Posted on 06/26/2016 7:02:58 AM PDT by rktman
This report refers to Shannon Watts as one in a group of “regular people” who began advocating for stricter gun control measures in recent years. After the December 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., she created the “One Million Moms for Gun Control” Facebook page. It later became “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.” We should have noted that Watts has a background in corporate communications. From 1998 to mid-2012, she was a corporate communications executive or consultant at such companies as Monsanto and FleishmanHillard. Before that, Watts had what she says was a nonpolitical job as a public affairs officer in the Missouri state government.
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NPR = National Propaganda Radio
LOL! Leni rifenstal (SP) would be proud. I didn’t listen, I just stumbled on the article. Besides, calling these people out is useless. Like I said earlier in another post, there’s “JUST US” and there’s justice.
I’m sure she just does it only for expenses and armed protection. Oh, did I say armed protection? What was I thinking? I remember the video of Dana Loesch trying to get her to do an interview a couple of years ago at the NRA convention protest in Ohio. Who were those burly guys with bulging armpits that whisked ‘stw’ away in black suv’s with NY state plates?
I would think ‘stay at home Moms’ would be a natural for keeping a firearm or two handy just in case.
Dad would be wise to maximize the protection for the love of his life and his children by spending the time and money to train the Mrs..
Homer: Who is it?
Male Voice: Goons.
Homer: Who?
Male Voice: Hired goons.
Makes you kinda wish you had armed security and, more than likely, up armored SUV’s to take you around huh? LOL!
bulging armpits?
Saw a woman wearing a bikini & with that same problem. Another woman nearby was heard to observe,
“I guess two isn’t enough for her. She wants four.”
;^)
Please not again.
aka “Chicken Cutlets”
Is it true that Watts was not “an activist or involved in gun issues” before December 2012? Her Huffington Post biography mentions nothing about her political career, but according to her biography on Linkedin.com, from 1993 to 1998 she was a public affairs officer for Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, the Missouri House of Representatives and the Missouri Department of Economic Development. (As her Linkedin biography shows, Watts has sometimes used Shannon Troughton as her professional name.)
After a while, Watts achieved the dream of every public relations professional—landing a fabulously rich client. Her previous clients have included WellPoint, GE Healthcare and Monsanto, but these giant companies are poor cousins compared to Watts’ current client. She landed the 16th-richest man in the world (according to Forbes magazine): Michael Bloomberg and his $32 billion. Today, MDAG is part of Bloomberg’s gun prohibition empire, which also includes his new “Everytown” organization and his anti-gun mayors group.
What’s Bloomberg getting for his investment? Well, not much grassroots. MDAG has a lot of trouble getting attendance at its rallies. In fact, if you don’t count the paid staff and the people who are getting free trips from Bloomberg, attendance at the rallies is tiny indeed.
On Twitter, MDAG has 24,100 followers, and the MDAG channel on YouTube has 650 subscribers. The various videos uploaded by MDAG typically have a few hundred viewers—with the notable exception of a video claiming that Facebook promotes illegal gun sales, which received more than 300,000 views.
“Ms. Watts’ goal is for Moms Demand Action to become the Mothers Against Drunk Driving of safe gun laws.” Mothers Against Drunk Driving does not lobby for the prohibition of driving, of alcohol, of automobiles or even of getting drunk. In contrast, Watts is, like her employer, a prohibitionist.
She asserts that her group “is in no way anti-gun” and that it supports the Second Amendment. Yet Watts declares that she wants to outlaw “assault weapons,” which she defines as a gun that “enables humans to shoot 10 rounds in one minute” (Twitter, @shannonwatts, Nov. 1, 2013). In
other words, everything except a muzzle-loading long gun is an “assault weapon” that must be prohibited.
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2014/9/1/not-watts-she-seems/
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