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04-11-2013, 10:46 PM
Here we go folks. Establishment rag POLITICO has started the roll out of the Newtown families. Expect them to be all over the Sunday propaganda shows conducting emotional interviews with Schieffer, Stephanopoulos and Candy Crowley. Expect wavering Republicans to be wheeled out on NBC's Meet The Press to be badgered by David Gregory. This is a classic propaganda show being put on to build support for their big surprise on Monday or early next week which will likely be the assault weapons ban and ammo restrictions.
The liars will swear blind all weekend that 'no one is talking about banning firearms' and 'no one is going to restrict your 2nd Amendment' but just wait until Monday or next week if the debate in the Senate is still going. The Bill is called the Second Amendment Protection Act (!). How Orwellian.
They're not just doing all this for expanded background checks. They have something far more devious in mind but will spring it on Monday once they've softened up the American public. Welcome to tyranny!
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Newtown families: Victims turn lobbyists
When a lobbyist for families of Newtown shooting victims called the office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to set up a meeting, the first response was a standard D.C. offer. They could get a meeting with her staff, and a quick and simple “hello” from Collins herself, they were told.
The families’ answer: Not good enough. According to their lobbyists, the families have a rule against staff-only meetings: they won’t do them. They insist on sitting down with the senators themselves.
That rule is just one of the ways that the Newtown families, political novices just a few months ago, are proving to be savvy, effective advocates as they promote the gun legislation that has finally begun to move through the Senate. The families are well-educated, and many are well-off. They have been polished and sharp on TV. They’re mostly non-political, but quite accomplished in their own fields. With access to money and media, they’re using persistence, visibility — and, most all, their unique moral authority — to help prod Senate action. They also have their own lobbyists — several of them, in fact.
They don’t try to sound like wonks or pundits or operatives. They just tell their heart-breaking stories, weaving in a demand for action that is respectful but forceful. As a result, senators respond to them as bereaved parents, not advocates.
“These are smart, articulate people, who don’t have a scintilla of Washington about them,” said Matt Bennett of the centrist Democratic group Third Way, which has been helping the families navigate D.C. “But they virtually cannot be denied a meeting. There are not many groups of people that can get a meeting with any senator they want, whenever they want.”
What started as a support group is now a lobbying force unlike any other to descend on Capitol Hill. The family members typically begin their pitch to senators softly, telling the story of the child that they lost. They gently say they could not have imagined themselves in this position, but they’re doing it to honor the memory of their children. They say they’re supporters of the Second Amendment, and just want to have a conversation.
But there’s nothing subtle about the way some of them conclude their visits: by leaving behind a color card with a photo of their slain relative. Nicole Hockley, who introduced President Barack Obama in Hartford this week, hands senators a card with three photos of her son Dylan, who was 6 when he was gunned down. One frame shows him grinning, in a Superman shirt.
“Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06 – 12/14/12,” the card says. “Honor his life. Stand with us for change. NOW IS THE TIME.”
More State propaganda:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/behind-the-curtain-newtown-89977.html?hp=t1
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Notice they're working on Susan Collins. Curious how they can say "not good enough" to her suggestion of meeting with staff. These families are from CT not Maine. They have no business demanding to see Susan Collins and making demands but they're desperate to see her because she's one of a handful of Republicans who will likely support the AWB and ammo restrictions. She's a sucker for the emotional appeal and prepared to vote for crap. Bloomberg knows who to target.
Also, as per the quotes, if they're so smart are they incapable of the logic that suggests if the principal had a gun and Sandy Hook wasn't a Gun Free Zone then Lanza would have been taken out before he could mow down their children? Such a thought can't be beyond such smart people can it?
The liars will swear blind all weekend that 'no one is talking about banning firearms' and 'no one is going to restrict your 2nd Amendment' but just wait until Monday or next week if the debate in the Senate is still going. The Bill is called the Second Amendment Protection Act (!). How Orwellian.
They're not just doing all this for expanded background checks. They have something far more devious in mind but will spring it on Monday once they've softened up the American public. Welcome to tyranny!
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Newtown families: Victims turn lobbyists
When a lobbyist for families of Newtown shooting victims called the office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to set up a meeting, the first response was a standard D.C. offer. They could get a meeting with her staff, and a quick and simple “hello” from Collins herself, they were told.
The families’ answer: Not good enough. According to their lobbyists, the families have a rule against staff-only meetings: they won’t do them. They insist on sitting down with the senators themselves.
That rule is just one of the ways that the Newtown families, political novices just a few months ago, are proving to be savvy, effective advocates as they promote the gun legislation that has finally begun to move through the Senate. The families are well-educated, and many are well-off. They have been polished and sharp on TV. They’re mostly non-political, but quite accomplished in their own fields. With access to money and media, they’re using persistence, visibility — and, most all, their unique moral authority — to help prod Senate action. They also have their own lobbyists — several of them, in fact.
They don’t try to sound like wonks or pundits or operatives. They just tell their heart-breaking stories, weaving in a demand for action that is respectful but forceful. As a result, senators respond to them as bereaved parents, not advocates.
“These are smart, articulate people, who don’t have a scintilla of Washington about them,” said Matt Bennett of the centrist Democratic group Third Way, which has been helping the families navigate D.C. “But they virtually cannot be denied a meeting. There are not many groups of people that can get a meeting with any senator they want, whenever they want.”
What started as a support group is now a lobbying force unlike any other to descend on Capitol Hill. The family members typically begin their pitch to senators softly, telling the story of the child that they lost. They gently say they could not have imagined themselves in this position, but they’re doing it to honor the memory of their children. They say they’re supporters of the Second Amendment, and just want to have a conversation.
But there’s nothing subtle about the way some of them conclude their visits: by leaving behind a color card with a photo of their slain relative. Nicole Hockley, who introduced President Barack Obama in Hartford this week, hands senators a card with three photos of her son Dylan, who was 6 when he was gunned down. One frame shows him grinning, in a Superman shirt.
“Dylan Hockley, 3/8/06 – 12/14/12,” the card says. “Honor his life. Stand with us for change. NOW IS THE TIME.”
More State propaganda:
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/behind-the-curtain-newtown-89977.html?hp=t1
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Notice they're working on Susan Collins. Curious how they can say "not good enough" to her suggestion of meeting with staff. These families are from CT not Maine. They have no business demanding to see Susan Collins and making demands but they're desperate to see her because she's one of a handful of Republicans who will likely support the AWB and ammo restrictions. She's a sucker for the emotional appeal and prepared to vote for crap. Bloomberg knows who to target.
Also, as per the quotes, if they're so smart are they incapable of the logic that suggests if the principal had a gun and Sandy Hook wasn't a Gun Free Zone then Lanza would have been taken out before he could mow down their children? Such a thought can't be beyond such smart people can it?