NRA Extremists Retaliate in Colorado

The NRA is retaliating against Colorado Democrats for passing tough new gun violence prevention laws earlier this year, pushing forward with the first two recall elections in the state’s history. Please chip in $3 each to John Morse and Angela Giron, the two Democrats targeted by the NRA. After a string of electoral losses in 2012 and earlier this year in the IL-02 special election, the NRA is going all-in on these recalls in Colorado. This whole recall campaign is an effort to prove they’re still relevant electorally—and it’s our chance to prove they’re irrelevant. Gun violence may be the defining issue of 2014 and the NRA will do whatever it takes to win. Here’s a sneak peek inside the NRA recall operation, per Mother Jones: Basic Freedom Defense Fund, a new 501(c)(4) non-profit group the NRA teamed up with to collect signatures for the recalls, has run into trouble, too. In April, Basic Freedom Defense Fund replaced its spokesman, Nick Andrasik, after the Colorado Springs Independent caught him referring to two female Democratic state Reps. as a "vacuous c-nt" and a "stunning c-nt," and a male Democratic Rep. as a "f-cking retard" on a message board for AR-15 owners. And on its Facebook page, BFDF trumpets a quote from Morse in which he warns that "People who own guns are essentially a sickness on our soul." That quote is fabricated. Morse never said anything like that—although he did cite Martin Luther King to argue that violence is a "sickness." These are the people we’re up against. We need to beat them. Beat the NRA: Chip in $3 to each of the two Democrats targeted in the recalls. Keep fighting, Michael Langenmayr Campaign Director, Daily Kos

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