{"id":89407,"date":"2025-03-19T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89407"},"modified":"2025-03-19T08:16:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T13:16:35","slug":"ejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89407","title":{"rendered":"Ejected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Suddenly, the DFL is stoked.&nbsp; Nikki the Ninja is no longer the juiciest (alleged) crime story in the MN State Senate.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>For now, anyway.&nbsp; Sen. Justin Eichhorn got arrested for soliciting a &#8220;16 year old girl&#8221; who turned out to be a police decoy.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The Bloomington Police Department said Eichorn, 40, of Grand Rapids, solicited sex from a detective posing as a 17-year-old girl online. Eichorn and the detective arranged to meet near the 8300 block of Normandale Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eichorn was seen arriving in his pickup truck at the rendezvous point and was taken into custody just after 5:45 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of this publishing, Eichorn remained in the Bloomington Police Department\u2019s custody awaiting transfer to the Hennepin County Jail. Formal charges have yet to be filed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The DFL&#8230;well, they <em>tried <\/em>to have a field day with it.   It didn&#8217;t end well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/WalterHudson\/status\/1902185444021866614\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So let&#8217;s recap:  Republicans immediately demand their reprobate&#8217;s resignation.  The DFL has been stalling on any meaningful action on Nicole &#8220;Nikki the Ninja&#8221; Mitchell for almost a year, now.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t stopping them from try to deflect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/JessHansonMN\/status\/1902202388011794683\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The DFLers are using this to deflect from their hypocrisy on Nikki the Ninja.  The Repubulicans were clear, then and now: both both need to go. Stat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KARE&#8217;s Jana Shortal, whose prospects of that MSNBC gig seems to be shrinking by the day, sounded off:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/janashortal\/status\/1902055979966935380\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So apparently Democrats are going to take a break from burning Teslas to tell us &#8220;there&#8217;s <em>no such thing\u00a0<\/em>as Trump Derangement&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you need a little boost during the day, check out Tesla stock \ud83d\udcc9 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KBEh6pOZLW\">pic.twitter.com\/KBEh6pOZLW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tim_Walz\/status\/1902197581586833643?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, DFL&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suddenly, the DFL is stoked.&nbsp; Nikki the Ninja is no longer the juiciest (alleged) crime story in the MN State Senate.&nbsp; For now, anyway.&nbsp; Sen. Justin Eichhorn got arrested for soliciting a &#8220;16 year old girl&#8221; who turned out to be a police decoy.&nbsp;&nbsp; The DFL&#8230;well, they tried to have a field day with it. 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