"Sorry to be crass, but we have the motherfucking receipts." Bess Kalb (Kimmel writer)

[DemoTex]

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bess-kalb-nra-tweets_us_5a84ee69e4b0058d5565cbac

God have mercy on your NRA-kept souls:

Richard Burr
$6,986,620

Roy Blunt
$4,551,146

Thom Tillis
$4,418,012

Cory Gardner
$3,879,064

Marco Rubio
$3,303,355

Joni Ernst
$3,124,273

Rob Portman
$3,061,941

Todd Young
$2,896,732

Bill Cassidy
$2,861,047

[gratuitous]

1. {Gasp!} She said a swear! She said a swear!

And that's Hitler to the power of Stalin times worse than more than a dozen corpses. Let us all now succumb to the vapors.

[Soxfan58]

4. She defiantly used the wrong words

It should be "gun lobby fuckers"

[Bernardo de La Paz]

31. I think you meant to write "definitely used the wrong words". . . . nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

42. but "defiantly" works too

As in defying conventional restrictions on some words.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. Except that is clearly not what the poster was saying.

The poster substituted a different target, did not address conventional restrictions, and used neither more nor less profanity.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

44. you are correct

I was just remarking on the "title", not attempting to argue or dispute your correction.

Your correction applies perfectly to the overall intent, based on the message posted.

Kalb's "crass" use of "motherfucking" was defiant, so considering only the title of the post, "defiantly" fits. That was all I meant. No offense intended.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. No problem. I agree, we must be defiant in the face of the NRA. . . . nt

[OnlinePoker]

23. This reminds me of the controversy in the movie Kick Ass

An 11 year old (Hit Girl) shows psychopathic delight in slaughtering bad guys in some pretty gruesome ways, but the uproar was about her using the C-word (female anatomy). America's prudish obsession with language and the physical body while glorifying mass violence baffles me.

[SamKnause]

2. Nothing crass about the truth.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Um, no. God wreak justice on your bloodstained souls. Mercy is uncalled for. nt

[yardwork]

5. That $7M to Richard Burr also helped deliver N.C. to Trump.

My state was full of NRA lies in 2016.

People who believed them should be ASHAMED.

[NCDawg]

10. Lest we forget,...

Lil Thommy, who ROYALLY FUBARED the NC Legislature before taking his side show to DC....

And we also have trifecta of Ignorance, Lies and Hypocrisy with Pittenger, McHenry and Meadows!!!

NC did MORE than their fair share in bringing Cheeto Tweetler to the Beltway!!!

[yardwork]

25. And I see that Thom also got millions from NRA.

This explains a lot.

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[lagomorph777]

6. #NRAROUBLES

Throw the assholes out and dismantle the NRA.

Raid the NRA headquarters in Virginia and grab every computer, filing cabinet, and safe full of #NRAROUBLES.

[pandr32]

7. I totally agree

[Augiedog]

8. And the list goes on...........

[ffr]

9. Follow the money and you'll find a corrupt conservative. n/t

[moonseller66]

11. Instead of money...

maybe the NRA should just give the politicians guns. Then they could distribute them to their constituents.

On second thought, the next time your community has a "gun trade-in", make sure the guns can't be fixed then deliver them all to your local republican's office or home and just dump them there. Maybe they'll recycle them for the NRA.

[dlk]

12. We Now Know the Republican Dollar Amount for Human Life

After a certain dollar amount, Republicans deem human life worthless, as they have demonstrated, time and time again. Words, such as "thoughts and prayers" become outright cynical and cruel when not followed up with meaningful action.

[moonseller66]

14. Better yet...

Someone needs to make a public example to Ryan. Present him at a public ceremony with any of the weapons that were used in these shootings. Bet ya cash he runs away.

[Ligyron]

15. I believe this approach could be very effective.

Every time a GOP congress critter pops his head up - put his price tag up too.

[leanforward]

16. BLOOD MONEY

Thanks to Bess and anyone else digging up exact amounts. I had to add this up.

$35,022,190.00 is a lot of money. Nine Senators, elected to serve the people. These folks did a disservice to the people/kids at the high school.

These amounts of money explain the lack of public denunciation of the NRA (New Russian Association). The overall silence in the Senate. And, the NRA has bought the silence of the House of Representatives. The NRA money was spread across the house to lesser amounts. Lower costs in less populated markets areas.

I wonder if there is any data/information concerning NRA contributions to the respective house members.

Nine members of the senate or 9% were bought for $35 MILLION. I imagine the house majority were bought for $15 million.

[B Stieg]

17. and Rubio ($3.3m) is already earning his NRA money

http://www.newsweek.com/florida-school-shooting-nra-ally-marco-rubio-doesnt-want-jump-conclusions-over-807897

[keithbvadu2]

18. To the gun industry, dead children are acceptable losses for the sake of profits.

[Sophia4]

19. 2013 Gun death rates (2013 because that is what I found on Wikipedia) per state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_death_rates_in_the_United_States_by_state

I recommend that everyone go too Wikipedia or elsewhere and check the numbers on gun deaths per 100,000 people. Some states are much, much worse than the states represented by the senators listed in the original post in this thread.

Richard Burr -- North Carolina -- 12.42 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.burr.senate.gov/

Roy Blunt -- Missouri -- 14.56 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.blunt.senate.gov/public/

Thom Tills -- North Carolina -- 12.42 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.tillis.senate.gov/public/

Cory Gardner -- Colorado -- 11.75 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.gardner.senate.gov/

Marco Rubio -- Florida -- 12.49 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/

Jodi Ernst -- Iowa -- 8.19 gun deaths deaths per 100,000 people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joni_Ernst

Rob Portman -- Ohio -- 11.14 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.portman.senate.gov/public/

Todd Young -- Indiana -- 13.04 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.young.senate.gov/

Bill Cassidy -- Louisiana -- 19.15 gun deaths per 100,000 people

https://www.google.com/search?q=bill+cassidy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1

[SunSeeker]

20. K & R

[spanone]

21. time to expose the child killers

[moondust]

22. Death Lobby rulez!!!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

24. Those are millions of dollars? Whoa!

Roy Blunt?

Please tell me this is true.

[SDJay]

26. They Ought To

allow folks to carry to these fuckers' town halls and rallies or other public appearances. After all, they're just good guys with guns, right?

See how fast they cower. Fucking cowards. They're for sale like any piece of property. Dead kids? So what... I got a bunch of money.

How is that anything but evil?

[onecaliberal]

27. Not to mention more than 20 million in the dump campaign.

[druidity33]

28. uncomfortable questions here...

How many Democrats took money from the NRA? What do we do about that? It's a blue dog Dem dilemma... How many Reps do we have in otherwise Red State areas where an opposition to Automatic weapons could lose them an election? How much should that matter? At what point will we get to a stage where this will matter to Republican gun owners?

[Gabi Hayes]

36. Thanks for your concern! Do you really wanna go there?

There you go!



https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/totals.php?id=d000000082&cycle=2014

From WAPO
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/02/15/52-senators-have-an-a-minus-nra-rating-or-higher-including-four-democrats/?utm_term=.a32bad8b58c3

Most members of the Democratic caucus have F grades, as you might expect. But nine of the 49 Democratic and independent senators have grades above F, including four — Sens. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) — who have grades of A-minus or higher. Those senators represent four states that consistently vote Republican, so it’s perhaps not surprising that they’d have better NRA scores than their peers. All four were in the Senate when it considered compromise legislation on expanding background checks after the massacre at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, but only Heitkamp opposed the effort. (Manchin was a co-sponsor.)

, indeed

[druidity33]

38. Good info, thanks...

The numbers are actually better than i expected. And the graphic is impressive! Cheers.

K&R

[DFW]

29. I'm surprised Joni Ernst got that much.

THREE million? What is the point of giving three of anything to someone who can't count that high?

[Ken Burch]

30. Joni can castrate a LOT of hogs for $3,124,273

[Farmer-Rick]

32. Just look at all that Russian money sloshing around the NRA

All of it going to politicians and criminals and you got to wonder how much are those Russian Trolls and bot creators getting for doing all their dirty work? I bet they aren't making very much at all.

[Gabi Hayes]

35. Ask, and ye shall receive

https://www.thetrace.org/2018/01/nra-russia-timeline/

[Farmer-Rick]

40. Thanks for the link

It really does make clear how the NRA has been infiltrated by Putin spies and money.

It's very interesting reading but it doesn't give me a Russian Troll's salary or bot hacker/programmer fee. You know they aren't getting paid their true worth

You would think one of them would want in on some NRA style pay back?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. Why no...it's just Democrats politicizing !!!

We just love it... can't wait for people.. especially young ones to die..gives us the opportunity to achieve our mission to take guns away from "law abiding citizens" #absurd

[Gabi Hayes]

41. Cruz was talked into it by his girlfriend

True!

[Hassler]

34. Throw their words in their faces...

Killers of the Culture of Death.

[Cha]

37. It's about time these Receipts

came out.. plastered all over the country.

Thank you, Bess Kalb!

[pressbox69]

39. The price of swine.