Two Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota shot in their separate homes

[Lazaran]

his wife was detained for 3 hours after a traffic stop found a gun, ammunition, cash and passports in her vehicle. She was travelling with a few unnamed relatives. SInce that's the extent of clarification about the relatives, it might be they were some of her children. The article linked here says it is unknown whether the couple were living together at the time of the assassination attacks, but I did catch a tv interview (brief) with a very distraught man introduced as boetler's "room mate" outside a fairly basic-looking dwelling. The "room mate' was saing he had no idea why vance had done what he did... "it's just not vance," he cried.

That doesn't sound to me like the boetlers were still living together and so the wife well may have been doing what anyone sensible, and able to, would do and that is put distance between herself and him in order to protect her family. If he has indeed gone off the rails over a split-up, it's not a stretch to imagine he might seek to target her and her family.

With that right wing POS still on the loose, she would be a fool not to go underground / get off the grid until that psycho is caught.

I would imagine everyone who knows him personally or professionally is terrified right now.

 

[butters]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...tp&cvid=f71316662f9b439c91856f901ee1f760&ei=6

looks like he definitely wasn't living with his wife as he paid his housemate 4-months' rent in advance, around $900

this unbalanced individual was reportedly working at a funeral home, an eye-donation place and a non-profit with no records of income/expenditure, all while saying he was open to getting back into the food business in some leadership position.

Boelter is also listed on federal tax forms as the president of a Minnesota-based nonprofit called You Give Them Something to Eat, though there’s no indication of any spending or income, according to the Washington Post.

boetler sent the housemate this prior to the murders:

“I made some choices, and you guys don’t know anything about this, but I’m going to be gone for a while. May be dead shortly, so I just want to let you know I love you guys both and I wish it hadn’t gone this way.”

the number of places he's supposed to have worked at for the durations claimed is eyewatering and clearly the product of a disturbed individual. In my opinion, a grandiose sense of his own importance clashing with the reality of not being reliably employed, his background of evangelism and his trumpist entitlement not reflected by reality all lead him by the nose down this inevitable, horrible path to thinking it's okay to take other people's lives.

 

[eric_erosfan]

He had been appointed by Dayton and Walz to his position. Dems eating Dems it appears as of now.
It's not Dems vs Reps it's extreme left vs extreme right and it's going to get ugly if it doesn't stop.
Extreme left will be to blame in the end.

Where are you stupid fucking MAGAtard? Running away from you idiocy?

 

[eric_erosfan]

LOL. Nah, wild speculation. And if he's a rightie, you will hear the munching as I eat my words.

Already ate them over Chump.

Did you eat your words yet? You like to spread MAGA disinformation.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Did you eat your words yet? You like to spread MAGA disinformation.

Chompity chompity chomp......

 

[John_von_Neumann]

Suspect is in custody.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/n...custody-minnesota-lawmaker-shootings-sources/

 

[Politruk]

Nobody involved in this, killer or victims, is or was any kind of leftist.

Bears repeating.

 

[PaxNurgle]

Hisarpy (calling himself "justplainjeff" in this particular thread) likes to cling to his own delusional fantasies, to make himself feel better. That is part of the reason so few people actually respect him, regardless of which handle he uses, when he has the emotional intellect of a child.

 

[dmallord]

Breathing a sigh of relief. He was apprehended today in a rural woodland setting and surrendered peacefully when surrounded.

 

[eric_erosfan]

Breathing a sigh of relief. He was apprehended today in a rural woodland setting and surrendered peacefully when surrounded.

Right-wing evangelical nut who probably thinks he is a hero. Did what all the MAGAtards on the PB have fantasized about.

 

[butters]

it is now known that boetler went to two other dem lawmakers' homes the same night but, fortunately, one wasn't home and boetler was interrupted at the second by an officer doing a wellness check after hearing about the Hoffman shootings.

After the shooting at the Hoffmans' home, Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson says Boelter went to a state representative's home in Maple Grove. However, that lawmaker had been on vacation and was not home at the time.

Boelter then allegedly moved on to the home of a state senator in New Hope. After learning about the shooting of the Hoffmans in Champlin, a New Hope police officer went to the senator's home to do a wellness check. The officer arrived to find what appeared to be another officer's squad car, later identified as Boelter's vehicle, parked outside the home. The officer tried to engage in conversation with Boelter, but he did not respond. By the time more officers arrived, Boelter was gone.

The FBI did not identify either of the two other lawmakers whose homes Boelter allegedly targeted, though state Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope, said in a statement on Monday that she's been "made aware" that Boelter's SUV was parked near her home Saturday morning.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...1&cvid=81090f956781409686eb93ec268bba8e&ei=70

 

[Lazaran]

it is now known that boetler went to two other dem lawmakers' homes the same night but, fortunately, one wasn't home and boetler was interrupted at the second by an officer doing a wellness check after hearing about the Hoffman shootings.







https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crim...1&cvid=81090f956781409686eb93ec268bba8e&ei=70

Talk about dodging a bullet.



So glad that unhinged right wing POS is in custody.

 

[Politruk]

Right-wing evangelical nut who probably thinks he is a hero. Did what all the MAGAtards on the PB have fantasized about.

Will there be demonstrations in support, I wonder?

 

[Politruk]

it is now known that boetler went to two other dem lawmakers' homes the same night but, fortunately, one wasn't home and boetler was interrupted at the second by an officer doing a wellness check after hearing about the Hoffman shootings.

John Wilkes Booth was part of a conspiracy to assassinate several federal officials, but Lincoln was the only one they got. You have to plan these things carefully.

 

[butters]

more about boetler's fucked uppedness:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/t...p&cvid=513cf727f60a42ffb336421f94fce8d9&ei=19

The emerging biography of Vance Boelter suggests a partial answer, one that involves his contact with a charismatic Christian movement whose leaders speak of spiritual warfare, an army of God, and demon-possessed politicians, and which has already proved, during the January 6 insurrection, its ability to mobilize followers to act.

Reporting so far describes Boelter, the 57-year-old man now facing murder charges, as a married father of five who worked in the food industry for decades, managed a gas station in St. Paul and a 7-Eleven in Minneapolis, and recently began working for funeral-service companies as he struggled financially. At the same time, Boelter had an active, even grandiose, spiritual life long before he allegedly carried out what authorities describe as a “political assassination” and texted his family afterward, “Dad went to war last night.”

To some degree, the roots of Boelter’s beliefs can be traced to a Bible college he attended in Dallas called Christ for the Nations Institute. A school official confirmed to me that Boelter graduated in 1990 with a diploma in practical theology.

Little known to outsiders, the college is a prominent training institution for charismatic Christians. It was co-founded in 1970 by a Pentecostal evangelist named James Gordon Lindsay, a disciple of the New Order of the Latter Rain, one of many revivalist movements that took hold around the country after World War II. Followers believed that an outpouring of the Holy Spirit was under way, raising up new apostles and prophets and a global End Times army to battle Satanic forces and establish God’s kingdom on Earth.

Although Pentecostal churches at the time rejected Latter Rain ideas as unscriptural, the concepts lived on at Christ for the Nations, which has become a hub for the modern incarnation of the movement, known as the New Apostolic Reformation. NAR ideas have spread far and wide through megachurches, global networks of apostles and prophets, and a media ecosystem of online ministries, books, and podcasts, becoming a grassroots engine of the Christian Right.

another guy with deep ties to the college became a youtube influencer and encouraged people to attend J6; a woman, an "influential prophet, advisor and frequent lecturer at the college was preset at J6, praying as rioters climbed the steps of the Capitol building.

 

[John_von_Neumann]

Religion is a hell of a drug.

 

[butters]

fortunately, this attempted abduction failed before it progressed too far

still, it is yet another example of how the ugly political rhetoric filters down and spurs such acts of intended violence.

A man has been charged with stalking, attempted kidnapping and aggravated criminal trespass after allegedly scaling a wall and knocking on the door of Memphis Mayor Paul Young's residence in Tennessee, police say.

The Memphis Police Department said Wednesday that it recovered "a taser, gloves, rope and duct tape" from the vehicle of 25-year-old Trenton Abston as he was arrested.

The suspect allegedly approached the home on Sunday "with gloves on, a full pocket, and a nervous demeanor," Young wrote Wednesday on Facebook.

"What starts as reckless words online can all too quickly become something much more dangerous," the mayor continued. "The angry rhetoric, the hateful speech, and the heated threats create a culture where violence feels like a next step instead of a red line."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/m...p&cvid=2a38527e44624253daa8f17b1dd65164&ei=66

 

[eric_erosfan]

Curious if Orange Hitler called it a dark day in America when this happened.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

This seems like a good time to bump this thread.

Charlie Kirk might be alive today if people on the right had more vocally denounced the use of political violence.

 

[Saint_Ann]

The Dems are going to be out of power for a long time. We better get used to their use of violence, cause it's all they have.

 

[BrightShinyGirl]

The Dems are going to be out of power for a long time. We better get used to their use of violence, cause it's all they have.

The Hortmans were murdered by a right wing nut, just like Charlie Kirk.

 

[YDB95]

The Hortmans were murdered by a right wing nut, just like Charlie Kirk.

Welcome to Right Wing World, where repetition proves the truth.

 

[73Seahawks]

OMG. Here we go AGAIN UGH!

 

[Saint_Ann]

The Hortmans were murdered by a right wing nut, just like Charlie Kirk.

Keep spinning.

 

[Bn2f]

The Dems are going to be out of power for a long time. We better get used to their use of violence, cause it's all they have.

I mean, I say that you're one of, if not, THE most stupid individuals to ever grace the pages of the PB, capable only of offering up one sealioning nonsequitor question after another, but every now and then you dare step into the waters of an actual statement on politics and show the world that the claims of your lacking intelligence isn't just made up.

Who is the current president of the United States? LOL.
See, that was an easy one that even an egomaniacal and demented trump would wrongly lay a claim to when out of office as he did continuously for the 4 years during the Biden admin. Now, a bit harder, do you know the difference between serving in the US House and being a state house representative?
Ya don't!
Not only do you not know, but you know nothing about the assassination of Melissa Hortman or jack shit about the state of Minnesota or ANY state gov.

But, for kicks and giggles, let's take your claim that we better get used to political violence whenever dems are not in power as a fact.
The Minnesota State House entered into session with 67 repubs and 67 dems - a legislative tie. But because a House needs a speaker, BOTH parties entered into a power sharing agreement and named Hortman the Speaker. The Minnesota State Senate is actually republican so no matter who the governor is, it's a state where actual bipartisanship is a necessity and a must. But Tim Walz is a democrat and thus, by your own out the ass logic, the murder of Hortman (BY A KNOWN magat), would fall squarely at the feet of an opportunistic Republican Party seeking a statehouse majority in addition to a possible veto overriding power over a Democratic governor.

There, class is no longer in session though I know the technical babble of what I just said still went over your depth of understanding and
comprehension (<-- I called you stupid again).

Maybe try sometime to refrain from THE VILE DIARRHEA OF INSIPID NOTHINGNESS YOU CONSTANTLY SPEW YOU DUMB MUTHAFUCKIN SHIT.