Robin Kelly (left), Anthony Beale (center), and Debbie Halvorson (right) on WTTW's Chicago Tonight show recently.
Debbie Halvorson is the pro-gun candidate in the race for 2nd Illinois Congressional district and has been endorsed for Congress by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA). That is because she has an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA) and also has an "A" rating from the afore-mentioned ISRA.
Robin Kelly, the "F" rated NRA candidate, would never accept an endorsement from the NRA (or the ISRA). Nor would they even dream of endorsing a candidate like Robin Kelly. After all, Robin Kelly opposes everything that the NRA (and the ISRA) stand for.
During a wide-ranging press conference on Monday evening after the debate on WTTW's Chicago Tonight show, Debbie Halvorson said she would "not" accept the endorsement of any gun group.
"I can't imagine they would," she told the assembled room of reporters.
Imagination or not, the ISRA has indeed endorsed the "A" rated, NRA-backed candidate for Congress, Debbie Halvorson.
How can she now be believed?
About anything.
In 2010, Debbie Halvorson actively sought the endorsement of the National Rifle Association during her campaign for Congress, according to a reliable source.
Who is that reliable source?
The source, of course, is Debbie Halvorson herself. In a press conference held this past Monday evening after her appearance with Robin Kelly and Anthony Beale on the Chicago Tonight show on WTTW, Debbie Halvorson said "The only way to get an endorsement is given is by filling out a questionnaire. That is how it works."
All along, Debbie Halvosron has said that she has not sought an endorsement from the NRA.
But she said herself that the NRA, or any group for that matter, does not endorse without being asked and without filling out a questionnaire. Here is what she said about that. "The way any endorsements work in the entire political process is that you, if you want to seek an endorsement, is that they give you a questionnaire to fill out, they submit it to their group and then they decide if they endorse you."
See, very simple. Right?
Then she told the untruth. "I have purposely not filled out questionnaires for groups that I don't seek an endorsement from."
Even the conservative Illinois Review knew that Debbie Halvorson filled out a questionnaire, saying that as "an incumbent congresswoman and that she fills out her questionnaires the way the NRA wants them filled out."
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