Posted on 06/25/2011 5:57:59 AM PDT by JohnPierce
Paul Helmke, Yale Law graduate and former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne Indiana who has served as the president of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence since 2006, has announced that he is stepping down effective July 10th.
Despite his highly respected resume, during his tenure at the Brady Campaign, Helmke has presided over a steady decline in the organizations relevancy.
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The Brady Campaign hates this country, hates our Constitution and I’ll even say hates our God for the rights He gives to us. I hope and pray that every state will have a big, fat ZERO rating from this anti-US organization.
The good news is that the states have certainly been working to lower their Brady score lately. :)
The public have voted with their feet and paid with their blood and their freedoms.
Gun control as practiced by the state is a dismal, dangerous failure. But, as usual, leftists must learn lessons the hard way. Their laws are in still in place. Productive, intelligent citizens who value their Constitutional rights have moved out of heavy-handed states leaving the criminal flotsam and jetsam who ignore any and all laws and couldn’t read them even if they were handed a copy.
Gun control groups are a relic of a time when enough of the populace believed that the police could and would protect them. But the police are too busy with DUI checkpoints, peering through tinted safety glass to catch those scofflaws not wearing seat belts, running radar, etc.
In sum, the relevance of Brady et al has nothing to do with management but is down strictly to the bankruptcy of their ideas.
The article doesn’t mention Sarah—Is she still alive?
Another elitist - Yale graduate. He ought to be a democrat !
Didn’t you hear? She quit her bus tour “halfway through”.
She’s still alive as far as I know, but I’m happy not to have to listen to her anymore, and see her exploiting her poor husband by parading him around putting words in his mouth.
It’s hard to believe that the Brady’s have moved on, and we at Second Amendment Sisters are stronger than ever! For anybody who doesn’t know, Second Amendment Sisters, Inc was founded right here on FR when we first heard about something called the “Million Mom March” which then hatched the Brady Bunch.
Also, we don’t hear Rosie O or Oprah, and many of the other “big” names spouting off about guns as often as we used to.
We can’t let our guard down—other groups will surely pop up, but just for a little while, I’m enjoying the demise of the Brady Bunch!
Leftist do not learn. After being wrong about blood running in the streets for every state passing better carry laws, there is only one state left for them to be "right" about.
The only blood running in the streets in the asreas with the strictest laws. But they can't see that.
Mrs. Brady was quoted in the WaPo as having said that she met with President Obama and “I just want you to know that we are working on it,” Brady recalled the president telling them. “We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar.”
That was on March 30th of this year.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/over-a-barrel-meet-white-house-gun-policy-adviser-steve-croley/2011/04/04/AFt9EKND_print.html
“The article doesn’t mention Sarah—Is she still alive?”
I know a guy who worked at a little local talk radio station where she lives. He said she constantly calls the station, trying to get on any show about any topic, so she can talk about gun grabbing. They hang up on her.
Thanks for the information—I had somehow missed that.
She is still alive. She had suffered from cancer but is still with us at this point. I seem to recall they gave her and Jim an award recently.
“Despite his highly respected resume, during his tenure at the Brady Campaign, Helmke has presided over a steady decline in the organizations relevancy.”
Deckchairs. Titanic.
Agreed. That last used to really tick me off. No matter what lunacy they were promoting, at some point they'd use the poor guy as a Ju-Ju doll, parading him before the public and, in essence, saying, "Feel sorry for the cripple and support this law."
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