Prominent Republican Donor Issues Ultimatum on Assault Weapons

[coeur_de_lion]

It's a start. I hope many more will do the same.

[link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/us/prominent-republican-donor-issues-ultimatum-on-assault-weapons.html|

A prominent Republican political donor demanded on Saturday that the party pass legislation to restrict access to guns, and vowed not to contribute to any candidates or electioneering groups that did not support a ban on the sale of military-style firearms to civilians.

Al Hoffman Jr., a Florida-based real estate developer who was a leading fund-raiser for George W. Bush’s campaigns, said he would seek to marshal support among other Republican political donors for a renewed assault weapons ban.

“For how many years now have we been doing this — having these experiences of terrorism, mass killings — and how many years has it been that nothing’s been done?” Mr. Hoffman said in an interview. “It’s the end of the road for me.”

Mr. Hoffman announced his ultimatum in an email to half a dozen Republican leaders, including Jeb Bush and Gov. Rick Scott of Florida. He wrote in the email that he would not give money to Mr. Scott, who is considering a campaign for the Senate in 2018, or other Florida Republicans he has backed in the past, including Representative Brian Mast, if they did not support new gun legislation.

[Farmer-Rick]

1. Well, some RepubliCONS are Not traitors too.

[Hortensis]

2. Our viewpoint: Great! Repubs: No honor among thieves.

Just joking, a bit. There is honor in this position even if this schmuck is making out like the bandit he is from the tax heist he stacked congress to create.

Let's hope, though, that no more recognize that this is becoming a seriously bad issue for Republicans and put on similar shows of compunction. Can't carry out their plans for turning this into the world's most advanced banana republic if they're not in power. And that last is what we need.

[coeur_de_lion]

3. I wish this Al Hoffman would take it a step further

and put his money behind gun control instead.

Or better yet, start backing Democratic candidates.

[Hortensis]

4. :) If he weren't a big donor in this past decade, I'd

wonder if that was possible.

But the Republican Party turned strong conservative in the 1980s and 1990s, purged the principled moderates who wouldn't go along, and is now in economic and social extremist territory serving people like this one.

No good guys are driving what it's become, even if the promise of funeral corteges for dozens of dead kids every year finally made this one blink.

[coeur_de_lion]

5. :(

You're right. But I still want to hope.

[Hortensis]

6. I always do.