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Related: About this forumControllers threaten Democrats
The gun control group also plans to turn up the pressure on Sens. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), who both previously voted against the Manchin-Toomey background check bill in 2013.
During a speech last fall in New York, Schumer told the Brady Campaign he would lead the charge for expanded background checks in the Senate.
If we could do it then, we can do it now, Schumer said in his November speech, according to Brady. We are going to bring the universal background check bill to the floor of the senate early next year, and with your help we are going to win.
The Brady group was then disappointed to not see legislation from Schumer.
During a speech last fall in New York, Schumer told the Brady Campaign he would lead the charge for expanded background checks in the Senate.
If we could do it then, we can do it now, Schumer said in his November speech, according to Brady. We are going to bring the universal background check bill to the floor of the senate early next year, and with your help we are going to win.
The Brady group was then disappointed to not see legislation from Schumer.
http://thehill.com/regulation/legislation/280024-schumer-to-offer-gun-control-bill
Heitkamp is one of my favorites, she will just tell them to pound sand. Schumer though is going to cough up a bill that will be DOA in committee.
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Controllers threaten Democrats (Original Post)
Kang Colby
May 2016
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TeddyR
(2,493 posts)1. So controllers are going to attack Heitkamp for not doing enough on gun control?
When she represents citizens who do not favor increased gun control? Smart move jackasses. Maybe you should attack Manchin too, or Reid.
Kang Colby
(1,941 posts)2. Or Mitch McConnell ...eom
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,577 posts)3. K&R n/t
TeddyR
(2,493 posts)4. If you don't toe the controller line you get attacked
Perhaps the controllers would prefer a republican senator replace Heitkamp, because that's what we'll have if she votes against the wishes of the people she was elected to represent. Maybe a republican should replace Manchin too. Then in addition to gun control going nowhere, other issues that Dems support will be dead as well.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,577 posts)5. But isn't that how...
...a culture war works?
If you don't toe the controller line you get attacked
Guns act by themselves. They'll vote in a republican if you don't keep them locked up.
Maybe a republican should replace Manchin too.