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Citizens Committee Urges John McCain To Retire
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Citizens Committee Urges John McCain To Retire From United States
Senate
To: National and State Desks
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911;
Web site: http://www.ccrkba.org
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- His third term in
the United States Senate scheduled to end in two years, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
today said that Arizona Sen. John McCain should retire from public
service, rather than seek re-election in 2004.
"John McCain began his Congressional career as a genuine war
hero, running on a solid platform representative of the views of
his Arizona constituents," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
"However, the past few years have seen Senator McCain increasingly
turn his back on virtually every one of those principles, to the
point that he not only no longer appears to be working with his own
party caucus, he does not represent the interests of voters in his
state.
"He has especially attacked the rights of gun owners, who are a
major share of the voters in Arizona," Gottlieb stated. "He has
either sponsored or embraced virtually every recent liberal
anti-gun proposal. Clearly, Senator McCain has developed his own
agenda, assaulting rather than safeguarding the firearm civil
rights of the very people who elected him."
Added CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, "McCain hasn't
simply lost touch with the people who elected him, he has abandoned
their free speech and gun rights to become a media darling. He
enjoys hobnobbing with beltway elitists and the Far Left fringe.
That may make him popular with the Sunday morning network talk
shows, but it does not translate to serving the voters of Arizona."
McCain's attacks on the First Amendment rights of various
interest groups, combined with his continued assault on the Second
Amendment rights of gun owners, not only in Arizona but across the
nation, convince Gottlieb and Waldron that it is time for McCain to
step down at the end of his current term.
"Senator McCain has steadily distanced himself from the programs
and pledges that earned Republicans control of Congress in 1994,"
Gottlieb said. "His current views, as demonstrated by the
legislation he advocates, are shared by a shrinking minority of
career politicians who are out of touch with the interests and
needs of most Americans."
"John McCain has served his country, at times with great
courage," Waldron observed. "He would do the citizens of Arizona,
and the country, an even greater service by not seeking another
term in the U.S. Senate."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of
the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local communities throughout the United States.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
07/10 17:07
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/prime/0710-139.html
"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
Senate
To: National and State Desks
Contact: Alan Gottlieb of the Citizens Committee for the Right to
Keep and Bear Arms, 425-454-4911;
Web site: http://www.ccrkba.org
BELLEVUE, Wash., July 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- His third term in
the United States Senate scheduled to end in two years, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA)
today said that Arizona Sen. John McCain should retire from public
service, rather than seek re-election in 2004.
"John McCain began his Congressional career as a genuine war
hero, running on a solid platform representative of the views of
his Arizona constituents," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
"However, the past few years have seen Senator McCain increasingly
turn his back on virtually every one of those principles, to the
point that he not only no longer appears to be working with his own
party caucus, he does not represent the interests of voters in his
state.
"He has especially attacked the rights of gun owners, who are a
major share of the voters in Arizona," Gottlieb stated. "He has
either sponsored or embraced virtually every recent liberal
anti-gun proposal. Clearly, Senator McCain has developed his own
agenda, assaulting rather than safeguarding the firearm civil
rights of the very people who elected him."
Added CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron, "McCain hasn't
simply lost touch with the people who elected him, he has abandoned
their free speech and gun rights to become a media darling. He
enjoys hobnobbing with beltway elitists and the Far Left fringe.
That may make him popular with the Sunday morning network talk
shows, but it does not translate to serving the voters of Arizona."
McCain's attacks on the First Amendment rights of various
interest groups, combined with his continued assault on the Second
Amendment rights of gun owners, not only in Arizona but across the
nation, convince Gottlieb and Waldron that it is time for McCain to
step down at the end of his current term.
"Senator McCain has steadily distanced himself from the programs
and pledges that earned Republicans control of Congress in 1994,"
Gottlieb said. "His current views, as demonstrated by the
legislation he advocates, are shared by a shrinking minority of
career politicians who are out of touch with the interests and
needs of most Americans."
"John McCain has served his country, at times with great
courage," Waldron observed. "He would do the citizens of Arizona,
and the country, an even greater service by not seeking another
term in the U.S. Senate."
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of
the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in
local communities throughout the United States.
http://www.usnewswire.com
-0-
/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
07/10 17:07
Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/prime/0710-139.html
"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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