Posted on 05/02/2018 7:49:00 AM PDT by narses
***s Sporting Goods, which announced in February it would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, hired three Beltway lobbyists to lobby Congress for gun control, according to federal records reviewed by The Federalist.
The lobbying records show ***s hired two Democrats and one Republican from Glover Park Group, a DC-based government affairs firm, for [l]obbying related to gun control. No other policy issues were listed in the disclosure form filed by the firm. The disclosure forms show ***s pro-gun control lobbying effort began official on April 27, 2018. The official registration form noting ***s retention of Glover to push for gun control was filed on Monday morning.
The three lobbyists tapped by ***s to push for gun control are listed by name in the federal disclosure forms, which are required by the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 to be filed quarterly: Joel Johnson, who worked for both President Bill Clinton and Senate Democrat leadership; Andrew King, who worked for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.); and Christina Brown, a former staffer for Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.).
Prior to retaining Glover Park Group to push for gun control, ***s Sporting Goods retained the services of CSA Strategies LLC, which pushed for issues such as tax reform, cybersecurity, and patent litigation reform on behalf of ***s during the four-year relationship between the two companies. Both firms are headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
CSA is helmed by Alex Urrea, a former Republican staffer on the House Financial Services committee. ***s relationship with CSA was terminated effective January 31, 2018, but was not made public until early April, lobbying records show.
In February, ***s CEO announced the sporting goods chain would no longer sell rifles to anyone under the age of 21, even though such sales are perfectly legal under federal law.
Sean Davis is the co-founder of The Federalist.
If you are losing business to your competition because you made a bad decision do you:
a) Reconsider your decision and reverse course,
or
b) Lobby Congress to FORCE your competition to make the same bad decision?
I think we know the answer.
... while most other stocks in all sectors are up 50% or more in the same time period. That's a plunge into the abyss.
You couldn't type or copy and paste the word "Dicks"?
Not if they’re getting something in exchange. If so, I’d like to know what it is.
Let them support their new "business model" with libs.
What this tells me is that Dicks completely understands that their long-term ability to continue as an ongoing concern is now in serious jeopardy, and they are endeavoring to save themselves. They know.
Dicks is dicking themselves.
They’re going to virtue signal themselves out of business.
We dont have sportsman warehouse here....yet. Crossing my fingers!
Dicks moved into the closed sports authority storefront in my area. I do not see much traffic EVER and am actively wishing for their quick demise.
Businesses picking political sides ALWAYS lose.
Thats why they get the big bucks.
Nothing says success quite like deliberately telling your customer base to go F itself. One heck of a business model.
I hate to break it to them, but all outdoorsy lefties shop at Patagonia, so all the little David Hoggs of the world won't be showing up for fishing rods and propane stoves anytime soon.
Great minds think alike. :) Do any business consulting?
Appropriately named.
Haha no, I just see the writing on the wall. So many businesses closing left and right, and they pull this stunt. Brilliant! ;)
Isn’t that ****’s instead of “***’s?”
I went in one of those places a long time ago. It looked queer. The employees behaved queerly. Even the name is queer.
I have an account with them and purchased a lot from them in the past as they have a store close to my house... NO MORE PURCHASES FROM THEM
Read carefully at your link. Dick’s is NOT owned by Gander Mountain or Camping World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick%27s_Sporting_Goods
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