Posted on 12/20/2012 10:04:57 AM PST by neverdem
Would people be buying up guns and ammo in record numbers like this if they trusted their government?
That bullsh*t could have been written by any number of NRA haters who post here on FR pretending to be 2nd Amendment supporters.
In case you haven't noticed, this is 2012. Ronald Reagan was a Democrat at one time. Have you ever heard of Harlan Carter and Cincinnati?
You're not as smart as I'd hoped you'd be. How about a large serving of crow, http://www.enotes.com/gun-control-act-1968-reference/gun-control-act-1968?
Enjoy!
Do you not realize that the NRA lawyers wrote EVERY federal violation of our gun rights?
The last one they wrote was signed into law by W.
So speaking the truth is denegration?
Then they denegrate themselves.
It was definitely not a different org. They wrote the key provisions of the bill that has disarmed almost all of our returning Afgan veterans, that was signed into law by W.
Same ol’ same ol’.
You must be a kid. I lived through it, and fought the NRA that I belonged to over that law.
Save your childish propaganda for your own kind (the willingly deceived).
CREDO on the signs...
CREDO (formerly Working Assets Wireless) is an American for-profit mobile virtual network operator headquartered in San Francisco, California.
CREDO’s mobile network operator is Sprint Nextel.
CREDO Mobile is a division of Working Assets.
In 2009, CREDO Mobile was recognized by the nonprofit Planning and Conservation League as the Environmental Business of the Year
In November 2007, Working Assets Wireless announced that it was changing its name to CREDO Mobile to better reflect the company’s values: A belief that people, through donations to nonprofits and political activism, can effect progressive change.[2] The names of its phone services were changed to CREDO Mobile and CREDO Long Distance.
The name of its credit card, however, remains the Working Assets Credit Card.
Role in the United States presidential election of 2008
To increase voter turnout in the United States presidential election, 2008, CREDO Action started an initiative called Pollworkers for Democracy, in which hired volunteers to staff polling places and ensure fair voting practices. For their Text Out the Vote campaign, CREDO invited users to enter a friends’ phone numbers to text them each a reminder to vote on election day.
Several U.S. states approved CREDO’s online voter-registration tool. At CREDO’s GoVote.org website, voters could look-up their nearest polling place.
Becky Bond is the president of the CREDO SuperPAC and the political director of CREDO Mobile. Becky has been at the forefront of the online to offline organizing movement since she joined CREDO in 2000, combining innovative technology, rapid response, measurable results, volunteer engagement and a passionate commitment to winning progressive victories.
Organizing with CREDO, Becky has grown a community of 3 million activists who take action on issues ranging from defending choice to protecting net neutrality to fighting climate change and ending unjust wars. She also led the 2004 campaign to register one million anti-war citizens as well as the “Hell NO on 23” campaign, CREDO’s victorious 2010 effort to crush Texas oil and save California’s global warming law. Becky serves on the board of the New Organizing Institute.
Matthew ‘Mudcat’ Arnold,
Campaign Manager, CREDO SuperPAC
Matthew “Mudcat” Arnold is the campaign manager for the CREDO SuperPAC. Mudcat is a veteran of over a dozen campaigns for state and federal office, and is a national field trainer for Democracy for America. He’s run campaigns for progressive champions like Lloyd Doggett and was the field director for Mary Jo Kilroy and Darcy Burner. Mudcat has designed sophisticated voter outreach operations for MoveOn.org and the Sierra Club, and in 2009, he helped launch the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. He’s originally from Booneville, Mississippi.
Michael Kieschnick,
Senior Advisor, CREDO SuperPac
Michael Kieschnick is a senior advisor to CREDO SuperPac, and is the President, CEO and co-founder of CREDO Mobile. Responding to widespread manipulation of elections, Michael co-founded in 2006 the Secretary of State Project, which worked to elect nine reform-minded progressives to the chief election officer positions in critical states. Separate from his work at CREDO and the Secretary of State Project, Michael serves on the board of the League of Conservation Voters. He is originally from Dallas, Texas.
http://act.credoaction.com/take_down/about.html
You must be ignorant or a senile nonagenarian. I've been an NRA life member for over 4 decades. Save your mindless accusations and bullsh*t for gullible libtards.
What is the CREDO SuperPAC and who is CREDO?
The CREDO SuperPAC is a political committee working to defeat ten of the most odious Tea Party members of Congress. Most super PACs are vehicles for big corporations or wealthy right-wing activists to make unlimited contributions to pay for expensive attack ads to help elect Republican politicians. The CREDO SuperPAC is primarily funded by thousands of small-dollar contributions to fund an unprecedented volunteer grassroots effort to take down Tea Party incumbents in Congress.
CREDO is a social change organization that fights for progressive values. The people behind CREDO Mobile helped found the CREDO SuperPAC, and the members of the company’s action arm CREDO Action are powering the effort through their small-dollar donations and volunteer efforts.
http://act.credoaction.com/take_down/faq.html
Aren’t we supposed to be against super PACs?
Our system of campaign finance is in deep trouble. In fact, we think it’s one of the single greatest threats to our democracy there is.
We want corporate money banned from politics entirely. We support public financing of campaigns. We have fought for and will continue fighting for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and the travesty of so-called corporate personhood.
The CREDO SuperPAC is different from others in that we actually represent 2.9 million progressive customers and activists, who are connected with CREDO precisely because we fight for progressive values
What is ActBlue, the name that appears on my credit card statement when I make a contribution online?
ActBlue makes it easy for people like us to raise small-dollar contributions to defeat Republican candidates. They don’t raise any money for Republicans. And their process for taking credit card contributions — and getting those contributions quickly into the bank accounts of campaigns like ours — is extremely fast and effective. We use ActBlue because it’s the easiest and most cost-effective way for us to put your contributions into action defeating Tea Party incumbents.
ABOUT THE CREDO SUPERPAC
The CREDO SuperPAC launched the Take Down the Tea Party Ten campaign to hold the worst congressional extremists accountable for their radical attacks on women, science and equality. We engaged millions of activists to power a unique, effective and unabashedly progressive field campaign, with staff, offices and volunteers in all 10 districts — and dealt a knockout blow to tea party extremism in Congress.
http://act.credoaction.com/take_down/the-ten.html
THE TEA PARTY TEN: UNFIT TO SERVE
It’s astonishing that every one of these actual, elected representatives to the United States Congress have voted to redefine rape, to gut the Clean Air Act, to reject the science of climate change, to let women die, and to abolish Medicare. But that’s just the beginning of the racist, sexist, anti-science, hypocritical and downright crazy things that have been said and done by some of the most odious members of the most extreme Congress in history.
The super PAC arm of cell phone company CREDO Mobile says it plans to spend about $3 million in its effort to “take down the Tea Party Ten.” According to the organization’s fund-raising website, “These tea party extremists in Congress have spent the last year attacking women, science and the very notion of equality under the law. Their racist, sexist, anti-science, hypocritical, corrupt and downright crazy actions and beliefs make them unfit to serve in Congress.”
The group currently has a list of six Congressmen it is working against. An additional four are going to be named later. Unlike a traditional super PAC, though, CREDO says its operation is based on small donations and millions of volunteers.
Becky Bond, president of the super PAC, and our guest here in just a moment, says, “Where Karl Rove and the Koch brothers can use shady money from a few hidden donors to fund a barrage of TV attack ads, this super PAC will empower local voters and our list of 2.5 million activists to build a grassroots campaign that is as hard-hitting as it is progressive. Using innovative tactics, technology and good, old-fashioned grassroots organizing, we’re going to kick some tea party congressmen out of office.”
BOND: Yeah, we’re 100 percent anti-tea party and we’re going to run a good field campaign with grassroots volunteers. We — the research shows us that volunteers talking to voters is far more effective than watching a television ad. So, they can pump their millions and millions into ads, but we know that we can spend less money on getting grassroots activists involved and, you know, walking and talking to people in their neighborhoods and making phone calls and protesting at the offices of these tea party incumbents when they say things that are racist or when they do things that are sexist. And this is how we’re going to win.
http://current.com/shows/countdown/blog/becky-bond-on-credo-super-pacs-mission-to-take-down-the-tea-party
Monday, December 17, 2012
12:00pm until 1:00pm in EST
“Gather at Spirit of Justice Park from 12:00 - 12:15 (corner of New Jersey Avenue & D Street SE) near Capitol South Metro and march to NRA Federal Affairs Division at 410 1st St SE in Washington DC.”
Join CREDO for an emergency march on the NRA office in Washington, DC. Please share this event with friends who might want to attend.
After the shooter Adam Lanza, no one is more to blame for the massacre of 20 first graders and six women at the Sandy Hook Elementary School than the National Rifle Association. To stop the senseless killing we must first stop the NRA.
http://www.facebook.com/events/307554749363856
Join us tomorrow morning to deliver our 200,000 signatures (and counting!) asking the NRA to stand down and allow Congress to pass gun control legislation. We’ll be meeting before the NRA press conference. Information at the link below. Be sure to RSVP!
Taking Down the Tea Party Ten: A Leftist Super PAC Smears Conservatives To Safeguard “Progressive Change”
Saturday, October 6, 2012 1:30
Community organizer Becky Bond, president of Credo Super PAC, described the committee’s mission:
For over 25 years Credo has been involved in progressive politics. We’ve been fighting former House Speaker Newt Gingrich since the mid ’90s, and we’ve been pushing for progressive change. And let me just tell you, in our history we have never seen extremism in the Congress like we’ve seen since the Tea Party wave in 2010 that was funded on just buckets of super PAC money from the Koch brothers and from people like Karl Rove. And we’ve seen a lot of history, and we know this is bad. And as good people of conscience, we’ve decided that we need to strike back, and it’s time to fight back, and we need to take down some of these Tea Party Republicans who are destroying our democracy.
The fact that the super PAC retained a corrupt Marxist in Chicago as a consultant says a lot about the organization. The committee paid $50,417 to Strategic Consulting Group, the firm of convicted swindler and tax cheat Robert Creamer. An admitted fan of radical godfather Saul Alinsky, Creamer has reportedly visited the Obama White House nearly 60 times since he was let out of the hoosegow. In prison he wrote a book widely hailed by leftists that later served as a blueprint for Obamacare. Creamer, who is married to far-left Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), also used to be a lobbyist for George Soros’s Open Society Institute.
You appear to be our biggest ‘libtard’ who doesn’t like the truth.
Stupid loud mouth kid.
You need a psychiatrist, psycho.
Wups, tipped your hand there, buddy.
Not smart. But go ahead, be my guest -- spell it out: ZERO GUNS! EVER! ANYWHERE! GET THEM ALL -- DISARM THE PEOPLE!
Which translates into Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic as "We are stupid beyond belief, and beyond the wildest dreams of blood-lust; please come kill us now!!"
Lots of senior congresscritters, too, remember how Jack Brooks, 40-year-plus Democrat congressman from a safe SE Texas district full of OCAW Union members, under intense pressure from Bill Clinton, let Clinton's gun-ban "crime bill" slide through his committee, hoping nobody would notice that it was Brooks who let the bill come to a vote.
That fall, his voters crushed him at the polls and sent a completely unknown neophyte Republican to Congress in his stead.
Look at the picture.
There’s a handful of people who showed up for the protest and most have that ‘I’m a professional protester’ look. The photographer did his best to make it look like a large group - it’s not.
Remember Chick fil A? Our side showed up almost a million strong - liberals didn’t show up even when the press promised the 20 who might show up great press. Don’t buy obvious lies... make them work for it
It’s NOT 1968 - liberals just wish it was 1968...
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