November 07, 2017 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
Oddly enough, there are no Ds on that list. Go figure…
1Drumpf has collected over $900,000.00 from gun lobbys.
2Wouldn’t you just know! this didn’t really take all that much research. You could have guessed! All R’s on that list? Sue! Why not! After what Scalise said when he was allowed out of the hospital, absolutely nothing – even the massacre of their own families – would stop the R’s from sucking NRA’s tit!
3Now I gotta calm down and go vote!
Kelly Ayotte (NH) and Joe Heck (NV) are gone. Let’s hope the rest of the list follows that trend. Having rid ourselves of Heck, hoping that Heller goes in 2018.
Wisconsin, please make my day and dump Lyin’ Ryan.
4It would be uncharitable of me to hope that someone takes a shot at Cruz and gets lucky, so I won’t do that… out loud.
5the suckups at texas monthly will be shocked, shocked i tell you to see hurd’s name on that list.
doesn’t he know he’s a moderate?
6Besides referential links, Mr. Googly denies an article with this verbiage exists anywhere but on a Facebook page – hardly authoritative, and you can’t pay me enough to allow FB to run its javascript on my clean-livin’ PC. All external say “via OpenSecrets.org,” but there’s no readily-apparent path to such data, mostly just about 2016 campaign money, and I aint got time to look harder than that.
Shame to waste such a juicy nugget as this because it can’t be corroborated. Are you sure about this one, Suz?
7Well, I really, really trust the source who sent it to me.
8Fair enough. But I don’t swallow anything I can’t vet. Call me kooky, but the simple act of paying attention has made me gun-shy about what I KNOW to be true.
9Try this for starters, sleeve98.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/04/opinion/thoughts-prayers-nra-funding-senators.html
10Thanks, Fred! That was extremely useful, and I’m glad you chimed in with it.
But the numbers in the above graphic assert “recipients of gun-rights money in 2016,” whereas the NYT article you cited provide the top “career recipients of NRA funding” – two different things, on both counts, period and source.
All I want to know are the methods and criteria for the Center For Responsive Politics’ work, where they got their data, how they compiled it. The complaint is that there are no wabbit twacks to follow in order to find out. It’s not skepticism (yet), it’s empiricism – the whole point is that without that information, this post risks relegation to the “Fake News” bin (I hate it when that happens).
11Now, Drutman acknowledges there’s a meaningful argument that Republicans and their voters have come to be pro-gun in part because of the influence of the NRA’s money. But the donations themselves are clearly not the reason Republican lawmakers fear opposing the NRA — the much bigger threat the gun rights group poses is its ability to mobilize and excite huge numbers of voters, Drutman says.
“The way you rise up in Republican politics is by supporting gun rights issues, and you do that because there a lot of Republican voters in the coalition who care very deeply about gun rights,” Drutman says.
12Another big donation list he’s on are health insurance corps that sell those crap health insurance policies – based in the great state of, yes, Texas.
13and if you dpn’t kiss the NRA’s fat ass they will primary you and get a more reliable vote in yer place. That is what wingnuts really fear.
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