{"id":76366,"date":"2021-01-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76366"},"modified":"2021-01-05T05:57:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:57:26","slug":"its-that-time-of-year-again-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76366","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s That Time Of Year Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Minnesota State Legislator is back in session today.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Things to be thankful for:  this time six months ago, I fully expected the GOP to lose the Minnesota Senate.  The good guys held on by one vote, and actually cut the DFL&#8217;s margin in half in the House, meaning the good guys might see some progress &#8211; if only some floor votes forcing vetos by Governor Klink, to be bandied about in the 2022 elections.  Which is a start. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it enough to shut down Governor Klink&#8217;s emergency powers?  Well, we&#8217;ll see.   More on that later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a gun owner ?  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mngunreport.com\/episode-66-january-5-2021\/\">I talk here<\/a> with Rob Doar and Bryan Strawser of the MN Gun Owners Caucus about the outlook for this session, and by extension the next one, and the 2022 campaign season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the way &#8211; if you&#8217;re a Minnesota gun owner, or even just sympathetic with civil rights in general y<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunowners.mn\/\">ou need to be supporting the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus<\/a>.  If nothing else, get on the mailing list &#8211; we excel at bringing the civil, rhetorical biblical-level wrath down on legislators when a gun bill comes out, and to be honest it&#8217;s fun being on the side of righteous fury once in a while.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minnesota State Legislator is back in session today. Things to be thankful for: this time six months ago, I fully expected the GOP to lose the Minnesota Senate. The good guys held on by one vote, and actually cut the DFL&#8217;s margin in half in the House, meaning the good guys might see some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76366","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=76366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76367,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76366\/revisions\/76367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}