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IA8IT

(5,926 posts)
Sun May 29, 2022, 02:10 PM May 2022

Sen. Joni NRA Ernst $$$ 3,124,773 $$$ Newsweek story link

Mitt Romney (Utah) $13,647,676
Richard Burr (North Carolina) $6,987,380
Roy Blunt (Missouri) $4,555,722
Thom Tillis (North Carolina) $4,421,333
Marco Rubio (Florida) $3,303,355
Joni Ernst (Iowa) $3,124,773
Rob Portman (Ohio) $3,063,327
Todd C. Young (Indiana) $2,897,582
Bill Cassidy (Louisiana) $2,867,074
Tom Cotton (Arkansas) $1,968,714

more at link

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-senators-nra-funding-texas-school-shooting-uvalde-1710332

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Sen. Joni NRA Ernst $$$ 3,124,773 $$$ Newsweek story link (Original Post) IA8IT May 2022 OP
just to be fair... essaynnc May 2022 #1
Just to be fair: A fake D. Irish_Dem May 2022 #3
But..... Both sides are the same! essaynnc May 2022 #5
Fair is an archaic word not used in politics now. IA8IT May 2022 #6
If you give the GOP enough cash, they will let you slaughter children with assault rifles. Irish_Dem May 2022 #2
And in this little exercise, we see... essaynnc May 2022 #4
"B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet". Bachman-Turner Overdrive IA8IT May 2022 #7
Iowa Starting Line among first to reporting the NRA ownership rurallib May 2022 #8
+1 progressoid May 2022 #9
Put this in the face of "It's a mental health problem" apologists. Great post rurallib IA8IT May 2022 #11
She has no shame. progressoid May 2022 #10

essaynnc

(873 posts)
5. But..... Both sides are the same!
Sun May 29, 2022, 02:22 PM
May 2022

Please don't tell me I have to indicate that this is sarcasm

Irish_Dem

(59,689 posts)
2. If you give the GOP enough cash, they will let you slaughter children with assault rifles.
Sun May 29, 2022, 02:18 PM
May 2022

essaynnc

(873 posts)
4. And in this little exercise, we see...
Sun May 29, 2022, 02:21 PM
May 2022

Just how wrong Citizens United is... Millions of dollars from a special interest group, and they support them a 100%. Does anyone need any other verification that citizens united was an incorrect ruling??

IA8IT

(5,926 posts)
7. "B-b-baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet". Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Sun May 29, 2022, 03:35 PM
May 2022

hell is on the way

rurallib

(63,291 posts)
8. Iowa Starting Line among first to reporting the NRA ownership
Sun May 29, 2022, 03:50 PM
May 2022

of Ernst: (Feb. 15, 2018)
https://iowastartingline.com/2018/02/15/joni-ernst-got-3-1-million-in-nra-money-made-gun-laws-more-dangerous/ https://iowastartingline.com/2018/02/15/joni-ernst-got-3-1-million-in-nra-money-made-gun-laws-more-dangerous/

Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is a national darling of the NRA’s effort to eliminate any and all meaningful gun safety laws that might keep children like those at Parkland, Florida from getting blown to pieces on a regular school day. Ernst received over $3.1 million in financial support from the NRA, the seventh-most of any senator, according to an analysis of campaign spending last October. Money from the gun rights organization poured into Iowa to help her get past the finish line in her race for Senate against Bruce Braley in 2014.

The NRA got what they paid for with Ernst, who then voted last February to stop a new rule that would have kept the mentally ill from obtaining guns through the background check system. Ernst voted in favor of House Joint Resolution 40, which sought to overturn a recent decision for the National Instant Criminal History Background Check System that would have kept people who considerable mental health issues from obtaining weapons. Both the House and Senate passed the resolution, and President Donald Trump signed it in February 2017.

The new rule would have added about 75,000 people to the background check list that have been otherwise deemed unfit to handle their own finances due to mental illness. Ernst preferred to guns into the hands of people who had such serious mental health issues that they couldn’t even legally handle their own personal finances.

Shortly after the massacre in Las Vegas, Ernst also expressed her concern over the legality of the kind of bump stocks that were used in the mass shooting. Nothing has been accomplished on that front.




IA8IT

(5,926 posts)
11. Put this in the face of "It's a mental health problem" apologists. Great post rurallib
Mon May 30, 2022, 07:27 AM
May 2022

progressoid

(50,787 posts)
10. She has no shame.
Mon May 30, 2022, 12:23 AM
May 2022

I doubt she cares about this dirty money.

Hopefully, voters will feel differently.

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