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Top donors threaten Dems: Do the right thing on guns, or no more money
Washington Post ^ | March 28, 2013 | Greg Sargent

Posted on 03/29/2013 9:39:32 AM PDT by Mount Athos

With red state Democratic Senators remaining skittish about embracing Obama’s gun proposals, at least two top Democratic donors are stepping forward and vowing to withhold any and all future financial contributions from any Democrats who don’t support the centerpiece of Obama’s plan: Expanded background checks.

The move underscores the rising importance of gun control as an issue in Democratic politics — and the rising frustration in some Democratic circles with elected officials who continue to regard gun politics as a third rail, at a moment that presents a real opportunity to achieve serious reform, with a policy that enjoys near universal public support.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; banglist; donors; fundingtheleft; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Oatka

Intellectual ,ake it sound like they are smart.

Admittedly they make more money than most of us and don’t do any work, but I am not ready to say they are smart.


21 posted on 03/29/2013 1:14:40 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: driftdiver

Certainly Conservatives donate .

We got Brown elected.

Conservatives don’t donate to RINO’s. We screwed up on Brown, He turned on us.


22 posted on 03/29/2013 1:26:46 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Mount Athos

The man in the Oval Office-—who got NO BACKGROUND CHECK of any kind-—has his little girl panties in a wad trying to harm Americans.

AMAZING.


23 posted on 03/29/2013 2:26:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Mount Athos

Near universal my butt.
Here we have the organs of state media pretending
to be the mass of the people.
All of this is detailed in any study of communism.

Just say no, HELL NO!


24 posted on 03/29/2013 2:33:50 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Mount Athos

This move will “purify” the Rat party of any of its last defenders on the Constitution. No limits as to how far they can go without the accompanying entanglements of that ancient document.


25 posted on 03/29/2013 2:36:39 PM PDT by BlueYonder
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To: Mount Athos

Obama’s plan: Expanded background checks.
EXCEPT HIS


26 posted on 03/29/2013 2:43:37 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Mount Athos

“...Kenneth Lerer, a New York businessman who is chairman of Buzzfeed.com...”

...David Bohnett, a technology entrepreneur and philanthropist based in Los Angeles...”

...Grace Tsau-Wu of Chicago, who was on Obama’s national finance committee in 2012...”
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They will all be in internment camps after the rebellion.


27 posted on 03/29/2013 2:55:12 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Sadly so might we!


28 posted on 03/29/2013 3:06:57 PM PDT by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: Mount Athos
t least two top Democratic donors are stepping forward and vowing to withhold any and all future financial contributions from any Democrats who don’t support the centerpiece of Obama’s plan: Expanded background checks.

Jail them. And if anyone dies as a result of their activities, execute them.

Title 18 US Code: 18 USC §ection 241 - Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; . ... .

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

29 posted on 03/29/2013 4:59:19 PM PDT by archy
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To: archy

These rich anti-Free-America a-holes have a great need for justice.


30 posted on 03/30/2013 8:36:41 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp?)
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