Tag: Dorr brothers

Enemy of Public Schools

NOTE:  This is an article on the father of the extreme, right-wing gun rights brothers behind the anti-social distancing rallies.

How one man has spent 25 years thwarting bond money for rural districts

Paul Dorr is a master of tactics to defeat referendums intended to finance public schools. He believes schools run by government steer kids away from Christianity. His campaigns — most of them in the Midwest — have also created lingering bitterness within communities.

Three years ago, on a day when the small, rural town of Worthington, Minnesota, came together, it also began tearing apart.

It was King Turkey Day, one of Worthington’s largest annual events. For 79 years, the Southwest Minnesota town has celebrated its bygone poultry industry and its agricultural community with a parade, a pancake breakfast and a turkey race through downtown.

Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests

Washington Post logoA trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations are being engineered by a network of conservative activists.

The Facebook groups target Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, and they appear to be the work of Ben Dorr, the political director of a group called “Minnesota Gun Rights,” and his siblings, Christopher and Aaron. By Sunday, the groups had roughly 200,000 members combined, and they continued to expand quickly, days after President Trump endorsed such protests by suggesting citizens should “liberate” their states.

The Dorr brothers manage a slew of pro-gun groups across a wide range of states, from Iowa to Minnesota to New York, and seek primarily to discredit organizations like the National Rifle Association as being too compromising on gun safety. Minnesota Gun Rights, for instance, describes itself as the state’s “no-compromise gun rights organization.” Continue reading.