Meet The Shady Secret Money Group Helping The NRA Buy Up Judges And Attorneys General

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/02/14/1591381/meet-the-shady-secret-money-group-helping-the-nra-buy-up-judges-and-attorneys-general/

As the nation engages in a long-overdue debate about gun violence, ThinkProgress has documented examples of how the NRA’s influence over Congress and public opinion may be exaggerated. The NRA may, however, exercise more influence in state elections, where candidates are less well known and political ads can have more impact. The NRA has funneledmillions of dollars to a front group that spends its money electing judges and state attorneys general who are tough on crime—unless those crimes involve gun control laws.

The Law Enforcement Alliance of America (LEAA) was founded with NRA funding in 1991. The LEAA opposes common-sense measures such as backgroundchecks and keeping guns away from people on the federal government’s “Terrorist Watchlist.”

The LEAA adamantly refuses to disclose its donors, but the NRA’s tax documents reveal that it gave the group at least $2 million between 2004 and 2010. Previousreports say the NRA gave the group $500,000 annually from 1995 to 2004, which would total more than $6 million.

to have your donations i mean bribes shielded from public as to who is doing the deed you automatically place yourself on the witness stand, in the public's mind, something to hide, criminal actions.

there is a positive though, we are now finding out about these before suspected but not mentioned so much, we are also beginning to identify those dollars and what hemisphere they come from.  in short who's bidding on our country.

The LEAA, in turn, has spent big on state supreme court races, shelling out millions of dollars for attack ads that distorted the rulings of judges in criminal cases. One judge was accused of “voting for” a rapist and a “baby killer.” An African American judge in Michigan wasdescribed as “soft on crime for rappers, lawyers, and child pornographers.” The LEAA’s attack ads helped give Republicans a majority on high courts in Pennsylvania and Michigan.

Three judges on the Mississippi Supreme Court were elected with LEAA support, and the court recently ruled that a Wal-Mart store was not liable for a murder committed with bullets the store had knowingly and illegally sold to a “straw purchaser” who gave them to an underage friend. A few months after the ruling, the LEAA spent nearly half a million dollars to elect a judge to the Mississippi high court.

The attorneys general elected with help from LEAA have struck down limits on guns. Former Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, a Republican, moved to limit the reach of the “Uniform Machine Gun Act.” In 2011, Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette of Michigangranted gun owners in his state the right to use silencers if licensed by the ATF. Schuette’s office quoted an NRA spokesperson describing silencers as “useful safety devices.”

The NRA has also donated millions of dollars directly to state candidates. In 2009, 23 attorneys general publicly opposed renewal of the federal ban on assault weapons. Of the 21 elected attorneys general who signed the letter, 14 had received campaign cash from the NRA.

if this does not bother you you need to check your voter id to find out why.  for those of us who are concerned we need to check out our friends and neighbors to make sure they understand and keep up with latest republican plan to block theuir vote 2014 and 16, this will give us a chance to prepare and be ready.