Posted on 05/11/2020 9:19:19 AM PDT by rktman
Mike Bloomberg-founded Everytown for Gun Safety is spending $8 million in hopes of turning Texas blue in the November 2020 elections.
KRGV reports that Everytown already pledged the money and will, this Thursday, name three staffers to help with its Texas campaign.
Everytown senior political adviser Charlie Kelly commented: [Texas is] clearly emerging as a top battleground state theres just no question about it and its why were investing $8 million in the state this cycle. Between the investment and our network of 400,000 grassroots supporters, our goal is to do whatever it takes to elect gun sense candidates up and down the ballot in the state.
The gun control group made clear they hope, this year, to do in Texas exactly what they did in Virginia in 2019. Democrats took control of the Virginia legislature in 2019, thereafter pushing a slew of new gun controls on law-abiding citizens.
On April 10, 2020, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northams (D) office announced he signed a number of the Democrat-sponsored gun controls, including universal background checks and limitations on the number of handguns law-abiding Virginians can purchase each month. He also signed legislation putting the onus on law-abiding gun owners by requiring they report stolen firearms within 48 hours or face a civil penalty.
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Whether they succeed will depend on how seriously Republicans counter the threat.
They even have hats:
I remember them doing that. Talk about shortsighted.
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