I love Gabby Giffords. I cheered as she said the pledge at the DNC in 2012.
I think she and her husband have been great fighters on gun control.
However, something is really bothering me here in PA.
Her group “Americans for Responsible Solutions” endorsed far right wingnut PA Senator Pat Toomey. Pat has an “A” rating from the NRA. After Sandy Hook he made a big deal about supporting back ground checks. This is what they wrote when they endorsed, "In the wake of the tragedy at Sandy Hook, Republican Sens. Pat Toomey and Mark Kirk broke from the gun lobby and supported a bill to help prevent felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining firearms at gun shows and online,"
This is now seen as a real profile in courage.
Republicans are graded on a curve. The Kirk thing bothers me too, but not as much because Duckworth is probably going to win in IL.
I do not understand this logic at all. Katie McGinty has a real shot to get us this Senate Seat. She has a 100 percent position on gun control according to Gabby’s group. What the heck are they doing? Why are they selling us out here in Pennsylvania?
Clinton is killing it in the Philly Suburbs and will win the state by a healthy margin. However, Toomey is running ahead of the ticket and not losing as bad in the suburbs. His ads play up this Giffords’s endorsement in the Philadelphia media market.
Gabby has said good things about McGinty, but it is getting drowned out by this endorsement.
Gabby, I beseech you. Please rescind this endorsement. Say Katie McGinty has promised more on guns (She has.) Pat Toomey still refuses to support assault weapons ban. It would get great play here.
Folks we really need to win this one. Please consider giving:
Act Blue - Kaite McGinty