Gun-Control Activists to Pour Another Million Dollars into Virginia State Elections

Washington Free Beacon ^ | September 20, 2017 | Stephen Gutowski

[Perseverando]

State to again become a battleground over gun policy

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One of the nation's leading gun-control advocacy groups announced plans on Friday to spend upwards of $1 million in the upcoming Virginia gubernatorial and attorney general races even though a similar spending effort failed to flip control of the state senate in 2015.

The Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, a New York-based gun-control group founded in large part by Michael Bloomberg, is donating $450,000 to Democrat Ralph Northam in his race against Republican Ed Gillespie. They're spending another $250,000 on mailers supporting Northam. The gun-control group is putting another $300,000 into Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring's reelection bid.

Northam and Herring contrast with their Republican opponents on gun policy. Northam supports an assault weapons ban, magazine size limits, universal background checks, and a return to the one-gun-a-month rule—all distinctions from Gillespie. Herring also supports universal background checks and the one-gun-a-month rule, and his campaign website touts his record as one of standing up to the "gun lobby and a legislature that is beholden to it." Herring's opponent, Republican John Adams, has promised to "vigorously defend the Second Amendment."

"We are making this initial investment because Ralph Northam and Mark Herring have been forceful champions for gun violence prevention in Virginia, while their opponents subscribe to a dangerous ‘guns everywhere’ agenda," Brynne Craig, a senior strategist for Everytown, told the Washington Post.

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Virginia has to go Republican in November or we're in a hurt locker. Gillespie or Northam? No comparison.

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"Bloomberg knows that his agenda of gun control has been soundly rejected by the majority of voters in Virginia, so he is going back to his standard Plan B, which is trying to buy the election," Philip Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, told the Washington Free Beacon. "Just like in the past, his money will be used to fund false, deceiving, and misleading political ads—and lots of them. But, unlike gun-rights organizations, his Achilles heal is that he doesn't have a hardcore base that believes in his vision of a tyrannical government with gun control as one of its cornerstones."

If you're pro gun and live in Virginian and not a member of Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) please join, or at least get connected by signing up for their free, highly informative email alerts.

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I hope the NRA and republicans will publicize this out of state effort to buy the Governor’s chair. America’s enemies will not stop voluntarily until we are disarmed and they are able to take they absolute power they crave over the minutia our lives.

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The Constitution is not up for sale or vote.

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Jill Vogel interviewed this afternoon on WMAL TODAY: JILL VOGEL, Virginia’s Republican Candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Weighs in on the Campaign Thus Far"

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"The Constitution is not up for sale or vote."

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