Yes, the headline is inflammatory. I did that on purpose, because how many times have NRA-backed candidates been accused of being bought and paid for, all because they're standing for the Constitution?
But there's also a little truth to it, too. A one-time anti-gun activist running for office getting financial support from a gun control group, and you're going to tell me they're open to the facts surrounding bills?
Sure.
And how much are we talking here? At least $10 million being spent to elect at least gun control activists.
“Scoop: Gun control group gives Dems a $10 million midterm assist,” Axios reported Tuesday. “Everytown for Gun Safety, a group that advocates for stricter gun laws, is teaming up with House Democrats on a $10 million ad campaign to boost former gun safety advocates now running for Congress.”
“The candidates boosted by the campaign are all former volunteers for Moms Demand Action,” the report elaborates, identifying them as:
JoAnna Mendoza of Arizona, Pia Dandiya of Florida, Christina Bohannan, Sarah Trone Garriott and Lindsay James of Iowa, Christina Hines and Rep. Kristen McDonald Rivet of Michigan, and Paige Cognetti of Pennsylvania.
That they’re all Moms Demand endorsees certainly should tell right to keep and bear arms advocates everything they need to know. What’s interesting, though, is all the other issues Everytown, seeded by billionaire (and presumptive Republican) Michael Bloomberg are willing to enable, all in the name of gutting the Second Amendment.
So, they’re evidently unconcerned about the radical lurch leftward the Democrat Party is taking while its old guard is being challenged – and in some cases replaced – by overt socialists bent on imposing radical changes on more than guns. And there’s more: In case after case, the prohibitionists have backed “candidates of distinction” who certainly are distinct from the mainstream – but as long as they’re against guns, they get the nod.
To be fair, that's probably what a single-issue group should be concerned about. It doesn't make them tremendous hypocrites, though.
To be clear, they're throwing this money into the race as a private entity, not making illegal donations (so far as we're aware, anyway). This is all above board legally speaking, at least so far as I understand campaign finance laws, but again, they're hypocrites.
See, every pro-gun lawmaker is accused of being bought and paid for by the so-called gun lobby, and their defense of this is that they receive donations from groups like the National Shooting Sports Foundation or the National Rifle Association.
Meanwhile, they'll drop money like there's no tomorrow to back their own bunch.
Moreover, they also seem to be engaging in a very loose association with the truth in some of these instances, such as with Paige Cognetti. But hey, it's politics, right? Who cares about "truth," anyway? Am I right?
Cam beat that particular horse already, so I'm not going to join in here.
What I will say is that if you're going to engage in the exact same behavior that you've routinely blasted your opponents for, you should probably make a choice. Stop doing it or learn to keep your hotdog holster closed.
Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their extreme gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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