Let's see a link to the Guidestar for RMGO...
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Let's see a link to the Guidestar for RMGO...
I have duties in both places, and frankly, in State Legislatures around the country. I was down at the Capitol dozens of times this year, though I'm not the day-to-day, face-to-face lobbyist for RMGO (Joe Neville did that for us this year).Quote:
Originally Posted by sellersm
(Side note: anyone who tells you lobbying only happens in the Capitol is either lying to you, is a fool, or both. Putting pressure on politicians IN THEIR DISTRICTS is the only real way to change their vote on controversial issues).
One of the reasons RMGO is hiring is because my duties with NAGR are growing (we have 52+ staff members). For that reason, I took a pay CUT for RMGO in 2013, and anticipate I'll be handing more and more duties to others.
You suggest we fight local policy makers, and I agree wholeheartedly. It's why we spend a lot of time on campaigns (via our PAC and IE committee).
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Originally Posted by kawiracer14
Quit ignoring the man's request!Quote:
Originally Posted by RMGOdirector
Sent from my teepee using smoke signals.
I'm trying to find the same link. It won't pull up via RMGO's EIN, either. I've put in an e-mail to Guidestar to ask, as that is a new problem.
Also putting up a page to link to all our 990 filings (since creation of the group).
I wonder if I'm on Dudley's ignore list... He hasn't addressed my concerns... [mop]
I have addressed this, directly. When a politician or organization endorses gun control, we call it out -- you're a big boy, and can make up your mind if you care.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin13
Did you care that Gottlieb (SAF/CCRKBA) claimed (on video) to have written Toomey-Manchin? I do. You may not, but I do.
When a group endorses anti-gun politicians (Harry Reid, or to strike closer to home, Congresswoman Betsy Markey), we'll say something. And yes, it will ruffle feathers.
Right now the NRA is running commercials against Sen. Joe Manchin in West Virginia. Good for them -- so are we. We're on the same side (now, anyway -- we didn't give Joe Manchin an A+ rating, either), and don't squabble about it.
I've heard too many make wild claims about where money is spent. That was my reason for showing a news report (not my words) on an official federal filing that shows what NAGR spent opposing gun control in Congress.
The Colorado Sec. of State and/or Colorado legislature doesn't require or even have the same type of filings in this state. But if it did, you'd see that RMGO (which is admittedly much smaller in numbers and $ in this state) spent DRAMATICALLY more than the NRA did in Colorado, both this session and previous sessions.
Go to the Sec. of State website and see if you can find another pro-gun political committees (PACs, if you will) in Colorado. Maybe some formed recently, but RMGO PAC has been the ONLY pro-gun PAC (which gives direct donations to and against candidates for office) in Colorado for many years.
Ronin, if I can paraphrase your point, it's that RMGO doesn't play well with others. Mea culpa. We DEFINITELY don't play the standard old politics as usual.
We play well with the conservative, pro-gun team. No one on this forum will or can debate that.
Gun control passed the Colorado legislature for a number of reasons, the chief of them being that EVERY middle of the road GOP candidate lost in 2012. All of them.
And all of RMGO PAC's candidates, save one State House seat (McConnell), won. That swung control of the House to the Dems.
If you want to blame me/RMGO for that, I'll plead guilty to not recruiting enough candidates for office (the toughest part of my job).
Apparently not or this thread would have stopped after your 1st post...Quote:
Originally Posted by RMGOdirector
he means they play well with anyone who doesnt question them or their spending. like most politicians.Quote:
Originally Posted by RMGOdirector
You obviously aren't involved in politics -- there's PLENTY of questioning from our allies and friends. And debate. And plenty of politicians who question RMGO.Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
But, ask the most pro-gun legislators what they think of RMGO. HBAR, since you live in Weld and you seem to asserting you know politics (correct me if I'm wrong), go ahead and call State Sen. Scott Renfroe (who has carried almost half of the gun bills in his 7 years in the legislature) and ask him what he thinks of RMGO. He's a Life Member.
Or ask State Reps. Steve Humphrey, Lorie Saine, Perry Buck, or Sen. Vicki Marble (while we're staying in Weld). Or our Sheriff, or DA.
Again, I don't know you, but I'll take those names as endorsements of our program over yours any day -- not because they are politicians, but because I KNOW what they do.
And, we're growing dramatically. Plenty of members endorsing what we do.