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NRA ads take aim at Ed's stand on guns
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NRA ads take aim at Ed's stand on guns
By DAVE DAVIES
daviesd@phillynews.com
THE RECENT Keystone Poll showing Ed Rendell up by 10 points in the governor's race included an odd finding: Gun people like Ed. He led rival Bob Casey among gun owners and voters strongly opposed to new gun laws.
"What that tells us is that voters aren't terribly familiar with the candidates' views," said pollster Terry Madonna.
That's about to change.
The anticipated assault on Rendell by Pennsylvania's gun lobby has begun with hard-hitting radio ads, with TV attacks soon to follow.
"Warning, this is an urgent alert," an announcer says in a 60-second ad now running throughout the state by the National Rifle Association
"Your right to buy and own firearms is in grave danger," the ad says, calling Rendell a "big-city politician who believes your gun, not criminals, are the problem."
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam declined to say whether the NRA would air television spots attacking Rendell but said the organization "reserves our right to communicate in the most effective ways."
Meanwhile a western Pennsylvania-based organization, Firearms Owners Against Crimes, vows to open fire with both television and radio spots by the weekend.
"Ed Rendell is selling people a bill of goods," said Kim Stofler, a member of the organization, in an interview yesterday, "and we're going to tell gun owners to take a long hard look at this."
Rendell advocates a law restricting handgun purchases to one per month per person.
State Sen. Vince Fumo said at the Democratic City Committee dinner Monday that several developments in the last week of the campaign would favor Casey, including the awakening of the gun vote.
Pennsylvania has more NRA members per capita than any other state in the union.
The NRA's harsh attack is a turnabout from three years ago, when the organization and its president, Charleton Heston, praised then-Mayor Rendell's gun crackdown called Operation Cease Fire.
Casey spokeswoman Karen Walsh said the campaign has no connection to the ads, and declined to comment on their content.
"We do think they will have an effect," Walsh said. "There are two million gun owners in this state, and this will affect votes."
Rendell spokesman Dan Fee said the ads were an outrageous misrepresentation of Rendell's record and views.
"The truth is that if you abide by the law, you have nothing to fear from Ed Rendell," Fee said. "Ed favors reasonable restrictions on the purchase of handguns, while Bob Casey doesn't support any additional protections for our streets and our children." http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/3265825.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By DAVE DAVIES
daviesd@phillynews.com
THE RECENT Keystone Poll showing Ed Rendell up by 10 points in the governor's race included an odd finding: Gun people like Ed. He led rival Bob Casey among gun owners and voters strongly opposed to new gun laws.
"What that tells us is that voters aren't terribly familiar with the candidates' views," said pollster Terry Madonna.
That's about to change.
The anticipated assault on Rendell by Pennsylvania's gun lobby has begun with hard-hitting radio ads, with TV attacks soon to follow.
"Warning, this is an urgent alert," an announcer says in a 60-second ad now running throughout the state by the National Rifle Association
"Your right to buy and own firearms is in grave danger," the ad says, calling Rendell a "big-city politician who believes your gun, not criminals, are the problem."
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam declined to say whether the NRA would air television spots attacking Rendell but said the organization "reserves our right to communicate in the most effective ways."
Meanwhile a western Pennsylvania-based organization, Firearms Owners Against Crimes, vows to open fire with both television and radio spots by the weekend.
"Ed Rendell is selling people a bill of goods," said Kim Stofler, a member of the organization, in an interview yesterday, "and we're going to tell gun owners to take a long hard look at this."
Rendell advocates a law restricting handgun purchases to one per month per person.
State Sen. Vince Fumo said at the Democratic City Committee dinner Monday that several developments in the last week of the campaign would favor Casey, including the awakening of the gun vote.
Pennsylvania has more NRA members per capita than any other state in the union.
The NRA's harsh attack is a turnabout from three years ago, when the organization and its president, Charleton Heston, praised then-Mayor Rendell's gun crackdown called Operation Cease Fire.
Casey spokeswoman Karen Walsh said the campaign has no connection to the ads, and declined to comment on their content.
"We do think they will have an effect," Walsh said. "There are two million gun owners in this state, and this will affect votes."
Rendell spokesman Dan Fee said the ads were an outrageous misrepresentation of Rendell's record and views.
"The truth is that if you abide by the law, you have nothing to fear from Ed Rendell," Fee said. "Ed favors reasonable restrictions on the purchase of handguns, while Bob Casey doesn't support any additional protections for our streets and our children." http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/3265825.htm
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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