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Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 12:21 PM Jan 2016

Looks like Hillary & Democrats got Bernie to flip flop

Bernie Sanders agreed Thursday to cosponsor a bill repealing a 2005 law that shields gun businesses from civil liability, but the presidential candidate continues to offer dubious explanations for his past support for the measure.

Sanders’s about-face on the issue won’t help the bill — which is already sponsored by Connecticut Democratic Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal — overcome Republican opposition in this Congress. What it might do, he hopes, is diffuse months of rival Hillary Clinton’s attacks on his gun record. The former Secretary of State has used Sanders’s past support for giving gun businesses immunity to raise doubts about his liberal bona fides among Democratic primary voters who are largely aligned in support of stronger gun laws: A New York Times-CBS poll this month found that 82 percent of Democrats support stronger gun restrictions, up from 70 percent of Democrats who said they backed stricter laws in December 2013.

Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, described Sanders’s move as “proof of what can happen when the public holds politicians accountable — which is happening on the gun violence prevention issue like never before.”

http://www.thetrace.org/2016/01/bernie-sanders-voting-record-guns/

He had to rush back to campaign from the well of the Senate.

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Cha

(297,154 posts)
17. And, him losing to Hillary on Sensible Gun Laws? What!? mr never changes his mind.. always
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 02:20 AM
Jan 2016

"consistent"? Except when it's expedient.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. There goes flip flopping Bernie
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 12:24 PM
Jan 2016

with his thumb up in the air, testing the wind on his way back home to Camp Weathervane!!!!

I'm sure this will get alot of play in GD: Primaries!!

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. His voting record stands, does not change, good to see he has introduced a bill
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 12:38 PM
Jan 2016

to reverse the past law, probably will die before it gets through committees. This bill does not bring back lives killed by gun violence.

Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
5. This is a law that will never be considered by this Congress. It isn't worth soiled toilet paper.
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 12:57 PM
Jan 2016

I don't believe he really means the change, but he is clever enough to use this flip flop to paper over his vote for Corporate Welfare.

I detest this use of his office to create campaign propaganda. Republicans do this all the time, and when they do I call it corruption.

Good try, Senators Sanders, but we got you.

Cha

(297,154 posts)
6. That's not "consistent".. one of their buzz words. Welcome to the right side of that particular
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 12:58 PM
Jan 2016

gun issue, berni.. finally. Hillary made you do it.. see how powerful she is.

Mahalo Historic NY

SunSeeker

(51,550 posts)
8. And yet he still won't admit his vote for the PLCAA was a mistake.
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 02:06 PM
Jan 2016

Some ego he's got, can't say the m-word.

FloridaBlues

(4,008 posts)
11. There's a bill already written and co sponsored
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 05:50 PM
Jan 2016

Can you just add your name to co sponsor if it has co sponsors already?

riversedge

(70,191 posts)
19. When a Senator co-sponsers a bill--they are suspose to help force
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 07:50 AM
Jan 2016

the bill--be active --publicly advocate for bill--get other Senators on board--etc.

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