New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Rep. Gabby Giffords took on gun reform with the best of modern campaign tactics – spend millions on new groups, air slick TV ads and tap into social media.
The gun lobby dusted off the playbook it’s used since the 1980s: yield no ground in negotiations, focus on a few targeted senators, galvanize 4 million NRA members with direct mail, and hold up the NRA scorecard as a thinly veiled threat ahead of the 2014 midterms.The winner: the NRA’s playbook.When the Senate voted down a bipartisan bill to expand background checks Wednesday, it was a stark reminder that big money groups are still no match for the NRA’s ability to get what it wants by playing retail politics — or delivering payback.
i guess we are to now look at our desires for what we want congress to do should be considered as BS i mean you know the old saying "money talks BS walks". what elseare we to think 90% means gnat crap to NRA and it's backers possibly your neighbor next door or your for sale congress person.
