is, many\u00a0elected\u00a0<\/em>DFL pols actively stifle inconvenient questions on social media; my favorite example, naturally, was two years ago, when I broke the story of Alondra Cano using constituents’ private information from the\u00a0<\/a>City of Minneapolis website\u00a0<\/em> to try to “shame” people who questioned her use of her office to support Black Lives Matter’s attempt to shut down the Mall of Amarica.\u00a0 \u00a0When I respectfully but pointedly brought it up on social media and on this blog, Cano blocked me.<\/p>\n

It is, of course, because Cano is not only a coward, she is fundamentally anti-Democratic.\u00a0 She is an intellectual jackboot.<\/p>\n

And it appears Ms. Freeman is cut from the same hobnailed material.<\/p>\n

Oh, yeah – the article she links to?\u00a0 We’ll dispose of that tomorrow or Monday.\u00a0 Easily, and with contemptuous prejudice.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Freeman is a DFLer running in House District 61B. And she’s pretty much going to be a puppet of Michael Bloomberg.\u00a0 And not “puppet” in the cool sense, like “Lambchop” or “Kukla and Ollie”. No.\u00a0 \u00a0The other kind: In response, two women posted comments.\u00a0 I thought both womens’ comments were respectful and valid, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,320,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65273","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=65273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65280,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65273\/revisions\/65280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}