{"id":66025,"date":"2018-02-21T11:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66025"},"modified":"2018-02-20T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T03:04:09","slug":"walzs-waffles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66025","title":{"rendered":"Walz&#8217;s Waffles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 12 years, now, Tim Walz was perfectly happy to bamboozle his district by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrapvf.org\/articles\/20100924\/nra-pvf-endorses-tim-walz-for-us-house-of-representatives-in-minnesota-s-1st-congressional-district\">accepting the NRA&#8217;s endorsement<\/a> &#8211; pretty8 much a requirement in the rural south of Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>Now &#8211; running for the DFL endorsement for governor against impeccably-Metrocrat Rebecca Otto &#8211; he&#8217;s calling for all sorts of gun controls, including gun bans.<\/p>\n<p>You read it here first, two years ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-60852\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It may look like a Nazi women&#8217;s prison camp guard re-union, but in fact it&#8217;s Rep. Walz meeting with Moms Want Action\u00a0 &#8211; a subsidiary of Everytown, Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s group, which outspent\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>pro-gun groups 17-1 in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Is he after all that Bloomberg money?\u00a0 All those Metrocrat votes?<\/p>\n<p>Who cares?\u00a0 All we know is, he&#8217;ll be back looking for shooter votes once the DFL convention is over.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s cast his lot.\u00a0 Will it cost him?\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t seem to think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 12 years, now, Tim Walz was perfectly happy to bamboozle his district by accepting the NRA&#8217;s endorsement &#8211; pretty8 much a requirement in the rural south of Minnesota. Now &#8211; running for the DFL endorsement for governor against impeccably-Metrocrat Rebecca Otto &#8211; he&#8217;s calling for all sorts of gun controls, including gun bans. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144,2,320],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minnesota-politics","category-mndfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66025","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=66025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66026,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66025\/revisions\/66026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}