I am employed by an agency that does canvassing for campaigns all over the west coast, most of which are left wing. Our most recent assignment is door-to-door petition work in Reno and Sparks in order to get an effect on the 2016 ballot that, if passed, would require background checks for unlicensed gun sales. My agency has brought in ~200 people on buses from Seattle, Portland, and Tacoma to try to push this through before the deadline on Wednesday.
And that is the crap we are facing. But besides the obvious influx of money, please note in the screen cap that this post was made 4 days ago and the OP said something very telling:
“to try to push this through before the deadline on Wednesday.”
Now, the Bloomberg machine only needed just over 100,000 signatures to get the Initiative in the ballot but suddenly they need to bring people from outside the state to “push” this (they did not have enough signatures) at the last-minute and they show close to a quarter of a million signatures on deadline day?
The smell of low tide keeps hinting around this thing.
Hat Tip to Donny anonny.
I also find it funny beyond words that they seem to need some form of self defense and can’t think of one.
He was irony itself and missed it.
I wonder if this is to bait people into challenging the signatures?
to what purpose? waste resources?
No idea. Make them look stupid if they do have enough for a ballot measure? They will of course conveniently gloss over the fact that half the signatures were thrown out. “They challenged our ballot measure, and it went through anyway!”
I cannot think of another reason to do it, but I am by no means an expert on this kind of thing.
Here’s some other fun stuff about the petition gatherers in Washington for i594:
http://youtu.be/lui1ndWXKXQ?list=PL9iomIA_ZXN-cALyImCRRX0RlBWsvlkdg
Arg. Got the wrong link. Here’s the one I meant to post:
Ok. I give up. Just go to youtube and search
“Just Make Up An Address: Shady Anti-Gun Petitioners Caught Breaking Election Laws”
Smell of low tide, my ass! This reeks like the Salton Sea at high summer!
I don’t believe the story is anything but a Collectivist attempt to paint gun owners as dangerous violent thugs.
It is probably all a lie. If there is a shred of truth to it, it is obscured by the trash they’re trying to sell to the herd.
Yep — he describes multiple incidents of assault with a deadly weapon. Why aren’t there police reports?
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Another fine example of why you can NEVER stop fighting for your rights. Just because the mid-term elections, in general, went our way doesn’t mean you can stop fighting. NEVER STOP FIGHTING.