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Sen. Joe Manchin isnt up for re-election until 2018, but he expects to run his first re-election ad by the end of the week, fighting back against the NRAs attack on his support for gun control legislation.
The NRA began airing 30-second TV ads attacking the West Virginia Democrat last week, slamming him for sponsoring expanded gun background check legislation in a $100,000 ad buy. Manchin will respond with a matching ad buy, Politico reported on Mondays Morning Joe. The NRA member and longtime A-rated politician will tape the ads this week in West Virginia.
Its been two months since the Senate shot down the background check deal Manchin struck with Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican. Leading up to the vote, Manchin negotiated with the NRA, working with them to implement their suggestions into the bill, but lost the NRAs support at the last minute.
The pair of dueling ads come as the background check fight is gearing up again: gun control advocates led a week of advocacy marking six-month anniversary of the Newtown school shooting, kicking off a second legislative push for background checks. Manchin and others leading the way on background checks hope to bring another vote before the end of the year....
Read More: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/06/17/sen-manchin-fires-back-at-nra-on-gun-control/
Staph
(6,257 posts)I'm in West Virginia, and I've been seeing those ads on television in the Charleston/Huntington area, beginning either Saturday or Sunday, June 15 or 16.
I'm really torn on this whole subject. Manchin is definitely a Democrat in name only, who has in the past actually supported Republican candidates (specifically Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito, who will be running for Jay Rockefeller's US Senate seat in 2014). But I suppose a DINO is better than an actual Republican. (And don't tell me we need to run a progressive Democrat against Joe in the primary in 2016. That's a lovely idea, in a world full of unicorns and rainbows. But I live in the real world, in the real West Virginia, and Joe Manchin is the only candidate that hold that seat for now.)
galileoreloaded
(2,571 posts)this seems settled.