Everytown/Mom's Demand Action

[Ah Pook]

Maybe RMGO could get a booth. They are local.

More paid signature takers. Probably don't know/care what they are signing.

[merl]

Maybe RMGO could get a booth. They are local.

More paid signature takers. Probably don't know/care what they are signing.

Even if they are just collecting names & email addresses that is dangerous. They are positioning themselves as a massive grassroots pressure group organized to send in millions of letters pushing for more common sense controls. They are creating a direct counter to the NRA grassroots pressure.

Edit: This is nationwide. This is what Bloomberg's money is buying.
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=756076

Took the kids to a local 4th of July parade, and saw a contingent of MDAGSA parading in the contingent. Other THR members probably have seen this before, but this was my first direct exposure to the Mothers group.

A few things struck me about their presence:

• the front ranks held a huge, high quality banner (nicer than the local FD or any veterans group had)
• all (some 35-40 of them) had professionally printed signs and placards
• They were all dressed in quite well done t-shirts with the MDAGSA across the front and back
• They also had a booth presence in the festival center, again with professional tabletop banner, placards and collateral.
• They had an array of issue papers and fill-in-the blank letters for folks to mail their local politicians.