Posted on 04/20/2007 8:26:41 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Hosted at the mansion/home of former Denver Nuggets star Kiki Van De Weghe, the event was meant as a strict money gatherer for Giuliani's frontrunner campaign.
Only one problem: Giuliani is adamantly anti-gun, with a record to prove it.
Being the first in a series of collaborative efforts between Rocky Mountain Gun Owners and the National Association for Gun Rights, we wanted this one to be a surprise (to both the organizers of the event and the attendees). Rest assured we'll let you know when there is another event.
A small number of hardcore RMGO activists met outside the Cheeseman Park mansion, where valet attendants waited for the rich (tickets were $4000+ apiece for the personal discussion) to meet with the former New York mayor.
Dressed in nice clothes, with smiles on our faces, we handed out this flyer (http://www.nagr.org/Giuliani.pdf) to the fatcats as they walked in.
Thinking we were part of the event staff, they happily took the flyer as we said "If you care about your right to own firearms you'll want to see the incredible anti-gun record of Mayor Giuliani's."
Responses always vary, but few refused the flyer. Even John Elway read it, and seemed to be shocked by the label of "Liberal" on a Republican.
You can read the Rocky Mountain News account of the event here.
Friends, this kind of thing hurts politicians. It's extremely demoralizing to a politician and their staff when people aren't fawning all over them, trying to shake their hand, get a picture with them, and "get access" to someone with the kind of star power a frontrunner for president generates.
Even more effective is the affect this kind of activity has on politicians and political operatives who attend these events. They see an organized group going after someone who could become the next President of the United States. If a group has the guts to go after someone with that kind of power, they certainly will go after a State Legislator who votes wrong. It can do nothing but improve their behavior.
It's a shame that we have a republican candidate for which we pretty much HAVE to show up and picket and agitate against in order to send the "right" message to our local officials.
It's going to be pretty demoralizing having to picket our candidate while sending him money and voting for him. Please don't make us go through with it, republican primary voters!!!!
This guy is a Republican in NY simply because he is slightly to the right of Marx. The democrat contenders are probably to the left of Marx.
EXCELLENT!
Setting aside the merits (or lack thereof) of the linked scribe, since when did some gun nut’s blog belong in the News/Activism forum of FR?
Stop rudy 2008 ping!
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It would be great if more people adopted this tactic - get the truth out about giuliani at his fundraising appearances.
It’s news, and they’re taking part in grass roots activism.
It reads like activism/news to me.
Where do I start? It was in the news. It is activism...
I should note that golf is not protected in the Constitution. It probably takes away from the work needed to support the obese, bloated state.
The Big Chill
No more, no less.
Let's all post whatever blogs we find in whatever FR forum we want.......
Won't that be fun?
No global warming in my state.
RMGO is not a blog, its Colorado's most stalwart 2nd Amendment organization.
Rudy is an authoritarian.
No more.
No less.
Rudy swapping a dress.
Probably with Hillary, no less.....
The Republicans deserve to lose if they nominate Rudy.
What's the matter hole n one? Did someone diss your favorite liberal Rino Rudy? This is activism, therefore it belongs where it is. If you have a problem with it, report it to the admin and if you are correct they will move it.
You consider an organization, representing gunowners in Colorado, defending the Constitution to be "some gun nut"?
I think you are on the wrong website.
I don't want to rush into it.
Doesn’t look like a blog to me. Maybe you’re on the wrong website. And by that I mean this one.
Got something against gun nuts?
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