The actual charge that got him was failure to report campaign finance funds. An Iowa senator taking money from a campaign in exchange for support is a violation of state senate ethics rules, not laws, but all that could happen from that is censure, I believe.

Dorr set up a deal with .. forgot who?... for Kent Sorenson to take around $75,000 through a hidden deal in exchange for endorsing a different presidential candidate. Then Kent Sorenson did it, and kept it hidden. Then Kent got found out and lost in court. Then Sorenson exercised freedom of self and failed several piss tests in a row while on parole.
I see that the Kent Sorenson wikipedia page is somewhat lacking in details about it all. The page could probably benefit from some more specific names verified in the court proceedings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Sorenson#2012_Republican_presidential_caucus_and_ethics_controversy

Edited to add more details:
A good summary is at http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2013/08/ron-paul-campaign-accused-of-trying/




In Sorenson's guilty plea and stipulation of facts, neither Dorr nor anyone else is actually named, giving them plausible deniability. It refers to things like "Political Candidate X" and "his representative" and "Political Operative D"
http://www.scribd.com/doc/237928393/Kent-Sorenson-Statement-of-Facts

Did you know that

I hadn't realized it, but I have seen the light since the IGO email told me that this morning.

The usual email
1) FUD
2) some moderately accurate info about our laws
3) FUD
4) takin' credit, implication that IGO got concealed carry reform passed
5) please agree to your most generous contribution of $500, $250 or $100 right away.
If that’s too much, please agree to at least $50 or $25.
Every dollar will help me push forward for Stand-Your-Ground in Iowa.
So please sign your Stand-Your-Ground petitions and make your most generous contribution of $500, $250, $100, $50 or $25 IMMEDIATELY!

6) YOURS IN FREEDOM!!!!!, Aaron Dorr
7) PS I hope you’ll consider contributing your most generous contribution of $500, $250, $100, $50 or $25 IMMEDIATELY!

I went to a gun show this weekend.  The IGO booth asked me as I walked by if I knew that I would go to jail for defending myself outside of my own home.  He wanted me to sign a petition to support stand your ground.  I asked if there was a bill presented before the Iowa Congress yet.  He said there is one.  I asked who the sponsor or author was.  He didn't know.  

The entire petition is so they can get gun show attendants phone/email/address to continue to push every chance they get.  This is why I support IFC.  Interesting how IFC is going to work while IGO is trying to sell t-shirts and begging for the money to the point of making it seem like 50 is a shamefully small amount to give.

spot on...

Today's FUD, mixed with a lesson in how to do addition and multiplication:

The latest in the BS. Note how they reference certain groups (the only possible groups being IFC and the NRA) that just accept Gronstal's "NO" and walk away (I highlighted this in bold and blue). Get ready for the stupid, I can see the pattern emerging again.




Dear xxxxx,                     February 23, 2015  

Mike Gronstal.

Almost every gun owner across the state of Iowa recognizes the name of Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal as being synonymous with blockading almost every pro-gun bill that has been introduced in the Iowa State Senate for almost a decade.

Constitutional Carry? Gronstal killed it.

The Firearms Freedom Act? Gronstal blocked it.

Suppressor legislation? Gronstal says NO!

Now, Mike Gronstal is doing everything he can to stop Stand-Your-Ground legislation, Senate File 137, from even coming up for a vote.

This is how Gronstal always operates.

Rather than allowing legislation to be voted on in the Iowa State Senate, Gronstal simply ensures that these bills never come up for a vote.

The reason is simple. Gronstal knows what happens to members of his caucus that vote against Iowans’ right to keep and bear arms.

Over the last couple of election cycles, numerous members of his caucus have been removed from office once gun owners were made aware of the radically anti-gun records held by their State Senator.

Just last year, after Iowa Gun Owners embarked on a months-long education program designed to highlight the fact that State Senator Daryl Beall was introducing Michael Bloomberg styled legislation in the Iowa State Senate, the voters removed this long-time Senator from office.

Gronstal knows this, and that’s why he’s trying to avoid having Stand-Your-Ground come up for a vote in the Iowa Senate.

This, despite the fact that Senate File 137 already has the cosponsorship of 24 members of the State Senate!

Two votes short of passage!

Some organizations in Iowa, when they’re told “NO” by politicians like Gronstal, simply throw up their hands and say to themselves: “We’ll try again next year.”

Few organizations are willing to confront Grosntal head-on for his obstructionist policies.

But this is Iowa Gun Owners.

That’s why, moments ago, Iowa Gun Owners kicked off another round of radio ads across the state – this time, targeting Mike Gronstal.

We are already hearing tremendous feedback on the radio ads that were run across the state on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Steve Sodders last week.

And thanks to the overwhelming support of all of you, we have been able to expand this program to include the Senate Majority leader himself.

Check out the ad below – I think you’re going to love it!


You see, Mike Gronstal wants to have his cake and eat it too.

At election time, he talks a lot about being in favor of the right to keep and bear arms – thus convincing some organizations here in Iowa to blindly support him in his reelection efforts.

Then, once safely back in office, Gronstal continues his decades-long policy of blockading almost every single gun bill that is introduced into “his” Senate from ever getting a hearing, much less getting passed out of the State Senate.

Gun Owners in Council Bluffs tell us that often times they don’t even know of the radical actions being taken by their Senator in “far away” Des Moines.

Gronstal knows this.

Gronstal bets on this.

Gronstal has survived on this ignorance for a long time.

That’s why in addition to running these ads on WHO radio in Des Moines, I hope to run these ads on stations all over the Council Bluffs area, including KFAB, KXKT and KGOR – ensuring that EVERY gun owner in Western Iowa is made aware of what Mike Gronstal is doing to shut down Stand-Your-Ground law in Des Moines.

Can you help us?

So many of you have already done so much to help us with the ads that we ran on Judiciary Chairman Steve Sodders.

In fact, your response was simply humbling. But we can’t stop now.

Mike Gronstal is the one who controls the puppet strings in the State Senate, and it is essential that gun owners in HIS district know what he is doing right now to shut down Stand-Your-Ground law.

The good news is that the average cost of these ads is only $41.10

So if you can help keep these ads on the air, for just $41.10, please do so now!


For $41.10 you can play a direct role in stopping Mike Gronstal’s history of blockading your Second Amendment rights.

For $123.30 you can personally ensure that 3 of these ads run across the state.

For $205.50 you can have the satisfaction of knowing that you have reached out to gun owners all the way from Cedar Rapids to the Missouri River, letting them know exactly what Senator Gronstal is trying to keep secret in Des Moines.

And for $411.00 you can fund 10 of these crucial spots, ensuring that tens of thousands of gun owners are mobilized into this fight!


Whatever amount you choose to give is totally up to you.

Every penny that you give, however, is going immediately to help fund these crucial ads.

Sometimes you may wonder what, exactly, is being done with the resources that you generously bestow upon us. Dozens of anti-gun legislators can tell you, first hand, how those resources are expended at election time.

But in this particular instance, you can have the immediate satisfaction of knowing that you are personally responsible for airing the ads that will be heard by thousands of people.

I don’t want to meet any more Jay R. Lewis’ in my office.

Jay Lewis, the gun owner who was forced to defend himself in Des Moines in 2012, wrongfully spent 112 days in jail as an innocent man after being forced to defend himself with a firearm.

While he eventually emerged from jail a free man, his life was in shambles as he lost his job, his apartment, and every single piece of his personal property, except for the clothes that he was arrested in.

He sat in our office a broken man.

IGO members came to his aid, to be sure, but that shouldn’t happen to anybody – Republican, Democrat, or Independent.

For Mike Gronstal, sadly, the Second Amendment is all about what benefits him and his political party.

The innocent Iowan victims who are harmed by his deliberate inaction mean nothing to him.

(IGO’S Aaron Dorr, at right, with Jay R. Lewis in the Iowa State Capitol in 2012, fighting for Stand-Your-Ground law.)

Iowa needs Stand-Your-Ground law.

Illinois has it.

South Dakota has it.

Dozens of states have it.

Now it’s Iowa’s turn, and Mike Gronstal’s long history of blockading pro-gun bills needs to end.

So please help us keep these ads running on the radio all across Iowa.


24 votes. We have 24 votes on this bill right now. We just need 2 more.

Help us do it!

Thank you in advance, for whatever you can do.

For Freedom,

Aaron Dorr
Executive Director

P.S. Despite the fact that dozens of states already have Stand-Your-Ground law, and that 24 members of the Iowa State Senate have already cosponsored Senate File 137, Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal seems determined to keep this bill from coming up for a vote.

Gronstal has done this for years. Many organizations are afraid to confront him.

But this is Iowa Gun Owners, which is why, just moments ago, we kicked off a another round of state-wide radio ads - this time highlighting Gronstal and his refusal to support your 2nd Amendment rights.

I think you’ll like the ad.


For $41.10, you can keep these ads on the air. For $123.30 you can run 3 of these spots, for $205.50 thousands of people across the state will be mobilized to this fight.

And for $411 you can have the personal satisfaction of knowing that you have alerted tens of thousands of Iowans to the obstructionist policies of Iowa’s ranking tyrant, Mike Gronstal.

Thank you, in advance, for all that you do to fight for our second amendment rights here in Iowa.

I'm curious, has anyone heard one of these radio ads that they are attempting to get people to pay for?

If so what was your take on them? I scanned WHO while driving to and from work but didn't hear any of them.

the reason you haven't heard them.  Is because people like you haven't given them 411 dollars yet.

Buying too many ads would cut funding for trucks, offices, salaries, or whatever they currently spend it on.

Well, I feel like I've completed a right of passing.  I posted a comment in regards to their latest derp video on stand your ground.  Deleted as soon as you disagree with them.  So stupid and sad.  

Now let's get this Senate bill through!!!!

Hey, a shout out from Colorado to my brothers in Iowa!  The following are my opinions based on my personal observations and experiences.

Let me apologize in advance for our unintentional export of douchebaggery to the rest of the country in the form of NAGR (National Association of Gun Rights) and the affiliated state level organizations cut from the same cloth.  I'm pretty confident all of these things are metastases of Dudley Brown's RMGO (Rocky Mountain Gun Owners).  After Brown discovered Paramount Communication Group marketing engines as a way to build a money machine for NAGR, it has all gone nationwide.  The M.O. is always the same: position themselves as the true gun rights lobby and the only no-compromise game in town (as if that's smart or something).  Spread unsubstantiated FUD wherever possible. Put down every other gun rights organization (the fundraising competition) like GOA, NRA, SAF, etc..  Those emails you guys get from IGO are virtually identical in every respect to the ones I get from RMGO because I was stupid enough to donate to them and actually become a member many years ago.  They never forget you.

Sorry to have to split the post.  Guess I don't post often enough even though I joined in 2004 so I'm still "new".

These organizations Dudley Brown has spun off make money pitching us poor slobs with little if anything to show for it legislatively except alienated legislative advocates for our side.  I understand the resentment you all feel about them taking credit for the work of others.  I resent them for torpedoing "half-a-loaf" bills as if we could never come back for the rest later.   In Colorado, they have apparently cost us a bill doubling of the mag limits to 30 by threatening GOP legislators with direct mail skullduggery if they supported it.
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1744257_Colorado_increase_on_mag_limits__from_15_to_30__fails__Thanks__Dudley_Brown_and_NAGR.html&page=1

Here are the latest filings I can find.  They're from 2013.  I'm pretty sure the revenues are way up over these numbers now.

IGO:
IGO raked in $293K in 2013. Salaries were minimal or time donated.  Nothing was spent on lobbying, $99K on direct mail and postage, 31K on telemarketing, $28K on training, $14K on email, and $23K on advertising and self promotion, etc
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=264110647#.VYh9UlVVhBc
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/264/264110647/264110647_201312_990O.pdf

Here's the rest.

NAGR raked in over $16 million in 2013. Dudley’s salary was $94,217 for 35 hrs/wk and he only spent $1.4M on lobbying.  $6M was on direct mail, $3.2M was on email, $344K on telemarketing and $334K on “Tour Promotion", etc.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=542015951#.VW5CJGRVhBc
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/841/841368137/841368137_201312_990O.pdf


RMGO raked in $916K in 2013.  Dudley’s salary was $48,000 for 20 hrs/wk.  He spent $42K on lobbying, 133K on direct mail, 31K on telemarketing, $28K on training, $22K on email, and $291K on advertising and self promotion, etc.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=841368137#.VW5Fk2RVhBc
http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/542/542015951/542015951_201312_990O.pdf

Wow, muzzleflash great information there, thank you!  We'll look into that and it will be used against them.  Iowans are starting to realize they're a fraud,  and we've been spreading the word on The Truth About IGO's Facebook and website.  We appreciate your help!

Thanks for all that info, I'm sure it was a pain to dig it all up.

Regarding GOA, though: I haven't seen IGO denigrate them at all. Does NAGR/RMGO?   I talked with Larry Pratt (GOA's exec. director), and he said that he fully supports both Aaron Dorr personally and  IGO as an organization, even though I brought up the issues IGO is causing here, plus the Sorenson campaign fraud debacle.
Larry said, in these exact words:

I responded that I would be canceling my supporting of GOA, and spreading the word that they support scamming anti-progress fund-raisers.

That leaves about 126,000 to play around with. Pretty good haul for a few youtube videos and a bunch of panic-mail/email. Unless they count the time spent on that those the above numbers, in which case it's even more.

Interesting response from GOA.  I didn't figure they would want to be associated with such.

IGO's favorite senator shows character:

http://www.kcci.com/news/former-sen-kent-sorenson-in-trouble-with-law-again/34279510

Let's not resort to ad-hominum attacks. plenty of other stuff IGO does that is horrible, and it sounds like there is a lot more (or less) to this specific story than is being reported.

an attack is now defined as a link to the continual fuck ups of a guy that represented iowans, citizens, 2A advocates, as well as purposely working against all of us for his own gain while publicly claiming he was working on our behalf?  that is an attack?

if you feel sorry for him, that's fine.  i do not.  i know first hand just how much damage he did to our forward movement regarding 2A rights alone, to simply line his pockets and rise in status.

he has a propensity for domestic squabbles, smoking the mary jo anna, and other examples of asshattery all while waiting sentencing from the feds, and my pointing it out his character and alignment to IGO is an attack how andrew?