In Minnesota, a “politically motivated assassination”: but why?
A vile act in Minnesota:
Vance Luther Boelter is accused of killing [Rep. Melissa Hortman] and her husband and seriously wounding Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman and his wife. Both Hoffman and his wife have had surgery and are expected to recover. Boelter reportedly impersonated a police officer when he attacked Hoffman and his wife at their home in Champlin, leaving them critically injured before proceeding to Hortman’s residence.
This seems to have been an obviously premeditated hit job:
According to records, Governor Walz appointed Boelter in 2019 to serve a four-year term on the Governor’s Workforce Development Board. During Governor Mark Dayton’s administration, he was a member of the Governor’s Workforce Development Council in 2016. Authorities discovered flyers with the phrase “No Kings” in his car, referencing the protests planned for Saturday against the Trump administration. They also found a manifesto and a list containing the names of other politicians and abortion clinics.
How many were on the list? Seventy, according to this article. Another article – which I can’t find at the moment – mentioned that the list contained members of both parties. Police aren’t yet describing what his manifesto said. They’re looking for Boelter, who is at large.
More on Boeltner, who seems to be a mystery man:
At various times, Vance Luther Boelter has claimed to work in the food service industry. In other moments, he’s claimed he runs large firms involved with “security situations” overseas, including Africa, Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
His past is as mysterious as his whereabouts. …
David Carlson, 59, told Reuters that he has been sharing a house in Minneapolis with Boelter for a little more than a year and last saw him on Friday night. Then about 6 a.m. on Saturday, he received a text from Boelter.
“He said that he might be dead soon,” said Carlson, who called police.
Carlson, who has known Boelter since fourth grade, said Boelter worked for an eye donation center and stayed at the house because it was close to his job. Carlson said he feels betrayed by Boelter and heartbroken for the victims, adding: “His family has got to suffer through this.” …
Online, Boelter presented himself as a security expert who had also worked for global companies.
More at the link. As far as Walz’s appointment of Boelter to the Governor’s Workforce Development Board. I think that’s not especially meaningful:
A spokesperson for Walz said the governor’s office appoints thousands of people of all parties to boards and commissions. The workforce development board has over 60 people on it.
They are unpaid, external boards created by the legislature, and Walz doesn’t interview applicants, the spokesperson said. They aren’t appointments to a position in the governor’s cabinet, the spokesperson said.
My guess is that he has had a series of loosely related beefs with a number of politicians, or with politicians in general, and that he’s got some mental problems. He might not be affiliated with either major party. This seems to be the pattern lately for a lot of people drawn to political violence. I hope the authorities find him soon, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s already killed himself or kills himself as they close in on him.
I also surmise that the shooter/killer is dead by his own hand , which explains why he has not been found despite what must be a massive manhunt. (Funny how the speech police haven’t objected to the obviously sexist term, “manhunt,” demanding it be replaced by “personhunt” or some such thing. Tells you all you need to know.) At any rate, it appears that this fugitive from justice is a regular Rorschach Test of humankind: people look at him and see precisely what they want to see. He’s a pro-Trump, anti-abortion, “No Kings” advocate, who works in private security as well as food service, runs mysterious foreign businesses in Africa and the Middle East but currently worked at an “eye donation center”, holds appointed positions in the Walz government and most mysterious of all, is married with a family but shared a house with some random guy who sobbingly tells media he’s a rabid Trump supporter while the authorities tell us they found a “manifesto” and a hit list of seventy politicians. Another Lee Harvey Oswald, who was former military, simultaneously pro-communist and right-wing assassin or patsy, whichever suits your particular narrative-of-choice. Bottom line is they both share one trait in common: crazy. And always remember, boys and girls, as Stacey (The Other) McCain has told us time and time again, “Crazy people are dangerous.”
He exercised liberal license to entertain abortive ideation following progressive principles with affirmative action by a king/queen that may have concluded with a selfie-abortion, a wicked solution, his final Choice.
Politically motivated, oriented, or coincident?
Could be when aid money dried up contracting went light
Didnt they pull this secret trump supporter routine with routh
The fact they arent releasing the entire manifesto is the tell
How could they identify him with that weird mask on him
Looked like bryan cranston sans hair
A spokesperson for Walz said the governor’s office appoints thousands of people of all parties to boards and commissions. The workforce development board has over 60 people on it.
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I assume the ‘thousands’ is a ten-fold exaggeration. Either way, it’s another argument for sunset legislation (and for the proposition that there’s not much to be said for state legislators). A passably ordered state government should have about fifteen boards and commissions (if that); they should have about 100 members in sum and the governor should make about 25 appointments per year to them with the floor leaders in the legislature making another ten or so. A board that has 60 members is a board that does not function and was not meant to function.
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His wife was once an intern in Walz’ office. I’ll wager that’s how he ended up with this minor dollop of patronage.
I suspect he’s a Walter Mitty character with a very ordinary life and some eccentric hobbies.
Media is trying to paint Vance Boelter as a Republican now. Yeah, I’m sure Walz is such a standout bipartisan that he’d appoint Republicans to places in his administration.
“…Detained with Weapon, Ammunition, Cash, Passports
“The wife of Vance Luther Boelter, Jennifer Boelter, was detained by police for questioning after a traffic stop late Saturday morning near Onamia, Minnesota.
https://instapundit.com/726205/
Thats not suspicious at all
The leftys yesterday posted that the shooter was an example of “more MAGA terrorism!” I responded with a paragraph quote from msnbc, nonetheless, which stated about his appointment by Walz and the “No Kings” flyers in his car. I was called a disgusting liar. I guess msnbc isn’t a reliable source for the left anymore.
well they are still certifiable,
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1934123268664860829
just means you’re over the target,
Related?
David Mamet’s GUT punch…
“The Mamet Theory of Everything;
“REVIEW: ‘The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment’ …”
https://freebeacon.com/culture/the-mamet-theory-of-everything/
H/T Powerline blog.
Wow, this terrible man appears to be a wanna-be, super skilled, operator in the armed guard, security business with a polished up website and a lot of photo shop on his vehicle which does look like a police vehicle. His wife, who was the CEO of the security company, was also driving an suv similar in shape when she was pulled over early today. Jenny, the wife had passports, cash (how much it doesn’t say) and a weapon and that seems a bit suspicious. This whole thing seems to be a case of super, weapon’s grade, mental illness with a fabricated blown up public live and position by a man who has run a 7-11 and a gas station before he was on the advisory board. Now he claims he has a doctorate from a college that no longer exists on his website. https://www.pguards.net/
More information will come out in the next few days about this guy and the left will try to make him a conservative but they will probably find out he has a history of being delusional and dysfunctional and now very dangerous. Vance Luther Boelter is a mess who needs to be found and come to justice and I hope he does not crawl off into the Minnesota North woods and kill himself where he can’t be found to bring this terrible killing spree to a conclusion.
“I assume the ‘thousands’ is a ten-fold exaggeration. Either way, it’s another argument for sunset legislation (and for the proposition that there’s not much to be said for state legislators). A passably ordered state government should have about fifteen boards and commissions (if that); they should have about 100 members in sum and the governor should make about 25 appointments per year to them with the floor leaders in the legislature making another ten or so. A board that has 60 members is a board that does not function and was not meant to function.” — Art Deco
Exactly. I don’t know if it’s literally thousands of places, though it wouldn’t shock me. A lot of these ‘boards’ are just meaningless titles made available to hand out to election workers and party supporters and the like. They’re usually unpaid, and they occasionally come in useful as something to blame if something goes wrong or otherwise they need an excuse for something.
This whole ‘protest’ movement is turning into a PR _catastrophe_ for the Left. You can tell that they know it by the tone and tenor of the news coverage (Stelter wailing that people are seeing videos that are ‘hours old’, for ex, as if that was somehow relevant, or the claims that people were just ‘peacefully’ burning cars). What polling data (admittedly polling as its own problems) suggests the same thing.
Even so, they keep pressing forward. The Left could make these protests go away, or at least shrink radically, by stopping the flow of money and support, but they don’t even in the face of a PR disaster.
Which tells us just how utterly desperate they are to stop Trump from changing the immigration dynamics. The prospect of that is a metaphorical knife to the Democrats’ and the organized Left’s metaphorical throats. They _must_ stop it, from their POV. The next census is only 5 years away.
Ditto quite a few business interests and some liberal/establishment Republicans, though for different reasons and for them it’s not so much an existential threat to their status and power as a threat to the revenue streams.
HC68,
Maybe immigration is the key dynamic for the upper level leadership, but for the leftist everyday folk I know they are driven by one thing only: pure, unadulterated hatred of Trump. It takes over all their interpretation of everything in the news. As I pointed out above, even if presented with contrary evidence from the left media, they don’t believe it.
And it seems to be getting worse, if that’s possible.
“pure, unadulterated hatred of Trump”
Because he stole their lunch money and they are too arrogant and ideologically blinkered to want to understand how he did it. Trump won two presidential elections, and possibly a third, by taking away the Dems’ blue collar base that they were taking for granted. At first mostly white but now POC are also fleeing the party – Hispanics, Asians, even some blacks.
I recall an incident from just after the 2016 election that has always stuck with me though it seems minor. Joe Kennedy III addressed a Dem rally or meeting and made a simple, obvious observation – “We need to understand why so many former Democrats voted for Trump”. He was booed heavily. Because the hard leftists who by then (for quite a while) dominated the party never admit to error in their heads-I-win-tails-you-lose world of political “analysis”.
If I’m not mistaken, the Democrats’ post mortem and in-depth analysis oh-so-wisely came to the conclusion that they just weren’t sufficiently insane, dishonest, puerile, hateful or violent…and that they gotta do better—much better—since…the country they intend to destroy is in DIRE NEED of the kind of leadership…which only they can provide…
Gonna be a long summer…and beyond.
so much like the zombies in 28 years later, that disturbing kipling rhyme suggests itself, (from the boer war, which was a more civilized engagement) than what came late
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/north-carolina-state-rep-waves-trumps-decaptitated-head/
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1933985212284703031r,
somewhat amusing, except when they go bezerk, or amok pick your poison,
Would be nice to care about things for themselves, rather than by how readily we can shoehorn them into a Team Red vs Team Blue narrative.
It has been known for people to go nuts and kill or try to kill politicians, often for reasons unrelated to or only distantly related to current politics.
it would be nice if they didn’t gaslight us, but there are too many signposts up ahead, to really buy their story, now the motive still seems weak, the first targets look pretty reasonable as opposed to the next on the list,
https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/us-news/mayor-adams-blasted-for-hosting-antisemitic-influencer-sneako-at-gracie-mansion/ still the most reasonable candidate in this mixed up
island of misfit toys, but he still puts his foot in his mouth,
just phoning it in
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/06/15/jonathan-chait-claims-no-kings-day-protests-have-been-successful-n2414284
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
I was skeptical at first, but the No Kings rally worked.
I woke up this morning and my country still has no king.
Good job, everyone!
I’m a native Minnesotan, resident of first ring Minneapolis suburb. The deceased legislator is the only Dem to vote in favor of the budget bill here last week, which she negotiated for the Dems. She spoke afterwards of regret, primarily because it denies free healthcare to illegals. She pissed off the far left with that, I suspect.
My (Dem) state legislator lives three doors away from me. The suburban police has had an officer parked in front of her place since 3:30 AM Saturday morning. One is still there now.
If the leftists can’t kill conservatives they will settle for killing progressives, that might be a tell.
Update:
The guy’s a kook. A total fraud…
“Minn. shooting suspect Vance Boelter ran bogus security company and faced ‘struggles’ after prolonged stint in Africa, roommate says”—
https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/us-news/minn-shooting-suspect-vance-boelter-ran-bogus-security-company-and-faced-struggles-after-prolonged-stint-in-africa-roommate-says/
“HC68,
Maybe immigration is the key dynamic for the upper level leadership,” — physicsguy
Yeah, that’s who I was talking about, the leadership, the Party leaders, the heads of the ‘groups’, the ones who actually make the decisions. I guarantee you they are looking at the potential impact of Trump’s immigration actions and sweating.
The rank and file…yeah, they hate. They hate hard. Their leadership stokes it intentionally.
The thing is that leftism, fundamentally, is a _religion_. Or at least, it fulfils for some hard-core ‘progressives’ the role the religion does for most people. Which is why hatred comes so readily to them, they’re forced to see opposition, more or less, as Evil. Heresy.
Not all Democrats think like that, of course. But a lot of the hard-core progressives do.
Captured alive, it says here: https://nypost.com/2025/06/15/us-news/minnesota-suspected-assassin-vance-luther-boelter-captured-by-police-after-allegedly-killing-rep-hortman-and-injuring-sen-hoffman/
Thanks for the good news, sdferr.
It is reported that he has been charged with Second Degree Murder and Second Degree Attempted Murder.
MANHUNT OVER: Suspect in Minnesota Lawmaker Shooting Apprehended, Charged With 2nd Degree Murder
https://redstate.com
The vagaries of criminal procedure in various jurisdictions perplex me. Since premeditation is manifest, I would think the complaint / information / indictment would be for two counts of 1st degree murder, two counts of attempted murder, one count of criminal impersonation, and conceivably other counts for weapons offenses, burglary, and assaulting a public official. In a sensible jurisdiction, the sum of the first four counts would mean an automatic capital sentence. (Of course, Minnesota is the state which prosecuted four innocent police officers for being present when George Floyd expired from a fentanyl overdose and the jurisdiction which incarcerated Mohammed Noor for all of three years for fatally shooting Justine Ruszczyk a propos of nothing in particular).
I’m pretty sure that the answer to your question is the Governor (Walz) and the State AG (Ellison)…and the generally gruesome tone (at least WRT LE) that pervades the whole apparatus.