{"id":5990,"date":"2012-04-22T21:01:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2012-04-22T21:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T01:01:23","slug":"pledge-drive-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5990","title":{"rendered":"Pledge drive FAIL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5963\">Brady&#8217;s pledge drive<\/a>. \u00a0The results are in and are even better than expected (for our side.) \u00a0According to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.care2.com\/causes\/update-confirmed-congress-is-owned-by-the-nra.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradycampaign.org\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Goddard<\/a> &#8230; told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC<\/a> that every Congressperson they spoke to told them they supported the pledge \u2014 but none, not one, no Democrat, no Republican, would actually sign it &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not even <a href=\"http:\/\/carolynmccarthy.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Carolyn McCarthy<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>The antis need to take this failure personally because \u00a0this shows a strong personal dislike of the issue by members of Congress. \u00a0There are lots of reps. in safe districts who could get away with signing their pledge and not have to \u00a0worry about any ramifications at election time. \u00a0That they could not get even one of them to do so really shows how toxic the antigunners have become.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D5990&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; 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