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BainsBane (33,731 posts)"How the National Rifle Association helped get Bernie Sanders elected"http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-nra-helped-put-bernie-sanders-in-congress/2015/07/19/ed1be26c-2bfe-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.htmlA few days before Election Day in 1990, the National Rifle Association sent a letter to its 12,000 members in Vermont, with an urgent message about the race for the state’s single House seat.Vote for the socialist, the gun rights group said. It’s important....That campaign also marked the beginning of Sanders’s complicated relationship with the Âissue of gun rights — the one area where Sanders’s Democratic presidential rivals have been able to attack him from the left.Peter Smith, Sanders opponent, targeted by the NRA:Just a few months before, as a candidate, Smith had promised to oppose new forms of gun control. That’s why the NRA had supported him. And the NRA support was a major reason why he had won in Vermont, where guns are associated with hunting moose and deer and not committing crimes.But to the freshman congressman, all that didn’t seem to matter as much now.“I’ll never forget, brushing my teeth, looking in the mirror in my bathroom and realizing, as clear as day, I’m going to have to look at this face for the rest of my life in the mirror, and I want to be proud of the person I see,†Smith said. “I went back and looked up the gun bills.â€Smith found a bill to ban the sale of some assault weapons. He signed on as co-sponsor. . .As a candidate in 1990, Sanders won over gun rights groups by promising to oppose one bill they hated — a measure that would establish a waiting period for handgun sales. In Congress, he kept that promise. The dynamic served as an early demonstration that, despite his pure-leftist persona, Sanders was at his core a pragmatic politician, calculating that he couldn’t win in rural Vermont without doing something for gun owners.Instead of talking about guns, then, Sanders talked about honesty.“Unlike some people, I won’t change my views on the subject,†he told one pro-gun group.It worked.Sanders won 56-40. He had lost eight prior elections for federal office, but in 1990 he won his first seat in DC.
Talk about poop flinging monkeys. Jugs is not getting a lot of love.
bobclark86 (1,414 posts) 71. A hell of a lot more Americans...die from firearms in a year than in a decade of Iraq and Afghanistan.
She knows where to go to get some.
Frank, your squeeze is getting micro-aggressed big time.
