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Brady Campaign selling its mailing lists
Joe Huffman makes an interesting discovery on the web: Brady Campaign is selling its mailing list . And it’s only got 50,000 names (only 28,000 of whom have donated or otherwise responded in the last year, if I read it correctly), rather than the 500,000 to which Brady has laid claim. Icing on the cake: Kurt Hoffman points out that on its webpage, Brady Campaign promised donors and activists that “the Brady Campaign and the Brady Center will not sell your name or e-mail address to spammers or share it with unaffiliated groups.” Perhaps they figure that it isn’t “sharing” if you sell it for cold cash, or else they are getting so desperate that promises mean less than income.
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Joe Huffman makes an interesting discovery on the web: Brady Campaign is selling its mailing list . And it’s only got 50,000 names (only 28,000 of whom have donated or otherwise responded in the last year, if I read it correctly), rather than the 500,000 to which Brady has laid claim.
Full StoryBrady Campaign and Helen Thomas
Displaying a perfect sense of timing, Brady Campaign recently proclaimed Helen Thomas a “visionary.” What’s the line from The Princess Bride?
Full StoryBrady Campaign hunkers down on the Chicago case
Dennis Henigan pretty much accepts a loss, and looks for a silver lining in that cloud . Good try. It cuts both ways…
Full StoryGiving up hope
On the Brady Campaign grading system, Arizona scores two points out of 100 . That means we’re beating Florida (six points) Texas (nine points), and many others. I checked out the details of their grading system, hoping that we could get down to zero, but it’s going to be hard
Full StoryBrady Campaign’s quest for relevance
After flip-flopping on health care, Michigan congressman Bart Stupak has decided not to run for re-election. Whereupon Brady Campaign gives him rather belated praise for having, ten years ago, cosponsored its failed proposal for background checks on private sales
Full StoryOrder re: defendant transfers rights to his firearms before conviction
Here’s an interesting recent district court ruling regarding firearm confiscation. A gunowner named Edward Brown faced the fact that he might be convicted of felony tax fraud
Full StoryBill Clinton agrees with NRA
At least, concerning its role in the 1994 electoral turnover : “Clinton added that the National Rifle Association also played a bigger role than it’s credited in turning over Congress during the 1994 Republican revolution. “They were mad about this whole weapons ban and the Brady Bill, and they probably took 15 of our House members out.
Full StoryBrady releases its annual report card
One story here : “The Brady Campaign’s report uses five categories to score states: how well they curb firearm trafficking, whether they perform background checks, how effectively they keep guns from children, whether they ban military-style weapons and how they regulate guns in public places. Massachusetts scored 54 out of 100 points. No
Full StoryNRA and Brady Center finally have something to agree on
Article here : “Obama got an “F” on every issue the Brady Campaign scored, according to its report card.” UPDATE: from New West : “all of the above makes me more comfortable that I made the right bet when I said the NRA has won the war for the Second Amendment and Democrats have given up on the gun issue.”
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