Last weekend was the NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Indianapolis where over 75,000 NRA members attended making it the 2nd largest atttendance in the 143 year history of the organization. Besides a lot of great products on display, some new membership promotional videos featuring some of the NRA’s new commentators. NRA is making some great outreach to women with these new resources. And with market research showing that as much as a third of all new gun owners are women. That’s a smart idea.
On Friday, in my role as VSSA Legislative Director, I had the opportunity to speak with Cam Edwards on NRANews’ Cam and Company about Terry McAuliffe’s latest anti-gun changes to legislation passed by the 2014 General Assembly, as well as Internet troll Mike Dickinson.
I was out running errands during lunch and heard an anti-Eric Cantor ad on WRVA during Rush Limbaugh.
The ad is paid for by Virginia Vision Action PAC and attacks Cantor for going to Florida this weekend to appear at a fund raiser for The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC, a newly formed “Super PAC” thats aim is to support incumbents or other “mainstream” candidates being opposed by Tea Party aligned candidates. Cantor was originally scheduled to appear with Speaker of the House John Boehner but Boehner backed out at the last-minute. At the end of the ad, it encourages people to vote for Dave Brat for Congress, a Randolph Macon College economics professor who is challenging Cantor in the June 10th, 7th District Republican Primary.
Brat is likely going to need the help of outside groups because as of the end of April, Cantor had $1.5 million in the bank. A quick check of the FEC only shows Brat’s candidate filing and no April Quarterly fundraising report. It doesn’t hurt to have this ad running on the 50,000 watt blow torch WRVA, the largest and most listened to talk station in the 7th Congressional District. WRVA airs Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity in addition to Michael Savage. It is the 7th District’s conservative voice on radio.
As an aside, while I may not be completely happy with all of Cantor’s votes of late, to call him a RINO is not accurate either. John McCain is a RINO. Chuck Hagel is a RINO. Eric Cantor is no RINO.
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