NRA to spend $15m on ads to defeat Hillary Clinton in key states

[babylonsister]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/16/nra-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-gun-control?CMP=share_btn_fb

NRA to spend $15m on ads to defeat Hillary Clinton in key states

The pro-gun lobbyists’ fear of a Clinton presidency – and a liberal supreme court – has outweighed any unease about Donald Trump’s prior support for gun control

Peter Stone in Washington

Friday 16 September 2016 08.00 EDT
Last modified on Friday 16 September 2016 10.04 EDT



To boost Donald Trump’s prospects of becoming president, the National Rifle Association is poised to pour more than $15m into ads in several battleground states to defeat Hillary Clinton, the most vocal pro-gun-control presidential candidate in years, according to an NRA board member.

The NRA has already plowed almost $6.5m into TV spots in several key states bashing Clinton and one NRA board member told the Guardian that the pro-gun goliath will spend “multiples” of that figure by election day on the presidential contest.

Next week, the NRA is slated to launch another seven-figure round of TV ads in Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Last month, the NRA made a $3m ad buy in these states that branded Clinton as a “hypocrite” for accepting secret service protection, while calling for more gun control, which the ad charged “would leave you defenseless”. An earlier NRA ad buy attacked Clinton on Benghazi.

In 2012, the NRA spent $15m in the hope of making Barack Obama a one-term president, and this year’s spending to defeat Clinton is expected to surpass that sum, according to the board member and another NRA source.

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. Philly just had a big "shoot out" over the weekend

where 1 of 7 innocent bystanders who were shot, was killed, and 2 police officers were wounded (one who had 18 bullets pumped into her police SUV, half of them hitting her). The perp was completely out of his mind as he fired off 51 rounds and had 3 magazines and a bag of live rounds for his glock 9 mm.

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20160917_Police_sergeant_and_a_second_officer_shot__wounded_in_West_Philadelphia.html

THIS is the type of thing that urban dwellers have to deal with when you have someone with these types of handguns who just goes off.

Fuck the NRA.

[a kennedy]

2. Just combining these:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512424739

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. I saw one of their lame ass ads last night.

All about being afraid of...something.

Sirens, cops, emergency vehicles. At the end they say "sponsored by the NRA". Me and hubs cracked up at that point.

[Vogon_Glory]

4. PLEASE, SOMEONE, MENTION THE LAND-GRABBERS TO THE HUNTERS IN THE NRA!!!

I dearly hope that whatever Democratic staffer is in charge of refuting the NRA's attacks would remember that a lot of the Republicans the NRA backs are also guys and gals who are gung-ho for selling off national parks and national forests and thus closing them off to hunters and fishermen. As I recall, not only some of the Tea Party congressional reps in places like Utah have spoken in favor of selling national parks, but the Donnie himself has mentioned the idea at least once.

I realize that many progressives have little in common with hunters and fishermen. But those of us environmentalist-minded activists hope that someone reminds the hunters in the NRA's constituency that the NRA's leadership has lost touch with a lot of the NRA's membership and that the Donald's agenda isn't good for them.

[randome]

5. Good.

Because that's $15 million down the drain. Suckers.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]"The whole world is a circus if you know how to look at it."
Tony Randall, 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)[/center][/font][hr]

[lastlib]

6. Writing another check for Hillary.

Unfortunately not for $15million, but the best I can do.