MN Pol (R) With Gun Outside Abortion Clinic Says He Was Just In Area 'Checking On' His Girlfriend

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Minn. Pol With Gun Outside Abortion Clinic Says He Was Just In Area 'Checking On' His Girlfriend
Rachel Slajda | November 24, 2010, 12:10PM


A security guard at a St. Paul Planned Parenthood clinic called the cops last week after he spotted a Republican state lawmaker with a loaded gun in the parking lot. But the pol says he was only "checking on" his online girlfriend, who he thought may be on a date with another man -- a claim police have not been able to corroborate because the man did not have a phone number or address for the woman.

According to the police report, a security guard reported the man, Rep. Tom Hackbarth, after he saw him get out of a pickup truck in the parking lot with a loaded gun in a hip holster. The guard saw him walk into an alley near the clinic.

When police came, they handcuffed him and took his gun, which he has a concealed carry permit for. Hackbarth claimed he didn't realize he was in the Planned Parenthood parking lot, according to the police report. He said he was in the neighborhood looking for his girlfriend, a woman he said he had met online a few months before and had been on a couple dates with.

Police have not been able to track down the mystery woman. Hackbarth said he didn't have her phone number or address, as he only communicated with her via an online dating site. He also told police he didn't remember the name of the site.

Hackbarth later told the Star Tribune that he had had coffee with the woman the day before and asked her out to dinner. She declined, saying she had plans with a female friend in the Highland Park, the neighborhood around the Planned Parenthood clinic.

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1. How much of a weirdo are you when you think a girl you talked to online is your girlfriend

[dflprincess]

3. And, technically, the guy is married

though he says he & his wife have been separated for over a year (I wonder why).

The local news did run the tape from the Planned Parenthood security camera. You might be able to view it at http:/www.wcco.com

[RamboLiberal]

2. Dupe to earlier thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9623307

[Jim__]

4. He thought she might be out with someone else so he went looking for her with a gun.

I hope she's smart enough to write this idiot off.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. My first question has got to be "Who takes someone to an abortion

clinic for a date?". He needs to brush up on his spontaneous storytelling.

[niyad]

7. toward the end of the article, he claimed that she lived in the neighborhood of the clinic.

anybody other than a pol would be in jail now, wouldn't he?

[niyad]

6. so we aren't to think of him as a pro-forced birther terrorist, only a psycho stalker.

[SpiralHawk]

8. Republicon Family Values. The pits. As usual.

Ptooooey.

[Ian David]

9. Was MARRIED Republican Hackbarth trying to use a gun to stop his mistress from getting an abortion?

I'm just asking questions.

[MidwestTransplant]

10. 1. He was going to the alley to buy drugs. or 2. He was trying to hook up with

a prostitute. Probably male since presumably he is a homophobe.

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11. Doing either of those things with a gun out in the open is not a good idea

[RagAss]

12. Bingo ! We have a Winner !

[Hoyt]

13. Too many folks -- including some DUers -- think folks should walk around with guns in public.

They think permit holders -- like this permitted mental case -- don't commit crimes.