Who Will The NRA Endorse in MS-01?
The NRA sent out a press release yesterday announcing that legislation which would give Washington D.C. a voting member in the House has been pulled after some Democrats decried another portion of the bill which would give D.C. residents the right to own firearms.
In the press release, Rep. Travis Childers received a lot of good press from the NRA as the powerful gun lobby encouraged members to “give Rep. Childers the support he needs…to reform D.C’s gun control laws.”
An endorsement from the NRA in a place like MS-01 is as coveted as any a politician can receive. In 2008, Childers got the nod from the NRA as proudly displayed on his campaign website. And as Alan Nunnelee mentions on his campaign website, he has been endorsed by the NRA in all of his previous runs for office. There is no doubt Childers and Nunnelee (should he win the GOP primary) will fight hard and angle for this endorsement. From the way I see things, it will be hard for the NRA not to endorse Childers again this time around.
The NRA likes to endorse pro-gun rights Democrats in a sign of bi-partisanship, especially if they think they are going to win. How this race is shaking up in mid-October may have more to do with the endorsement between two pro-gun rights candidates than anything else.
My money would be on Travis Childres. The NRA backed Gene Taylor in Dist. 4. I called them in DC asked why. They only care about the 2sd Amend. I ask “you don’t care about the rest of America” I swear this it this guy from the NRA answer no we only care about the 2sd Amend. At that time I told them what to do with my membership in the NRA. If they don’t care what else goes on in America they don’t get any more of my money.
I can certainly appreciate their reasons for focusing on the 2nd Amendment issue, but surely they also understand that a vote for Childers is a vote for Pelosi to remain speaker, which certainly doesn’t bode well for gun rights in America.