IGO - Part 5

Shocking NRA Endorsements in Iowa

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 at 2:31 PM

Shocking NRA Endorsements in Iowa

Iowa Gun Owners

Iowa--(Ammoland.com)- Many of you have contacted us regarding the NRA’s recent endorsement of Governor Chet Culver in his bid for re-election.

For more details on this and other soon to be announced shocking endorsements from the NRA please keep reading.

In our alert yesterday we informed you about the endorsement of anti-gun Iowa Governor Chet Culver by the NRA.

We choose our words carefully since it’s Governor Culver who signed into law the bill that we described yesterday-the one that takes away guns from those who are merely accused of misdemeanor crimes.

Governor Culver also refuses to answer the 2010 Iowa Gun Owners Gun Rights Candidate Survey…

…the survey that Governor Branstad completed with 100% pro-gun responses.

Many of you have been asking us how to contact the NRA-ILA to complain about this endorsement.

The number to call is 800-392-8683. Tell them that we don’t need their political favors taking a toll on our gun rights. Urge them to reconsider this endorsement.

But there is more.
Representatives from Iowa Gun Owners have been hearing rumors in the recent past that the NRA is about to endorse liberal, gun grabbing Senator Staci Appel over gun rights champion Rep. Kent Sorenson!!!

Iowa Gun Owners members will recognize Kent Sorenson as our lead bill sponsor in the House for the last two years.

Besides being the lead sponsor of House File 596 (REAL Right-to-Carry) for the last two years, Representative Sorenson:

Co-sponsored HF86 – A Castle Doctrine bill that provides important legal protections to Iowa gun owners.
Co-sponsored HF2057 – A bill that disallows the government from demanding to know the make and model of your weapon prior to receiving a permit to carry it.
Co-sponsored HF87 – A bill that disallows the government from making lawful Iowans give their fingerprints, like a common criminal, as part of receiving a concealed carry permit.
Sponsored HF2267 – A bill that repeals Iowa’s unconstitutional permit to purchase handguns. If passed, law abiding Iowans will be able to purchase self-defense weapons from other law abiding Iowans without government interference.

Anti-gun Senator Staci Appel supported none of these in her capacity as a State Senator!

But we’ve moved beyond rumors. Today two news outlets in Iowa have broken this story, confirming what we’ve been hearing. (See links below.)

http://theiowarepublican.com/home/2010/09/28/nra-not-relevant-anymore/
http://www.thebeanwalker.com/

This is an outrage!
While Iowa Gun Owners prepares to launch our biggest grassroots initiative ever, to inform thousands of voters about the anti-gun positions taken by their State Representative and State Senators (or challengers) the NRA walks in behind us and is set to advocate for one of the most liberal gun-grabbers in the State of Iowa.

Iowa Gun Owners urges you to contact the NRA-ILA (the division that makes the endorsement decisions) and let them know what you think of this decision.

Whether or not you are an NRA member we encourage you to call. As a grassroots gun owner/activist they should hear from you.

The number to call is 800-392-8683.

To be perfectly clear, Iowa Gun Owners is not endorsing or advocating for or against candidates. That is the job of the newly formed Iowa Gun Owners Political Action Committee (PAC).

But we want you to be aware of the political issues surrounding your 2nd Amendment freedoms that we seek to defend and enhance.

Please make your calls today.

You can contact us in the following ways:

Email: info@iowagunowners.org
Phone: 515/309-7858
Mail: P.O. Box 3585, Des Moines, IA 50323
Website: www.IowaGunOwners.org

About:
Iowa Gun Owners (IGO) was formed in January of 2009 to combat the oppressive gun laws in the State of Iowa. IGO does not believe that you, as a law abiding citizen, should have to beg permission from the government to be able to defend yourself and your family. That’s why we are working so hard to get a Vermont/Alaska style carry law passed in Iowa. In these states, unless you are a convicted felon or otherwise barred from possessing weapons, you don’t need a permit to carry a gun for self-defense! Join us now! Visit: www.iowagunowners.org

Tags: Anti Gun Politicians, Endorsements, Gun Politics, Gun Voters, IGO, Iowa, Iowa Gun Owners, NRA-ILA

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Disclose Act Update & NRA Endorses Gov. Culver???

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010 at 11:56 AM

Disclose Act Update & NRA Endorses Gov. Culver???

Iowa Gun Owners

Iowa--(Ammoland.com)- Iowa readers, we recently called upon you to take action and call Senators Grassley and Harkin and urge them to vote no on the so-called “Disclose Act.”

This is the bill that would effectively silence organizations like Iowa Gun Owners from informing you about the positions that your elected officials have taken on the 2nd Amendment.

In particular, it would limit us during election time.

This is a dream bill if you are an anti-gun politician facing a tough re-election bid this fall. The last thing they want is for gun owners to be aware of their votes on gun bills!

We are pleased to report that thanks to your calls and emails, and those of other gun activists across the country, you helped kill this legislation that damages the 1st and 2nd Amendments at the same time.

Senator Grassley voted against this bill.
Senator Harkin, on the other hand, voted to support it.

It is important to note that there is no such thing as a dead bill as long as Congress is in session. So you may have to take action again. But for the time being, and for the 2nd time now, you have stopped this bill dead in it’s tracks.

NRA Not Helping
In a disappointing move that Iowa Gun Owners members are becoming all too used to, the NRA acted against the best interests of gun owners and returned a political favor to Governor Chet Culver today when they endorsed his re-election campaign.

IGO members will remember that it was the NRA that brought forth the watered down carry bill that passed through the General Assembly last session and ultimately was signed by the Governor.

IGO was concerned that anti-gun members of the legislature and Governor Culver would be able to use this bill to their advantage.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what took place.

While the NRA has endorsed Governor Culver, here are the real facts:

Governor Culver refuses to complete the Iowa Gun Owners 2010 Gun Rights Candidate Survey.
Governor Culver signed into law SF2357, which allows Iowans, not convicted of any crime and potentially not even being allowed to be present to make a defense at an evidentiary hearing, to have their lawfully owned firearms seized from them based on a mere accusation alone.
Governor Brandstad has completed the Gun Rights Candidate Survey with 100% pro-gun responses.
Lt. Governor nominee Senator Kim Reynolds co-sponsored and voted for REAL Right-to-Carry and other pro-gun bills for Iowa Gun Owners for the past two legislative sessions.

This NRA endorsement follows on the heels of a substantial PAC donation made from the NRA-PVF to Governor Culver’s campaign in the amount of $2,500 soon after he signed the watered down bill into law.

Unfortunately, for those Iowa Gun Owners’ members who are also NRA members, that’s your money helping to re-elect this anti-gun Governor who suddenly became pro-gun when it suited him politically.

It would appear as though the NRA has repaid their debt to Governor Culver for signing their watered down bill.

That’s the bad news.

The good news is that Iowa Gun Owners has been meeting with pro-gun incumbents and first time candidates all over the state of Iowa and the 2nd Amendment has taken on a major component in their campaigns.

We have almost every pro-gun candidate in the state on the record now in support of REAL Right-to-Carry and our other pro-gun bills through our 2010 Gun Rights Candidate Survey program.

It looks very likely that pro-gun candidates will re-take the House of Representatives, at least, this Fall.

Thanks for your support as we get candidates on the record for gun rights.

As we roll into the final weeks of the election season, Iowa Gun Owners will be sending out waves of mail all across the state of Iowa. We will be informing you and thousands of other pro-gun activists like you, where your candidates stand on the issue of the 2nd Amendment.

We have the anti-gunners on the record after two years of recorded, roll call gun votes. (This is why procedural votes matter in the legislature.) Now they are on the run trying desperately to hide their anti-gun positions.

With your support we will make sure that their recorded votes and candidate surveys get out to the voters in their districts!

To help us with this vital program, and to help ensure a pro-gun majority next legislative session, won’t you please consider a special donation to help us with our pro-gun mail program?

It will be a costly program. But if we don’t get the word out to gun activists like yourself, then our chances of advancing solid gun bills next legislative session will be diminished.

You can contact us in the following ways: