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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsjust watched the NRA's david keene interview on cnn with candy crowley.....
this guy talks like the nra is a branch of the united states government....like Obama has to answer to them.
they are nothing but a lobbying organization for the gun industry.
he claims they don't work for the gun industry....says their 'constituents are gun owners and and 2nd amendment'
he's slick as owl shit as he calls ms crowley 'sandy'.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/13/politics/gun-laws-battle/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
david keene....
After graduating from the University of Wisconsin Law School, Keene worked as a political assistant to Vice President Spiro Agnew during the Nixon administration, and then in Congress as executive assistant to Senator James L. Buckley.
Keene went on to become the southern regional coordinator for Ronald Reagan's 1976 bid for the Republican presidential nomination and national political director for George H.W. Bush's 1980 presidential campaign. He advised Senator Robert Dole's 1988 and 1996 presidential campaigns, and in 2007 endorsed Mitt Romney for president.[2] Today, he is of counsel at the Carmen Group, a lobbying firm based in Washington, D.C. Keene has been called "one of the countrys most astute political observers,"[3] and "was counted as one of the few men with both the ear of Republican presidents and an ability to influence the grassroots."[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Keene
Skittles
(152,964 posts)fuck them all
madinmaryland
(64,920 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Keene and lape'ars are at the bottom of the pile
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Started young didn't he? And learned from several Masters. Gah.
<sigh> Nixonians and Reaganites resurfacing a decade(s) later...like bad pennies that keep coming back. Can't we boot these people out for good when they eff up?
spanone
(135,633 posts)In May 2005, Keene spoke at an ACU dinner celebrating and defending then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who was embroiled in a number of ethics scandals (DeLay has since been
convicted of money laundering). NRA Board Member Cleta Mitchell served as M.C. for the event. Attendees at the event included DeLay himself, then-House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R
MO), then-RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, NRA Board Members Grover Norquist and Governor Jim Gilmore (R VA), and approximately 30 members of Congress. The NRA purchased a
table at the dinner for $2,000. In an interview with NPR a day after the event, Keene announced that conservatives will protect their own and called ethics investigations against DeLay
an attack on the conservative agenda and each and every one of the 800 attendees of the dinner.
http://www.meetthenra.org/nra-member/David%20A.%20Keene
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)too bad we couldn't have run them out of Washington for good...or stuck them in jail.
It'd have to be for life tho, since they have no shame.
starroute
(12,977 posts)He started out as national chairman of Young Americans for Freedom in the 1960s, and that led him -- like many other YAFers -- to become involved with some of the creepier anti-communist groups of that period. Those included the American-Chilean Council -- which was created as a covert front group to defend the Pinochet dictatorship -- and the Council for Inter-American Security, which had close ties with Latin American neo-fascists and U.S. racists.
Larry Pratt, the creep who now heads Gun Owners of America, was a co-founder of the Council for Inter-American Security and served as its secretary. So Keene's ties with this sort of crap go way back.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)incident. These people are lunatics and are carrying guns on our streets every day, while encouraging more to do the same. They are bringing up their children in the gun culture. The next generation will be worse.
tularetom
(23,664 posts)You know she ain't going to ask the tough questions.
Except if she's interviewing a Democrat.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)rifle ... his "gun" was much, much tinier in truth ...
doc03
(35,148 posts)weapon like the Star Trek Phaser it would be legal to carry one according the NRAs interpetastion of the the 2nd Amendment. Someone gets pissed off you could just vaporize an entire school.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)spanone
(135,633 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)that they support when they post the NRA and GOA talking points?
as long as they get to cling to their guns the cowards do not care
patrice
(47,992 posts)troubled countries like Libya CAN start something that American troops will have to clean up. That's why they have legislation, a Grover Norquist style pledge of allegiance to the NRA, in the Senate to prevent the consideration of UN treaties controlling arms sales to 3rd world countries.
patrice
(47,992 posts)malaise
(267,810 posts)ReTHUG
ThoughtCriminal
(14,010 posts)Agnew (Resigned in disgrace)
Reagan (1976 lost to Ford)
Bush (1980 lost to Reagan)
Dole (1988 lost to Bush, 1996 lost to Clinton)
Romney (2008 lost to McCain)
Bet on whoever is running against this guy's candidate - at least in the year he's backing them.
LAGC
(5,330 posts)Not exactly a winning track record.
Wonder why the NRA picked him? You'd think they'd at least look for someone who had some victories under their belt.
spanone
(135,633 posts)he speaks in certitudes...like everything he says is true...
it's show business, baby!!!!