Posted on 08/16/2004 8:50:08 AM PDT by ConservativeGadfly
PING!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Vernon Robinson!!!
Virginia also has taken part in leadership "training" classes that have a definite socialist flavor.
PING!!!!
Next, Virginia Foxx will be claiming that she was Kerry's swiftboat.
PING!!!!!!!
ok -- who has the second amendment ping lists????
Need this info out to everyone on those ping lists!!!!! The election is TUESDAY!!!!!
BTTT for Robinson!
BTTT
bump
The article has no links to the NRA endorsement or to the email.
If you get the admin moderator to fix the link, then I'll ping everyone. Right now, it will just cause an unproductive "bruhaha".
This has all happened so fast. I have the statements, but they have not posted them on either the NRA or the GRNC websites. Literally this happened at 11 AM eastern. phew.
It should be up on both sites soon. I am quite certain that either organization will be more than happy to verify their press releases in the meantime. Soon as I get a direct link, I will let you all know.
I can also email you privately their statements that are on their letterhead, etc. (In fact if anyone wants them, freepmail me with your email address and I'll happily email them to ya!)
Ok, friends. Here is what has transpired.
On Friday, the Robinson campaign received word that a direct mail piece from the Foxx campaign had dropped along with a radio ad claiming that the NRA and GRNC (Grassroots, North Carolina -- a gun rights group) had endorsed her, not Vernon Robinson.
The Robinson campaign knew that GRNC does not, in fact, make "endorsements", only "recommendations" and that Robinson had received the four star "recommendation."
In addition, the Robinson campaign knew that as a rule, the NRA stays out of primaries and remains neutral.
So the Robinson campaign called GRNC and Cong Bob Barr (who has endorsed Robinson and is an NRA board member) called the NRA. Both said that indeed, they were NOT endorsing Foxx and they would send statements to that effect for a press conference today (Monday morning).
The Robinson campaign received the GRNC statement (see above) and DURING the press conference this morning, the statement from the NRA came over both the fax and via email. The statement from the NRA was handed to Vernon Robinson in the middle of the press conference - and suffice it to say, neither Vernon nor anyone on the campaign was expecting an endorsement from the NRA, only a statement refuting Foxx's claims.
When press started calling the NRA about the endorsement, it turns out that they did not mean to endose Robinson (even though their statement shown above CLEARLY endorses Robinson) and are calling it "a clerical error." But they stand by the statement that Foxx is indeed not endorsed by the NRA and are remaining neutral in the race.
I know that is a long explanation -- but I wanted to make certain that there was full disclosure and no mistaken impressions here.
Darn it all.
RKBA ping!
RKBA ping!
RKBA ping!
Good luck to Mr. Robinson !!
This will help Robinson, especially in the rural areas of the disctrict.
I wish he was in my district. We are stuck with the bird brain David Price.
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