Top GOP donor: 'I will not write another check' until candidates support assault weapons ban

The Hill ^ | 2/17/18 | MAX GREENWOOD

[Godebert]

A top GOP donor in Florida is threatening to withhold contributions to candidates and political groups that do not get behind a ban on assault weapons, The New York Times reported.

In an email to half a dozen Republican leaders on Saturday, Florida-based real estate developer Al Hoffman Jr. decried the rash of mass shootings that has roiled the U.S. for years, and demanded that GOP politicians take action.

"I will not write another check unless they all support a ban on assault weapons," Hoffman wrote in the email, according to the Times. "Enough is enough!"

[FrankR]

Welcome to “Law-Mart”...your store to buy and sell politicians to pass laws YOU like only. Damn the laws, damn the Constitution...if you don’t like a law, then don’t write that check.

This is a perverted version of “pay to play”, graft, and clintonism. Buy your way to perversion.

I’m sure the entire country will dry up and blow away without this guy’s sacred check. Get ready for the great depression all over again.

[ealgeone]

Not you....but we’re letting the media define the term and I don’t see many challenging them.

[Psalm 144]

Same old dead weight we’ve been dragging around for decades. Bush, McCain, Romney establishment hack. I’m so weary of these clones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Hoffman_Jr.

[IncPen]

Keep your cash.

My Second Amendment rights are not for sale.

[hal ogen]

You can kill someone with just about anything. Gun-banners are not thinking clearly. Cars kill more people each year in the USA. Why no wailing to ban cars?

[mountainlion]

With people like Corry Gardner and Johm McCain why should I support their globalists views?

[TTFlyer]

The GOP wing of the Uniparty can go to hell.

[Godebert]

"There is to be NO DISCUSSION on Gun Control until The Wall is BUILT!"

The 2nd Amendment is NOT up for a debate. It is a Natural Right not subject to the laws of men.

[Jim Robinson]

Well, bye. Take Jeb with you. Rubio, too.

[jch10]

I wasn’t aware this was the only donor the GOP had.

[SuperLuminal]

I’d like him to provide some supporting evidence of assault weapons used in mass murders. As far as I have been able to determine none have been used so far...

[JudgemAll]

Good! No more Flakes and Jebs getting their check! Winning again. Trump rides independently! Lmao.

[ameribbean expat]

Bullcrap. Anybody who gives 120 million is getting something in return. Florida politicians depend on real estate developers the way Michigan politicians used to count on the unions.

[AndyJackson]

I would like a list of the folks he ends up supporting. Maybe we could spread it around a few places like here, Reddit and 8chan.

[faithhopecharity]

What a jerk! Why do some ahole jerk idiots have so much money ?

[hillarys cankles]

wanna see the left lose their mind?

Tell them they will get their assault weapons ban.........

If they give us the wall, ban chain migration, ban anchor babies, and DACA is ended and those “kids” are deported.

[Bryanw92]

>>Not you....but we’re letting the media define the term and I don’t see many challenging them.

I see every gun owner I know challenging them every time some Prog opens their mouth about “assault rifles”. My FB feed is blowing up with the difference between Semi-autos and Assault Rifles today.

[RW_Whacko]

I wasn’t aware this was the only donor the GOP had.

We should all send him sand to pound up his a$$.

[olezip]

In an email to half a dozen Republican leaders on Saturday, Florida-based real estate developer Al Hoffman Jr. decried the rash of mass shootings that has roiled the U.S. for years, and demanded that GOP politicians take action.

I would hope that Florida-based real estate developer Al Hoffman Jr. would take a deep breath and think through what he is saying. Taking away guns will not solve the mental health issue, or the failure of authorities to take appropriate action.

The psycho perpetrator was on drugs; he should have been in a mental institution. But wait, liberal judges, Democrats, and the ACLU closed mental institutions many years ago, and put the inmates on the street. They kept the perp on the street even after authorities visited his home 39 times.

The Dems think that they can solve school killings by taking away your guns, while ignoring the role of drugs and the lack of proper mental health treatment?

[NutsOnYew]

For the benefit of other non-rifle people like myself, I looked this up. This is what the firearms trade association has to say in this argument. NOTE: A trade association may be biased.

AR-15-platform rifles are among the most popular firearms being sold. They are today’s modern sporting rifle. The AR in “AR-15” rifle stands for ArmaLite rifle, after the company that developed it in the 1950s. “AR” does NOT stand for “assault rifle” or “automatic rifle.” AR-15-style rifles are NOT “assault weapons” or “assault rifles.” An assault rifle is fully automatic — a machine gun. Automatic firearms have been severely restricted from civilian ownership since 1934.