Ohio Jr Senator Rob Portman and NRA Blood Money- how much did yours take?

[irisblue]

https://www.businessinsider.com/nra-political-contributions-congressional-candidates-house-senate-2018-2
**Please note this is right after Parkland Murders. The total may have changed**


Three million, sixty one thousand, nine hundred forty one dollars
$3, 061,941 US dollars.



How much do your Senators and Representatives,Federal and local take?

[volstork]

1. Well, "mine" coordinated it all:

https://www.timesfreepress.com/news/opinion/times/story/2018/jul/30/sohn-nras-russilink-hties-blackburn/475893/

The Tennessean has reported that in addition to representing Blackburn on campaign finance questions, Preston has claimed Alexander Torshin as a Russian client and longtime friend. Torshin is the prominent Russian politician with close ties to President Vladimir Putin who is now under scrutiny for illegally channeling Russian funds through the National Rifle Association in an effort to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. According to the Tennessean, Preston first introduced Torshin to then-president of the NRA David Keene in 2011, and the pair attended the NRA's annual convention in Nashville in 2015.

Blackburn, a U.S. House of Representatives member since 2002 and now a Tennessee Senate candidate seeking Bob Corker's open seat, is a longtime NRA supporter and recipient of at least $34,700 in NRA donations, according to opensecrets.com, which tracks campaign donations. According to the Washington Post, Blackburn received the most NRA money since 2002 of any Tennessee Congress member. As in most campaign finance snapshots, that total listed for her includes only donations, not any possible expenditures by the NRA to oppose her challengers.

But by widening the lens, the NRA money picture gets a bit darker. The NRA spent $30 million on Trump's campaign in 2016 and another $40 million in various efforts to lobby and help elect Republicans, according to a recent New Republic report.

[G_j]

2. Documents Show NRA and Republican Candidates Coordinated Ads in Key Senate Races

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/nra-republicans-campaign-ads-senate-josh-hawley/

“You do this if you think no one is going to investigate,” says a former federal regulator.
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The National Rifle Association appears to have illegally coordinated its political advertising with Republican candidates in at least three recent high-profile US Senate races, according to Federal Communications Commission records. In Senate races in Missouri and Montana in 2018 and North Carolina in 2016, the gun group’s advertising blitzes on behalf of GOP candidates Josh Hawley, Matt Rosendale, and Richard Burr were authorized by the very same media consultant that the candidates themselves used—an apparent violation of laws designed to prevent independent groups from synchronizing their efforts with political campaigns.

In December, the Trace and Mother Jones reported on a similar pattern of coordination between the NRA and Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. In that case, Trump and the NRA hired affiliates of the same company—National Media Research, Planning and Placement—to direct their ad spending. Employees of that firm, operating under different corporate identities, placed ads for both Trump and the NRA on television stations across the country, with the apparent goal of reinforcing each other’s message.

..more..

[KPN]

3. Great thread. I'll have to check, but being I'm in Oregon, probably zip.

We need to shame these people however, en masse.

And scare them. I can't help but think a case can be made for holding each and every one of these fuckers accountable for aiding and abetting (and as Stephen King pointed out about Moscow Mitch serving as "accomplice(s) to" mass murders in this once great country by way of gross negligence in performing their responsibilities. There is a clear record in support of this case: a treasure chest of public statements decrying gun control and casting blame elsewhere, campaign contributions from the NRA and firearms industry including money funneled from Russia to destabilize our nation, via the NRA, accepting foreign contributions from foreign firearm manufacturers. ... I dearly hope some of our elected Dem officials and candidates start promising to make this case when we have control of the WH and Senate.