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A new ad about Jeff Flake's vote against background checks will be playing in Arizona through May 30. It's Caren Teves talking about her son and his fiance who were killed in the Aurora, Colorado, shooting, then showing the letter from Flake saying he supported background checks, which he went on to vote against.
Jeff "Both Ways" Flake continues to try and wriggle his way out of the bad publicity, saying he did vote to strengthen background checks, it's just that . . . (Fill in t...
Yesterday I called the Tucson office of Senator Jeff Flake. I told the staffer, I wanted to let y’all know that even though it’s been almost four weeks, people still remember that Senator Flake filibustered the most basic gun reform bill. She immediately interrupted me, saying:
"I’d just like to clarify one point: He did vote for cloture."
I said, Look, on the vote that mattered, Senator Flake supported the filibuster. Again she interrupted:
I can't bear to read past the headlines of the recent string of accidents and deaths connected with children with guns. However, things like that seem to qualify as unfortunate but unpreventable collateral damage for the NRA. Here's one of the displays at the recent NRA gun conference.
And the NRA youth magazine InSights (Get it? In [your] Sights?) tells children, if it's too cold to shoot outside, you can always use your BB gun inside and shoot into your fireplace.
As the Arizona Republic correctly noted a couple of weeks ago, Flake urges victims to continue gun control fight: "Gun violence victims said they were not impressed with Jeff Flake’s political posturing, and accused him of trying to appease voters from both sides of the gun control debate without risking retribution from the National Rifle Association."
Sen. Jeff Flake is back to his old ways, playing the media villagers for fools with his political posturing, trying t...
As the Arizona Republic correctly noted a couple of weeks ago, Flake urges victims to continue gun control fight: "Gun violence victims said they were not impressed with Jeff Flake’s political posturing, and accused him of trying to appease voters from both sides of the gun control debate without risking retribution from the National Rifle Association."
Sen. Jeff Flake is back to his old ways, playing the media villagers for fools with his political posturing, trying t...
Ed Kilgore at the Political Animal blog has some important posts about the growing use of eliminationist rhetoric by the far-right, and their threatening armed insurrection and sedition, None Dare Call It Treason, if they do not get their way in the democratic political process (see this Fairleigh Dickinson University poll in which 44% of Republicans, think “in the next few years, an armed revolution may be necessary to protect our liberties”):
Mark Kelly put the wood to the NRA leadership as NRA members arrived in Houston, Texas for the NRA convention, in a op-ed published in the Houston Chronicle. NRA leadership should refocus its priorities:
As a former Houstonian, I'm glad to see the National Rifle Association is holding its annual convention in Space City. I lived and worked not far from the George R. Brown Convention Center and I am confident that the thousands of NRA members who attend this year's meeting...
Those of you who remember your U.S. history will recall that Bleeding Kansas (1854-1861) was a proxy war between anti-slavery free-staters and pro-slavery "border ruffians" from the neighboring state of Missouri. It presaged the American Civil War, in which the Confederacy asserted the theory of nullification, interposition and secession.
While Kansas entered the Union as a free state in January 1861, 152 years later Neo-Confederate dead-enders are now in control of Kansa...
Ethan Orr (R, LD-9) is my representative, so I emailed him criticizing his Yes vote on HB 2455 which forbids a city -- like, say, Tucson -- from destroying guns. As today's Republicans go, Orr is a reasonably reasonable guy who I've had reasonable conversations with, so it's not a wasted effort to email him. The problem is, after he hits on some lovely sounding general principles we agree on and gets down to specifics, he and I usually part company.
Last Saturday at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, comedian Conan O'Brien asked this question as a joke:
"Incidentally, you may not know this, but Wayne LaPierre is merely the executive vice president of the NRA. Which begs the question, how freaking crazy do you have to be to be the actual president of the NRA? He's not even at the top."
Well boys and girls, the answer to this question is batshit freaking crazy. This weekend at the NRA Convention in Houston, Tex...
Using the heading, "Whoops! We found Senator [fill in the name]’s receipt from the gun lobby," Demand Action to End Gun Violence has a series of Facebook posts about how much money senators voting against background checks received from the gun lobby. Here's Flake's receipt.
During the 2012 campaign, Ethan Orr (aka "E.Orr") fashioned himself after moderate Tucson Republicans like former Reps. Pete Hershberger and Toni Hellon, and said he hopes to work with the southern Arizona Democratic delegation to pass legislation that can help the people and Tucson. The local media bought his act. Orr was elected to the House.
Rep. Orr (R-LD 9), voted in favor of HB 2455, which clarifies that local law-enforcement agencies must sell guns they acquire in...
A 5 year old boy shot his 2 year old sister with a gun given to him for his birthday. The gun was left in a corner with a bullet still in it. The family say they didn't know about the bullet.
These days, it's considered akin to child abuse to put a young child in a car without belting him/her into the proper car seat. That wasn't true 20 years ago. Even seat belts were considered optional and a bit wimply a few decades ago. Now, not wearing one is considered reckless. People used...
So how's that "De-Kook the Capitol" thing working out for ya, Laurie Roberts? Gov. Jan Brewer, engaged in a civil war in the Tea-Publican Party over her Medicaid (AHCCCS) restoration plan, appeased her GOP crazy base by signing several bills on Monday.
HB 2455 clarifies that local law-enforcement agencies must sell guns they acquire in situations such as gun-buyback programs -- even when the gun owner desires that their weapon be destroyed, in violation of their private ...
In just three short months in the U.S. Senate, our boy Jeff Flake has managed to dethrone the Septegenarian Ninja Turtle, Mitch McConnell, as the most disliked senator among Americans. Getting caught lying to a grieving mother who lost her son to gun violence will do that. The Atlantic Wire reports, How Jeff Flake Became the Most Unpopular Senator in America:
Public Policy Polling, in their latest survey on the fallout of the recent vote on gun legislation, explains just ...
Maybe, just maybe, politicians will soon come to realize there are political dangers in supporting the NRA, not just in voting against the NRA position. Case in point: the plummeting poll numbers of Jeff Flake, who said he supported an increase in background checks, then voted no.
The backlash appears to be the harshest for Flake, whose standing in Arizona cratered following his “no” vote on background checks. With an approval rating of 32 percent, Flake is already among the ...
It's no feel-good story that a man at an Albuquerque church vaulted over pews and stabbed members of the choir before he was held stopped and held down by parishioners. But the good news is, the four people who were stabbed are alive and stable.
If the man attacked a group of choir members standing shoulder to shoulder with a gun, the event would almost certainly had a bloodier and more tragic conclusion.
Last week was an outrageous news week for our country with the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, the explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant on Wednesday, and the shoutout, manhunt, killing, and capture of the bomber brothers at the end of the week. Whew.
This Monday on MSNBC, Chris Hayes offered an interesting look back at these events. (Video link below.) During the week of the bombings, there was continuous coverage of the "terrorist attack" in Boston and continuous p...
