{"id":64703,"date":"2017-10-05T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64703"},"modified":"2017-10-05T07:52:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:52:44","slug":"rep-walz-lie-down-protect-mn-get-elca-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=64703","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Walz:  Lie Down With &#8220;Protect&#8221; MN, Wake Up With ELCA Hair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Representative Walz<br \/>\nFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant<br \/>\nRe:\u00a0 Pandering<\/p>\n<p>Rep Walz,<\/p>\n<p>The other day, you took time off from measuring the drapes in the Governor&#8217;s office to Demsplain how you plan to end atrocities like the\u00a0 Las Vegas shooting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Walz-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-64704 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Walz-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"639\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Representative Walz:\u00a0 I realize you&#8217;re talking to your DFLer base, and they&#8217;re not long on logic, much less less knowledge on this issue, but perhaps you, or one of them, could tell me:\u00a0 how would &#8220;background checks&#8221; have prevented a shooting by a person with <em>no criminal background\u00a0<\/em>that anyone seems to be aware of?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be inviting Rep Walz onto the Northern Alliance Radio Network this Saturday to discuss this.<\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s focus for a moment on the statement &#8220;Let me\u00a0 be clear:\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got the credibility to bring gun owners to the table in St. Paul to get this done&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Doar from MNGOC had the most accurate response so far:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Doar.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64705 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Doar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Doar.png 451w, https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Doar-300x112.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pandering, you say?<\/p>\n<p>Why, yes &#8211; pandering is the word:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_60852\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60852\" class=\"wp-image-60852 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/WalzWithGrabbers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Walz cavorting with the Dreamsicles, just before the 2016 election.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With that photo, you are as &#8220;credible&#8221; with gun owners as David Duke would be as an emissary to Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 Representative Walz From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, Obstreporous Peasant Re:\u00a0 Pandering Rep Walz, The other day, you took time off from measuring the drapes in the Governor&#8217;s office to Demsplain how you plan to end atrocities like the\u00a0 Las Vegas shooting: Representative Walz:\u00a0 I realize you&#8217;re talking to your DFLer base, and they&#8217;re not long on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,320,22],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-64703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-18","category-mndfl","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64703"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64725,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64703\/revisions\/64725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}