NRA Backing Pryor On Gun Vote
Source: Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The National Rifle Association is buying airtime on Arkansas radio stations to defend Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor's vote against gun purchase background checks proposed by President Barack Obama.
The NRA said the ad will run Wednesday through June 25 in a number of state media markets.
The 60-second spot mentions the 2008 murder of Arkansas Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney and says nothing in the legislation Pryor voted against would have prevented the killing.
A gun control group co-founded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, ran a 30-second ad in May that attacked Pryor for his vote. The ad didn't mention Gwatney by name but the group referred to him in a news release. Pryor called the ad "disgusting" and said it politicized a friend's death.
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rdharma
(6,057 posts)I wish Pryor would join his like thinking buddy, Joe Liebermann, in retirement!
Carnage251
(562 posts)Kinda like the far-right republican that replaced Blanche Lincoln. Because fuck having control of the senate.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Pryor is a worthless DINO ..... Actually a harmful DINO! Good riddance.
NickB79
(19,277 posts)There is no comparison here. I'd take a DINO like Pryor over the most sane teabagger every day. At least he'd vote with the Democratic party some of the time, vs. the ZERO support any teabagger would give us.
The fact posters here at DU would even entertain the idea of swapping out politicians in this fashion is sickening.
Carnage251
(562 posts)CokeMachine
(1,018 posts)This is AR. What in your immeasurable wisdom makes you believe a gun controller would ever win this senate seat. I'll keep the senate majority -- thank you. You on the other hand can keep promoting the GOP takeover of the senate. Who's side are you on anyway??
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(3,731 posts)to sow discord and discontent, if that's his mission, he's failed badly.
Lurks Often
(5,455 posts)At least that's what the anti-rights, gun control crowd keeps insisting.
lancer78
(1,495 posts)What better way to protect Dem senators in red states then to have the NRA campaign for them.
premium
(3,731 posts)And the NRA isn't politicizing it also?
What fucking hypocrisy from Pryor and the NRA.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)....... why doesn't he just join them?
Same goes for those defending Pryor!
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)rdharma
(6,057 posts)On what important issues did he vote ..... Democratic?
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)The Affordable Care Act. Senator Pryor is taking his lumps for that vote:
http://thehill.com/video/campaign/304961-conservative-group-hits-pryor-on-obamacare-vote-in-new-ad
NutmegYankee
(16,204 posts)The 25-40% of Democrats that own firearms are just republicans in disguise, didn't you know? Access to healthcare, poverty, equality, bah. All that matters to the purists is gun control.
Yes, it's sarcastic, but I've been quite appalled at DU as of late. But hey, you probably shouldn't listen to me, I'm a rural DUer, and as stated in one thread, we rural folk are all uneducated and have lower IQs.
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)premium
(3,731 posts)Good job finding those.
warrant46
(2,205 posts)Carnage251
(562 posts)rdharma
(6,057 posts)Go check it out and tell me if you think Pryor is worth a damn ..... You won't have to go far to see what a good "Republican" he is!
govtrack link to Pryor's "accomplishments": http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/mark_pryor/300080
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)So yeah his whole record does speak for itself.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Which is OK. In fact, I hope it was a good teaching point for him. During his search for "cherry picked examples", I hope it made Freddie painfully aware of how many times Pryor "caucuses" with the Republicans.
NickB79
(19,277 posts)With the Democrats.
You're willing to throw away SOME Democratic support for ZERO Democratc support whatsoever because Pryor will not support EVERY SINGLE ONE of your personal beliefs. This is a temper tantrum of epic proportion.
Like I said, I'm amazed DU has sunk to this level of intellect.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Hmmmmmmm?!!!
NickB79
(19,277 posts)Pryor would probably vote to approve Keystone XL but at least approve of increasing energy efficiency standards though.
Any one of the GOP that would replace him would vote to defund the EPA all together, have the employees prosecuted as terrorists, and pass a law requiring every American to drive a Hummer.
THAT is the difference.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)PROBABLY?!!!! Pryor is already on record supporting Keystone XL and fracking.
No. A teabagger would vote exacty the way Pryor does on environmental issues.
How about corporate welfare and tax breaks for the extremely wealthy? Hmmmmm?!!!!!
Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)premium
(3,731 posts)repub that would be elected in AR.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Riiiiight?!
premium
(3,731 posts)Got it.
Pryor is a hell of a lot more of a progressive than any repub that would get elected in that state.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)And I think your remark is shamefully "elitist"!
premium
(3,731 posts)Underestimating the intelligence of the people of Arkansas? WTF are you talking about.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Don't you think you are underestimating them?
premium
(3,731 posts)because that's nothing like I wrote.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)"Pryor is a hell of a lot more of a progressive than any repub that would get elected in that state."
That seems to indicate that you think a DINO (like Pryor) is preferable to the Republican alternative............ like the only choice possible in AR is between a DINO and a tea bagger!
That's an insult to the intelligence of AR voters! Don't you think?
premium
(3,731 posts)but if that's the way you want to interpret it, have at it.
rdharma
(6,057 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)rdharma
(6,057 posts).......... RIIIIGHT?!!!