Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumLooks like Hillary & Democrats got Bernie to flip flop
Bernie Sanders agreed Thursday to cosponsor a bill repealing a 2005 law that shields gun businesses from civil liability, but the presidential candidate continues to offer dubious explanations for his past support for the measure.
Sanderss about-face on the issue wont help the bill which is already sponsored by Connecticut Democratic Senators Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal overcome Republican opposition in this Congress. What it might do, he hopes, is diffuse months of rival Hillary Clintons attacks on his gun record. The former Secretary of State has used Sanderss past support for giving gun businesses immunity to raise doubts about his liberal bona fides among Democratic primary voters who are largely aligned in support of stronger gun laws: A New York Times-CBS poll this month found that 82 percent of Democrats support stronger gun restrictions, up from 70 percent of Democrats who said they backed stricter laws in December 2013.
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, described Sanderss move as proof of what can happen when the public holds politicians accountable which is happening on the gun violence prevention issue like never before.
http://www.thetrace.org/2016/01/bernie-sanders-voting-record-guns/
He had to rush back to campaign from the well of the Senate.
still_one
(92,155 posts)Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)Little Star
(17,055 posts)BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)still_one
(92,155 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)"consistent"? Except when it's expedient.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)with his thumb up in the air, testing the wind on his way back home to Camp Weathervane!!!!
I'm sure this will get alot of play in GD: Primaries!!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)to reverse the past law, probably will die before it gets through committees. This bill does not bring back lives killed by gun violence.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)I don't believe he really means the change, but he is clever enough to use this flip flop to paper over his vote for Corporate Welfare.
I detest this use of his office to create campaign propaganda. Republicans do this all the time, and when they do I call it corruption.
Good try, Senators Sanders, but we got you.
Cha
(297,154 posts)gun issue, berni.. finally. Hillary made you do it.. see how powerful she is.
Mahalo Historic NY
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)see the light.
Feel the BURN Burnie!
Cha
(297,154 posts)#I'mWithHer!
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Some ego he's got, can't say the m-word.
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)I am shocked.
FloridaBlues
(4,008 posts)Can you just add your name to co sponsor if it has co sponsors already?
riversedge
(70,196 posts)the bill--be active --publicly advocate for bill--get other Senators on board--etc.