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(94,602 posts)Too old?
Too "corporate"?
mcar
(42,334 posts)lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)in politics started when she was close to a double assassination.
She knows a bit about gun violence.
nycbos
(6,034 posts)... telling the press about the murders of Harvey Milk and George Moscone
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)can disassemble an AR-15 blindfolded, name each part, and shoot a target resembling a human being dead center after 20 slugs of tequila.
She does have guts, something we need more of.
FunkyLeprechaun
(2,383 posts)They worked together in the same department and were quite friends.
When I first read about this, it made me understand why she had a strong gun control position.
hueymahl
(2,498 posts)1994 was a long time and many dead children ago.
George II
(67,782 posts)Motownman78
(491 posts)Hell, even the Speaker of the House lost his seat.
mcar
(42,334 posts)Can you clarify?
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)"On November 8, we got the living daylights beat out of us, losing eight Senate races and fifty-four House seats, the largest defeat for our party since 1946....The NRA had a great night. They beat both Speaker Tom Foley and Jack Brooks, two of the ablest members of Congress, who had warned me this would happen. Foley was the first Speaker to be defeated in more than a century. Jack Brooks had supported the NRA for years and had led the fight against the assault weapons ban in the House, but as chairman of the Judiciary Committee he had voted for the overall crime bill even after the ban was put into it. The NRA was an unforgiving master: one strike and you're out. The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list. They did at least that much damage...." (Pages 629-630)
"One Saturday morning, I went to a diner in Manchester full of men who were deer hunters and NRA members. In impromptu remarks, I told them that I knew they had defeated their Democratic congressman, Dick Swett, in 1994 because he voted for the Brady bill and the assault weapons ban. Several of them nodded in agreement." (Page 699)
--William J. Clinton, My Life
mcar
(42,334 posts)and hoping she loses. It was a reminder that, while we cannot ever agree with a politician 100%, it is important to acknowledge the good said pol has done.
Re your reply: Democrats who go squishy on common sense gun laws this cycle because Rs will say bad things about them are idiots. I give Red state Dem senators a bit of a pass here, but otherwise - it's time to stand up for sanity.
X_Digger
(18,585 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)Or are you advocating doing the safe thing so we can keep everyone in power?
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)They identify who they want us to get rid of and then we go out and do it for them.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
mcar
(42,334 posts)We eat our own every time. I have no patience for it anymore.