Worth remembering... 5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
Posted on 08/04/2004 5:02:55 PM PDT by mvpel
NEWS RELEASE
Tuesday's primary defeat of anti-gun Missouri Gov. Bob Holden should serve as an object lesson for other politicians who place political correctness ahead of the personal safety of their constituents, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) stated.
"Show Me State gun owners showed Bob Holden the door," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Although they tried to downplay it, both the St. Louis Post Dispatch and Kansas City Star acknowledged that Holden's veto of concealed carry legislation cost him critical votes, especially in rural Missouri. The governor and his political advisors should have seen this coming the instant that Missouri lawmakers came back to Jefferson City last year to override his arrogant veto."
CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron added, "It takes examples like Bob Holden to remind anti-gun politicians that they should never underestimate the fury of gun owners, who may not even show as a blip on the political radar until they swoop to the polls. Grassroots activism in the firearms community is alive and well, as Tuesday's primary vote demonstrated."
For more than a year, Missouri gun owners have been waiting for this opportunity, the gun rights leaders noted. It was the first time in state history that an incumbent governor was ousted by a challenger from his own party.
"Bob Holden's veto last year got Missouri gun owners mad," Gottlieb observed, "and Tuesday, gun owners got even. The governor's other leadership problems on education, the economy and social issues certainly crippled him, but his anti-gun philosophy was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back."
"You do not take a position that undermines the personal safety of your constituents, leaving them defenseless against criminals," Waldron stated. "Politicians who think they can give lip service to gun rights and personal protection, while voting or vetoing otherwise, should take a lesson from Holden's precedent-setting primary defeat. Gun owners are out there, in the tall grass, and they don't forget."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep an! d Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
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While this is true, it was the rats themselves who had enough of Sideshow Bob ... there just weren't enough big time union types in St. Louis and Kansas City to save his weasel butt from being ousted.
Happened to Ma Carnahan also.
Worth remembering... 5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
Holden vows to veto concealed weapons bill - March 7, 2003
Missouri: House overrides third Holden veto (of gun lawsuit prohibition) - Sep 12, 2003
Holden vetoes House concealed gun measure - July 3, 2003
Holden vetoes concealed weapons bill - July 4, 2003
Anheuser-Busch drops support of Holden over guns - Oct 2, 2003
Holden will ban concealed weapons in state buildings - October 6, 2003
Same thing happened to Ann Richardson in Texas. She had the highest aproval rating ever when she vetoed the CCW bill. Then a rookie politician named George W. Bush beat her.
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Ms. McCaskill is also anti-second-amendment and she is running against Matt Blunt. (He's currently Secretary of State and served some time in the Middle East-I forget where-during the past four years.)
Go Matt Blunt. Go GOP!
Nice to see that at least the gun owners are holding the politicians accountable for what they do. Wish it would spread to other issues...we'd have a far better country.
He also managed to piss off the pro-lifers with another veto, I gather, so he managed to mobilize two groups of single-issue voters. Not too swift, eh?
Applause, applause !!!
for the good folks of Missouri !!
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