Actually millions are being spend by MoveOn.org on huge salaries and free rent.

I found it very interesting to look at MoveOn.org’s expenditures and see how may $100k+ salaries are listed. I counted 14 salaries of over $100k including payments for rent. Many more people were listed with salaries just under $100k.

For contrast not ONE salary entry, of any amount, for the NRA PAC.

Tell me again how the NRA is buying people off with wheelbarrows full of cash….

This dilutes their message. Here’s a bajillion dollars for your campaign, and we expect you do raise taxes, nationalize health care, subsidize all college tuition, feed the poor, oh yeah and take away those scary guns.

Then you have the NRA (who, frankly, shouldn’t give a fracking dime to any politicians. That’s not how it’s supposed to work) who say “Here’s a couple of bucks. Oh yeah, and if you vote for that gun control measure, I’ll make sure all 3-30 million of my members know about it with 18 different mailings in one week. You know, those people who actually have to vote for you in order for you to keep your job.”

None of the three presidential candidates is a win for the NRA. On the congressional level, the Republican Party has self-destructed sufficiently to guarantee continued Democratic hegemony.

Sarah could afford to take a long vacation in the gun-free paradise of Jamaica until January, and (assuming she makes it back alive) could pretty much come home to occupy her own personal office in the White House.

Susan Patricof, the one who held the 3/4 million fundraiser for Clinton, personally donated over $100,000 to the DNC during Hillary’s Senate campaign.

Barbara Hohlt, co-founder of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and Executive Director of States United to Prevent Gun Violence, has personally given $9000 to Carolyn McCarthy.

Liza Lowenstein, the one who held the $2500/person fundraiser for John Kerry with guests Vanessa Kerry and Chris Heinz in attendence, personally gave an additional $2000 to Kerry and $2250 more to the DNC during the same period.

It is those of us who are “rural Americans” who are the LEGAL owners of guns.
It is us who are the ones who will be deprived of our LEGAL possessions and NOT the criminals who will get whatever they want anyway by ILLEGAL means.
I am firmly against the hysterical gun controllers who have no legitimate basis for confiscating my ALEGALLY owned guns.

JACOB says:
“I know another anti who held a Clinton Senatorial fundraiser and brought in $750,000 in one night for Hillary.”

AND:

“However, I know antis who write personal checks for more than NRA gives out.”

Names??

I’m originally from Chicago and now live in Wisconsin.
Check out how many people there are with guns during deer season here.
If guns are so “dangerous”, then why aren’t there hundreds of thousands of murders here??

Sebastian SIH posted some interesting figures yesterday concerning Brady v. NRA PAC contributions. Propoganda is all good and well, but when it comes to real evidence of which side of the debate has more passion, actions speak louder than words. By the…

When was the last time a candidate touted his or her endorsement by a gun control organization?

I would assume the NRA is focused. Again, I would think that motivating 3 to 30 million people to vote on a specific issue holds a lot more weight than a million dollars to run two TV ads amongst a few people with many goals.

Brady, etc. gets their influence through sheer dollars controlled. One of the local antis held a fundraiser in ’04 for John Kerry at $2500/plate and raised more money in a couple of hours than NRA spends in the state over the course of several years including the salaries of their lobbyists. I know another anti who held a Clinton Senatorial fundraiser and brought in $750,000 in one night for Hillary.

Finally, look at their contributions: Brady contributed $500 to political campaigns, 100% of it to Democrats. The NRA contributed $413,345, 77% of it to Republicans, and 23% of it to Democrats.

Gee, I wonder why the NRA is more effective. :D