Posted on 06/17/2014 1:24:17 PM PDT by cotton1706
After rallying voters against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) last week, on Monday, the Gun Owners of America (GOA) endorsed Joe Carr, a Tennessee state representative who is challenging Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) in the August 7th GOP primary.
"It happened in Virginia to Eric Cantor. It’s about to happen in Mississippi, too. Washington establishment insiders – who care more about their reelections than your constitutional rights – are being defeated by an electorate fed up with the status quo," wrote Tim Macy, the vice chairman of the group. "It’s time for the same kind of change in Tennessee, and that’s why Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund is proud to support Joe Carr for U.S. Senate."
The group noted that "time after time in the state legislature, Rep. Carr stood up for gun owners’ rights."
"Joe voted to protect the privacy of concealed carry permit holders, and he voted to expand concealed carry to all restaurants so you are better able to protect yourself and your family," they continued. "Joe voted to eliminate the unconstitutional requirement that gun buyers submit a thumbprint to Tennessee firearms dealers."
Macy told GOA members that while Carr has "committed in writing to protect your gun rights 100% of the time," Alexander, "who refuses even to answer the GOA candidate survey" has not, probably because he only has a "C" rating from GOA.
The National Rifle Association has given Alexander, who opposed last year's bill on background checks, an "A" rating.
But GOA feels that Carr will be a better senator for the Second Amendment.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Momentum for Carr. Gun owners of Tennessee UNITE! Time to fire Lamar!
Joe Carr has my vote, it is time for Lamar to go home.
The question begs, if Cochran falls, will the E-GOP try to make Lamar their no-cross line, or do these domino’s keep falling. Again, IMHO the greater the number of the old bulls in the Senate we retire the better.
Lamar’s primary is the last one where an incumbent is being challenged.
Thanks. They still will not be happy with TW Shannon, J. Ernst, Scott from SC, Maness, and any others you can think of that will alley with Cruz-Lee and the sometimes Paul and Rubio. Alaska is a wild card, have you heard anything?
The Alaska primary is on 8/26, with Dan Sullivan in the lead. Haven’t seen a poll pitting any of the three against the democrat in a while.
PING
If Cornball could have been toppled in TX, we might have had a sweep against the RINOs, but the Texans protected the RINOs.
Holy Smokes I did some quick research, man he looks like a good candidate. I think he might caucus with the good guys IMHO if he gets in...
This looks good. But I wonder...Are the members of Carr’s campaign really working door to door? If not, they need to get organized in such a way to do so.
I hope Laura Ingram keeps mentioning him.
Carr was senator no doubt would be better for the state and the nation. He does seem to be doing his part including appearances in all parts of the state. Maybe if he took a dog into a local courthouse at least one east Tennessee paper would write an article. Some posters know what I'm talking about. It's one Tennessee papers strong bias against the GOP writing idiotic middle school newspaper type attack articles.
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