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rhineoshott
07-22-2010, 11:14
I got this email from RMGO, just wanted to pass it on. I remember a thread a couple months ago where a few folks thought Norton was a conservative.
I was at the Western Conservative Summit a couple weeks ago where she tried to pretend she was a conservative...I couldn't stand it.

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What do Jane Norton & Sarah Brady have in common?


Simple: they both want Gun Owners in jail!


Jane Norton claims to be pro-gun.

And though we've been skeptical of Jane Norton -- especially considering she was recruited by one of the leading anti-gun Senators in the U.S. Senate -- we decided to give her the benefit of the doubt.

She even joined her opponent, Ken Buck, in filling out the National Association for Gun Rights 2010 Federal Candidate Survey 100% pro-gun.

But right now, Jane Norton is acting more like radical gun-banner Sarah Brady.

In her radio and TV advertisements, Jane Norton is vocally advocating for the legal persecution of law-abiding gun owners – against an active member of Colorado's largest gun rights group, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners (RMGO).

To prop up her faltering campaign, Jane Norton’s operatives have been pushing the liberal media to talk about the malicious prosecution of a gun owner in a positive light.

Norton is trying to curry favor with the media elite and the anti-gun Establishment types, since it plays on their anti-gun sentiments.

Really, she's just using the anti-gun hysteria of those who hate freedom to attack her opponent.

It's desperate, for certain.

It's also flat-out wrong.

Norton is trying to demonize gun store owner Greg Golyansky -- a long-time member of RMGO. Unlike many politicians, he’s got a history of standing for freedom.

Golyansky and his family moved from behind the Iron Curtain to America because of freedom, something they didn’t have in their homeland. He went through legal channels, moved to Colorado and started a business. I know Greg personally, and I can tell you that he’s someone who’s very excited about freedom and our country’s founding principles.

That’s who Jane Norton is vilifying -- a Colorado gun owner -- in an attempt to tar her opponent.

As Paul Harvey used to say, here’s the rest of the story.

A decade ago the BATFE (federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) used a sting operation against Greg Golyansky, attempting to jail him for mere paperwork violations of their byzantine regulations.

To his credit, then Assistant U.S. Attorney Ken Buck – now Jane Norton’s U.S. Senate primary opponent – refused to prosecute Golyansky. Simply put, the evidence wasn’t there.

But Ken Buck's boss -- former Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Tom Strickland -- tried to force Buck into prosecuting Golyansky, despite the lack of evidence.

Why did Tom Strickland try to force Buck to prosecute this so-called gun crime?

Simply put, Tom Strickland is a raving anti-gun extremist. He wanted to empower the BATFE to go on witch hunts against gun owners across our country via a program called Project Exile (we call it Project Gestapo, since it uses outrageous anti-gun rhetoric and promotes "turning in your neighbors for illegal guns.")

I should know about this case: Greg called me when it happened.

I told Greg Golyansky that this is what happens when there's a combination of rabid, anti-gun politicians in charge of "administering the law" and a tide of gun control is sweeping our state, as it was in the wake of the Columbine tragedy.

Fast forward to the 2010 elections.

Jane Norton, behind in the polls, is now using this non-issue against Ken Buck.

Frankly, this makes me furious.

I know politicians are not to be trusted, but when they answer a written survey and sign their signature attesting to it, I expect them to live up to their word.

But it only took a few weeks for Jane Norton to break her written promise.

You see, in the NAGR 2010 Candidate Survey we ask candidates if they would support legislation to reduce the power of the BATFE.

Jane Norton answered yes -- and now attacks her opponent because he resisted the overreaching grasp of the BATFE!

This has made us question Jane Norton's entire survey.

And since she was recruited by one of America's leading anti-gun Senators, who has routinely worked to close down the private sale of firearms in America and enact gun controls on numerous levels of the federal government...

... we have no choice but to question all of her answers to our survey.

Put simply, gun owners cannot trust Jane Norton in the U.S. Senate.

As a gun owner, and someone concerned with our Second Amendment freedoms, we encourage you to cast a vote against Jane Norton for U.S. Senate.

For liberty,


Dudley Brown
PAC Director
National Association for Gun Rights PAC


P.S. Jane Norton -- like radical anti-gunner Sarah Brady -- is embracing BATFE’s malicious persecution of gun owners, and cannot be trusted with our firearms freedoms in the U.S. Senate.

We encourage you not to vote for Jane Norton in the August 10th Republican primary.

Ranger
07-22-2010, 11:28
Honestly, I don't think anyone in Colorado politics is worth the dirt on my boots. Lickyourpooper, what a joke he is. Norton, she's a typical politician that will just drift whatever way gets her the votes. Buck has some questionable ethics. I like Maes but he got screwed by the party for the official nod.

So, I'll vote for Buck because I cannot stand Norton, she's too phony for me. I'll vote for Maes because McGinnis is a dufus that should have dropped out of the race - if McGinnis gets the primary then Lickyourpooper will eat him alive with the plagiarism stuff and we lose sure as hell. If Maes wins then republicans will stand behind him, he's their guy then, and he might just beat our crappy Denver mayor out.

Irving
07-22-2010, 11:38
I heard both Buck and Norton on NPR. Norton drove me crazy. Every question she answered with, "I've said..." Never, "I feel," "I think," "I believe," nothing like that. Every time it was some bullshit scripted answer that started with "I've said..." I wanted to call in and ask her if she was conducting the interview based on notes of things she's done in the past, or if she can actually think about a question and respond to it with her actual feelings.

StagLefty
07-22-2010, 11:38
I think the guy from MAD magazine that used to run as a write in is my only choice anymore.

DeusExMachina
07-22-2010, 11:42
I saw that email.

I drew some scary comparisons between her and Kirsten Gillibrand, the senator from New York.

Gillibrand's representative campaign was focused around being pro-gun, pro-small town NY, and generally the right side of moderate. There was even some bit about the guns she keeps under her bed.

As soon as she was recruited to fill the vacant senate seat, COMPLETE 180. Suddenly she supported a 50 caliber ban (that would make the 12ga she formerly kept under her bed an illegal weapon), microstamping, and an even harsher NY AWB. She made no claims against being fully anti-gun.

And guess who recruited her? Charles Schumer, who is so anti-gun his last name might as well be Brady.

Gillibrand is a major reason I got the hell out of NY.

cebeu
07-22-2010, 12:37
Norton is nothing but a "next in-line" candidate IMO, a scripted play-book persona that just happens to now have a face, name and SSN for GOP election process use.

As an aside, everytime I hear one of those constant whiny-ass spots where that campaign is dumpin' on the competition (Buck), her name rises futher on my "fuck-off" list. Yeah...yeah..."but those negative adds work..." They may (say the pundits) but not in the circles I travel in.

Batteriesnare
07-22-2010, 12:44
I can't stand Norton's campaign ads. It seems to me that her entire opportunity of being elected rests on people buying her smear campaign of Buck, or rather, her side of what happened. She can go to hell.

rforsythe
07-23-2010, 11:19
I dunno, her ad last night got a laugh out of me, trying to call out Buck for talking about having "real weld cty bullshit on his cowboy boots". As someone who grew up on a ranch east of Parker I completely know where he was going with that statement and have no issue with it, but I'm guessing she hasn't spent a day outside of suburbia and just can't fathom why a comment like that would be appropriate to many Coloradans.

Politics aside, so far he's the only one that just doesn't seem like a total douchebag personality-wise to me. I'm not all "republican this" or "democrat that" (I hate this partisan BS, why can't people just get elected because they want to do the right thing?) but he seems like he's at least in touch with reality.

Ranger
07-23-2010, 11:57
I hate attack ads in general, I think they really highlight how weak a candidate is that they cannot stand on their own ideology to win the seat. I like Buck, I think he would be the better candidate and have a real chance of winning - Norton is going to get clobbered but may still win just because of how much people are disappointed with Obooboo and his legions of worshipers.