The Evening Brief: Texas Headlines for June 8, 2012
New in The Texas Tribune:
- At Convention, Romney Booed, Dewhurst Gets Some Cheers: "After some at the GOP state convention booed Thursday at Gov. Rick Perry's mention of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, he got a mostly positive reception Friday during his own speech. That wasn't the case for Mitt Romney, whose name drew jeers from the audience during a speech from Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison."
- Straus Warns That Internal Bickering Could Hurt Texas GOP: "At the state GOP convention, House Speaker Joe Straus said Friday he was confident he would keep his job for the next session. And ...
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Adele Roberson
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/nra-alec-stand-your-ground
How the NRA and Its Allies Helped Spread a Radical Gun Law Nationwide
Years before Trayvon Martin was killed, gun lobbyists conspired to give Stand Your Ground shooters immunity everywhere.
—By Adam Weinstein
I do not remember seeing the NRA on a ballet anywhere.
Did you vote for them to run your country? Your State?
In the increasingly distant past, the National Rifle Association (NRA) largely advocated for policies related to hunting and marksmanship, but today its leaders are defined by unsavory conduct and the advancement of extreme, anti-government ideology. While the NRA innocuously describes itself as the “nation’s oldest civil rights organization,” this portrayal serves only as a smokescreen to mask the fact that the organization is a rogues gallery of the most odious voices in the contemporary Conservative Movement.
One only has to look to the NRA’s leadership to discover that the organization is operated by a group of individuals who promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-immigrant animus, religious bigotry, anti-environmentalism, and insurrectionism. Some active NRA board members have even had close relationships with brutal dictators in outside nations. Put simply, members of the NRA leadership no longer make for polite company.
Moreover, while superficially bipartisan, the NRA is closely aligned with the most extreme elements in the Republican Party and has brought a number of the GOP’s most influential operatives into positions of power within the organization. The GOP and NRA are now locked in a symbiotic relationship where Republican legislators advance the NRA’s extreme agenda while the NRA musters its hardcore supporters to serve as attack dogs for a wide range of conservative causes.
Check out their website.See the comments made by their directors. All of these shine a light on the background of members of NRA leadership, in large part by allowing them to comment on the issues of the day in their own words. It is intended as a resource for those who cherish moderation, civility and principled advocacy in American politics.
The NRA is not a sporting association anymore. They were that a long time ago. You may no longer be proud to be a member of this radical, hateful and fear mongering bunch of fools.