Tag: Heather Martens
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Ninny Up!
“Protect Minnesota” is taking it to the streets! Heather Martens – who, let the record show, has never, not once, said or written a single true, substantive and original thing about guns or gun law – is undertaking one of her last actions as “executive director” With the Minnesota legislature convening on March 8, now…
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Lie First, Lie Always: Take Off Your Shoes; You’ll Need ‘Em
I’m not sure why I bother with Heather Martens anymore. I mean, she was never a worthy opponent – for lil’ ol’ me, much less the Human Rights activists that actually matter – and she has yet, in all her years of plumping for gun control, to utter a single, substantive, original true fact. And…
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Heather Martens: “Lie First. Lie Always”
The good guys have apparently gotten into Heather Martens’ head. GOCRA and MNGOPAC figured prominently in Martens’ “Give to the Max” day fundraising plea: By giving today, you make it possible for the voice of reason to be heard at the Capitol despite the intimidation. Intimidation? The stories we could tell. And will, someday. But…
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Heather Martens: “Round Up The Usual Suspects!”
Heather Martens – “Director” and likely sole member of “Protect Minnesota”, and sometimes ad-hoc legislative representative from House District 66A – has sent out a fund-raising email. Because trying to squat on peoples’ civil rights isn’t cheap, even if you do it badly. And in this email, Martens – who has never, not once, uttered…
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The Top Ten Next KARE11 Debate Matchups
In the wake of the “debate” between Heather Martens – liar for hire and leader of a gun grabber “group,” sort of – and… Andy Parrish? The former Michele Bachmann staffer and campaign manager of the abortive Marriage Amendment, who is famous for many things, not including having an extensive portfolio as a Second Amendment activist? Nothing against Andy, with…
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The Endless Drip, Drip, Drip Of Heather Martens
Just because Michael Bloomberg and all his money have decided to put Heather Martens on the sidelines in Minnesota’s Second Amendment “debate” doesn’t mean that the Twin Cities media isn’t dutifully lining up to give her a smooch on the hindquarters; she had an op-ed in the Strib on Sunday, in reply to an editorial by the Strib’s DJ Tice…
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Deluded Again: Heather Martens’ Press Release Habit
Since Michael Bloomberg sent her and her rage-addled partner Jane Kay to the bench during the 2014 session, I feel like I’ve neglected one of my key jobs in blogging about Second Amendment human rights in Minnesota. For those of you new to my blog, and to my coverage of the ongoing battle over that…
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Shrieking For Relevence
It’s been a rough year or so for Heather Martens. It seems like just yesterday that she was not only serving as the chairperson (and almost solitary member) of “ProtectMN”, an astroturf checkbook advocacy antigun group, but de facto Minnesota State Representative for House District 66A, doing both her own job and that of Representative Alice Hausman…
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Media Quiz Time: The Answers!
Last week, David Chanen of the Strib wrote a piece – a decent one, actually – about the straw-purchase flim-flam that put a gun in the hand of Ray Kmetz, the New Hope shooter who was legally barred from owning guns at all. And the story omitted something that almost no story about guns in…
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Discredited
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Star Tribune finally deigns to report that Department of Public Safety altered the Application to Carry a Pistol form, to include more than a dozen illegal questions. Heather Martens is fine with that. Heather Martens . . . said some of the questions on the form reveal information that…
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Lying, Criminal Or Both?
There’s an old saying; “success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan”. In the wake of the Democrat party’s nationwide electoral humiliation, the left is looking for things to hang their hopes on. It’s human nature; the good guys were doing it two years ago, too. So here’s what the Democrats are hanging their…
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A Good Guy With A Gun
A horrific rampage in Oklahoma, involving a recent convert to Islam beheading one woman and stabbing another, was ended… …by a citizen with a carry permit. More on the show tomorrow, and on SITD on Monday. UPDATE: While some media are calling the shooter/hero an “off duty cop” – which implies he was a policeman,…
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Pardon My Confusion…
…but after my years of listening to Heather Martens and Jane Kay, I can be forgiven for tossing a coin as to whether this… …is a parody or not.
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Return To Mockery
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Heather Martens. She got swept away from the spotlight by the wave of Michael Bloomberg money that came into the state this past legislative session, enriched a bunch of lobbyists… …accomlished bupkes, and swept on, leaving Heather. Until the next session starts. I digress. She was out…
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My Apologies To Heather Martens
To: Heather Martens From: Mitch Berg, Your Longtime Nemesis Re: Apology Ms. Martens, For most of the past decade and change, I’ve been running down your accuracy, your knowledge of Second Amendment issues, and the extent to which you confused “purchased lobbying power” with “fact”. Whenever you’ve opened your mouth about anything gun-related, I’ve snickered,…
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The Puppet Caucus
Say what you will about Minnesota’s gun-control movement – and I certainly have over the past 12 years on this blog – it’s always been local. Even “Grass Roots”, even if only in the sense that “there just isn’t that much grass out there”. And the movement’s leadership was at least local; while Rep. Heather Martens…
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Our Passive-Aggressive Overlords
I went down to the Capitol last night for a 6PM hearing on SF2639 – Senator Ron Latz’s bill to punish people accused but not convicted of domestic abuse by confiscating their guns and keeping them confiscated, innocence notwithstanding. We started out on a high note; Michael Paymar’s attempt to create a felony trap for law-abiding…
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Gun Control In Minnesota: The Next Useless Wave
In 2013, the grassroots of the Minnesota human rights movement – pro-Second-Amendment groups like GOCRA, the Twin Cities Gun Owners and other genuine grass-roots organizations – dealt the gun-grabbers a humiliating defeat. Even though the anti-rights groups were lavishly funded, were supported by a purchased media narrative, and controlled the entire apparatus of Minnesota government,…
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The Many Lies Of “Protect” MN, Part XXV: Prevention!
Heather Martens (DFL 66A), on the line from fantasy-land: “There is no history of [a citizen with a legally-carried firearm] being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack”. (Star-Tribune, November 27, 2012). Reality: Man with carry permit thwarts armed robbers who’d pistol-whipped shopkeeper in Northeast Minneapolis: Inside his neighborhood market, Mohamed…
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In Memory…
…of Cindy Yuille and Steven Forsythe, who were murdered a year ago at this minute (3:25PM Pacific Time) in the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Portland, Oregon by Jacob Tyler Roberts, an insane, delusional narcissist… …and the many, perhaps dozens, of people whom Roberts couldn’t murder in the ensuing minutes and hours, because Nick Meli…
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The Many Lies of “Protect” MN, Part XXIV: “No Precedent!”
I almost missed this one in the scrum of this past few weeks. A couple of weeks ago, when Representatives Paymar and Martens tried to jam down a ban on law-abiding citizens carrying their legally-permitted firearms in the Capitol complex, the Strib’s Abby Simons wrote the paper’s follow-up piece. It ended with a quote from…
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The Potemkin Law
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: House extended ban on all-plastic guns for another 10 years. Meaningless gesture. Nobody gets shot with them, banning them won’t stop people from making them any more than banning cocaine stops people from using it. Posturing to divert attention from real government failures in every other area. My grandson has…
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From A Planet With Several Moons
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Heather Martins talking. Lying. Same thing. “There is no history of someone like that being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack,” she said. Seriously? Someone should inform Abby Simons, the Star Tribune journalist who wrote the article, of some facts about permitted carry holders stopping…
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The Many Lies (And Incoherencies) Of “Protect” MN, Part XXII: And Now They’re Coming For The First Amendment, Too!
If you go to the little email widget that “Protect” Minnesota uses to try to spam legislators, you’ll see this text pre-filled. I’ll highlight the money quote: Minnesota is one of only a few states that allows private firearms to be carried at the state Capitol without screening. In addition, committee chairs don’t have the…
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The Many Lies Of “Protect” MN, Part XXI: It’s Go Time Again
This email came out from Rep Heather Martens (DFLiar, HD66A) earlier this week: Dear Friend, Tomorrow at 10:30 am, the legislature’s committee on Capitol security will decide whether to continue to let people carry loaded guns in the Capitol. At a meeting earlier this month, it became clear that some concealed carry permit holders have…