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It's not NRA money that's the problem, it's NRA voters (barf alert)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 23 feb 2018 | Eric Zorn

Posted on 02/23/2018 8:49:48 AM PST by rellimpank

With stunning poise and steely confidence, Cameron Kasky, a junior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, confronted U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., live on CNN on Wednesday evening.

“Can you tell me right now that you will not accept a single donation from the (National Rifle Association)?” he demanded. In the arena where the town hall event was held, the crowd of some 7,000 — most of them connected to the school community that was shattered when a gunman killed 17 during a Feb. 14 rampage — stood and cheered for more than 20 seconds.

After a bit of back-and-forth, Rubio answered: “No. 1, the positions I hold on these issues of the Second Amendment I've held since the day I entered office in the city of West Miami as an elected official.

“No. 2,” he went on, “No. The answer to the question is that people buy into my agenda. … The influence of these groups comes not from money. The influence comes from the millions of people that agree with the agenda; the millions of Americans that support the NRA.”

A moment later Kasky pressed the point. “In the name of 17 people, you cannot ask the NRA to keep their money out of your campaign?” he asked. “Are you gonna be accepting money from the NRA in the future?”

Rubio’s answer, greeted with jeers: “I will always accept the help of anyone who agrees with my agenda.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; banglist; casky; clintonnewsnetwork; cnn; cruz; ericzorn; fakenews; guncontrol; gungrabbers; guns; nikolascruz; nra; parkview; secondamendment; zorn
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1 posted on 02/23/2018 8:49:48 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

No, it’s crazy people and the morons who allow them to wander our streets.


2 posted on 02/23/2018 8:50:58 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: rellimpank
With stunning poise and steely confidence

With a sign like that, you can be assured that the road ahead is going to be unbiased.

3 posted on 02/23/2018 8:51:29 AM PST by niteowl77
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To: rellimpank

Maybe we can finally make the Democrats happy and pass a “All Conservatives Must Have Their Hands Tied Behind Their Backs Law”.


4 posted on 02/23/2018 8:52:54 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: rellimpank

And there are more of us every day.


5 posted on 02/23/2018 8:53:04 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism us truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: rellimpank

Anyone else have FLORIDA FATIGUE???

As if the 2000 election wasn’t bad enough!


6 posted on 02/23/2018 8:53:34 AM PST by Professional
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To: rellimpank

—and a surprisingly sane piece from Chicago’s other garbage wrap—

https://chicago.suntimes.com/opinion/gun-regulations-need-to-start-small/


7 posted on 02/23/2018 8:54:53 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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The answer to the question is that people buy into my agenda.
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Rubio thinks because you voted for him, you buy into amnesty for illegal aliens and arming jihadists in Syria and Libya, too.


8 posted on 02/23/2018 8:55:26 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rellimpank
Cameron Kasky is a nasty piece of work. His twitter account is filled with hateful stuff about Ron Paul to Republicans in General long before this shooting happened.
9 posted on 02/23/2018 8:56:06 AM PST by wmileo
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To: rellimpank

Not with a title like that. It’s calling for the Fabianist approach to gun bans.


10 posted on 02/23/2018 8:56:39 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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11 posted on 02/23/2018 8:56:51 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: rellimpank

Eric Zorn, lol. The perennial adolescent in the back of the class throwing spitballs.


12 posted on 02/23/2018 8:57:08 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: niteowl77

For sure, I didn’t read any further.
I have steely confidence that it’s TOTALLY objective.
And I’m stunningly poised as well.


13 posted on 02/23/2018 8:57:17 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: rellimpank

I take it as a compliment. We are the problem - for them. Just as we were the problem for a Hillary presidency.


14 posted on 02/23/2018 8:57:33 AM PST by robroys woman (So you're not confused, I'm male.)
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To: rellimpank

Poor Eric Zorn . . . a lifetime in “journalism” (literally) and nothing but hate to show for it.


15 posted on 02/23/2018 8:57:36 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: blueunicorn6
Maybe we can finally make the Democrats happy and pass a “All Conservatives Must Have Their Hands Tied Behind Their Backs Law”.

How do you think they are going to load us into the boxcars if our hands are free?

16 posted on 02/23/2018 8:58:33 AM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: rellimpank

I am proud to be part of a leftist problem.


17 posted on 02/23/2018 9:00:03 AM PST by ThinkingBuddha
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To: rellimpank

Eric Zorn is an uber-leftist, and always has been. If Chris Mathews gets a tingle up his leg at the mention of Obama, Eric Zorn gets an erection.


18 posted on 02/23/2018 9:00:16 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: niteowl77
Sounds like Zorny got a little horny.

Who would you rather leave a child with, Eric Zorn or Clint Eastwood?

19 posted on 02/23/2018 9:00:45 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: rellimpank

We really need to give a platform to a snot-nosed high school junior. /s
We also need to understand their minds have been deliberately poisoned against the NRA. I have no doubt this brain dead moron believes what he said with his whole heart. That may not go well for him in the years to come.


20 posted on 02/23/2018 9:00:50 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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