Pasco County Republican Chairman Bill Bunting told them of Harris' A+ rating with the National Rifle Association.
http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060326/NEWS/603260398/1134
The Ledger (Lakeland, FL)
Published Sunday, March 26, 2006
Harris Courts GOP Base in Central Florida
By TRAVIS REED
The Associated Press
ORLANDO -- The roughly 100 people packed into a fairgrounds building for a concealed carry handgun class looked up blankly Saturday as U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris entered.
Hands blackened by fingerprinting ink, they listened, many with seeming half-interest, as Harris talked about her political record, gun rights, making President Bush's tax cuts permanent and helping small businesses.
They erupted into applause when weapons instructor and Pasco County Republican Chairman Bill Bunting told them of Harris' A+ rating with the National Rifle Association.
"I'd vote for her in a heartbeat. I didn't think that before seeing what she's about," said Jim Myers, a 57-year-old disabled military veteran.
A week and a half after reaffirming her candidacy on national television and pledging $10 million of her own money to run it, Harris continued trying to shore up the GOP base in Florida on Saturday.
Her "grassfire campaign" for Senate stretched from breakfast in Kissimmee to an Orlando gun show, where Myers took the concealed carry class, and a barbecue later in Daytona Beach.
