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CNS on elections and firearms issues
Posted by David Hardy · 10 November 2006 08:15 AM
A short story on the take from both sides.
My own input: apart from the Clinton years, over the past three decades, the question has been which side gets to be ignored/betrayed by Congress. Somewhere in my files I have the copies of the Carter-era memos where Treasury is telling the White House somebody has to tell the antigun groups that we aren't gonna lift a finger, and that has to come from someone of higher rank than me. Then of course we had Reagan, and the Firearm Owners' Protection Act went thru ... uh, after *six years* of waiting, and with the MG ban attached.
>>"In races where the Brady Campaign endorsed candidates went head-to-head with competing candidates endorsed by the NRA, Brady won 5 of 5 governorships (Patrick in Massachusetts, O'Malley in Maryland, Rendell in Pennsylvania, Doyle in Wisconsin and Blagojevich in Illinois) and 4 of 4 U.S. Senate seats (Cardin in Maryland, Cantwell in Washington, Stabenow in Michigan, and Nelson in Florida).
The Bradyites really are stretching there, as few of those races were actually competitive.
Basically, they're jumping out at the finish line and claiming to have lead the parade.