NRA getting involved in US Senate race

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I have to say that I have been very excited about the NRA lately. In the past, I have been very outspoken about the NRA not being proactive enough..... but lately, I like what I have been seeing and am very pleased at the way they have gone after Obama and now Franken:

NRA brings gun control to U.S. Senate race

Brad Swenson, Bemidji Pioneer, DL-Online
Published Tuesday, October 21, 2008


CASS LAKE — While Al Franken forayed into northern Minnesota on Sunday, the National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund filled the airwaves with radio ads stating that the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate plans to take away citizens’ guns.

In the ad, a wife questions her husband’s reading of Al Franken’s books. He cites several anti-gun passages, in-cluding one where Franken writes it is better to collect baseball cards than guns. The man notes that U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., has stood for Second Amendment rights to bear arms, and should be trusted over Franken.

“I’m not going to take anyone’s guns away,” Franken said Sunday in an interview after he met with about 20 Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe members in Cass Lake. “People should know my stance is the same as Barack Obama’s. it’s the same as Norm Coleman’s. It’s the same as John McCain’s, which is Americans have the right to possess firearms for hunting and protection and collection”

In Hermantown, he helped NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre announce the NRA’s endorsement of Coleman for re-election.

“Every great idea, every wonderful value is always one generation from extinction. We have received a great heri-tage of the outdoor life and of freedom from our parents. It’s our solemn responsibility to pass those on to our kids. That’s one of the reasons I want to go back to Washington: to defend our rights against those who have a very differ-ent view,” said Coleman in accepting the endorsement.

“And one of the most important things we need to defend is our right to bear arms. Today I’m proud to stand with people like Wayne LaPierre and Todd Palin who believe in our Second Amendment rights and will never let them take that away from us. I’m proud to be here with them and to accept the NRA’s endorsement for six more years in the U.S. Senate,” Coleman said.

But the NRA’s Political Victory Fund has spent more than $2.3 million opposing Obama, according to an Associated Press report.

“I don’t know why the NRA feels the need to do that,” Franken said.

That is $2.3 Million well spent. Good job, NRA!

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I'm happy to see that my money is being well spent by one organization I donate to.  Of course, I guess you can't consider taxes paid to the government a donation.  They don't give you the option of terminating membership, unless you really like Canada.   

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