{"id":38219,"date":"2020-02-20T16:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38219"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:25:33","slug":"this-could-get-interesting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38219","title":{"rendered":"This Could Get Interesting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot Air<\/a> is reporting today that Everytown for Gun Safety, a Mike Bloomberg-backed gun-grabbing group, is setting its sights on Texas.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Everytown for Gun Safety, a Michael Bloomberg-backed group that pushes for expanded background checks, red flag laws and other measures, is plotting what its political director calls an \u201cunprecedented financial and grassroots effort\u201d to flip the Texas House, defend vulnerable freshmen Democrats in Congress and help Democrats take congressional seats in the suburbs. A memo detailing the plan, the group\u2019s biggest state investment to date, was shared exclusively with Hearst Newspapers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that Texas, as it becomes younger and increasingly diverse, can be the next emerging battleground state with gun safety as the tipping point,\u201d Chris Carr, the group\u2019s political director wrote in the memo. \u201cWe believe there are opportunities to elect gun sense candidates up and down the ballot, from the statehouse to the U.S. Congress \u2014 and potentially even statewide.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

I will admit that I don’t know a lot about Texas politics, but it seems to me that the basic culture of Texas might make this planned gun grab a little more difficult.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

While Shannon Watts (founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a group of activists affiliated with Everytown) uses hyperbole<\/a> in comparing Texas to Virginia, she should know that Texas is not like most other states. There are plenty of Democrats in elected office who are strong supporters of the Second Amendment and are gun owners themselves. This is not as partisan issue as it is in other states.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI would say anyone running for office in Texas should look to Virginia,\u201d Watts said. \u201cSix months after a shooting in Virginia Beach, all of the elected officials who refused gun sense were voted out of office.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everytown is supporting freshmen Democrats like my own congresswoman \u2013 Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, who is vulnerable. The district was a strongly red district \u2013 the reddest in Houston \u2013 and fell into Democrat hands for the first time<\/a> in 2018 when she was elected. She is facing a tough battle to retain her seat. I\u2019m counting on my district moving back into the red column in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Everytown is also planning to go on the offensive against Republican U.S. Reps. Dan Crenshaw, Michael McCaul, Chip Roy and John Carter, and it\u2019s planning to spend big in districts left open by retiring Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Will Hurd.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As is said in Texas, come and take it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s hope Texas voters are awake enough not to repeat what happened in Virginia. One thing to keep in mind when looking at Virginia is that a lot of the Democrat candidates ran unopposed. Hopefully that won’t happen in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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