Thursday, May 1, 2014

NEVADA - SUE LOWDEN FOR LY GOVERNOR DERIDES OPPONENT (RIGHTFULLY SO)

Hutchison’s Real Record on Gun Rights

"Watch what we do, not what we say,” was the infamous advice President Richard Nixon’s first attorney general, John Mitchell, gave to the press way back in 1969.  After all, talk is cheap.
 
That same advice should be heeded by Republican primary voters when it comes to lieutenant governor candidate Mark Hutchison.
 
As with so many other issues – especially his embrace of ObamaCare and almost gleeful embrace of tax hikes in last year’s legislative session – Sen. Hutchison’s record on gun rights doesn’t even come close to his rhetoric.
 
For example, as painfully detailed by rape survivor Amanda Collins in a letter on my behalf, Sen. Hutchison refused to co-sponsor a “campus carry” bill last session that almost every other Republican legislator signed onto. 
 
He said had to check with Minority Leader Michael Roberson first, and listen to the arguments against the bill from the likes of Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun organization.
 
That was outrageous and unforgivable.  But now consider this…
 
As you may recall, back in 2012 President Barack Obama nominated and Sen. Harry Reid championed the appointment of Elissa Cadish to the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.  After the nomination, it was discovered how hostile Judge Cadish was on gun rights.
 
In a 2008 campaign questionnaire from Citizens for Responsible Government when she was running for judge, Cadish was asked, “Do you believe the individual citizen has a constitutional right to keep and bear arms?”
 
“I do not believe there is this constitutional right,” she wrote in response.  “Thus, I believe that reasonable restrictions may be imposed on gun ownership in the interest of public safety.”
 
Wow.
 
Fortunately, Nevada Sen. Dean Heller issued a “blue slip” and single-handedly blocked Cadish’s nomination to the federal bench; what would have been a lifetime appointment and a lifetime of potential anti-gun rights decisions.
 
Now here’s the kicker…
 
In the same year that Cadish said she didn't believe there was a constitutional right to keep and bear arms and voiced support for gun rights restrictions, guess whose law firm kicked in $1,000 for her election?
 
Yep, Hutchison & Steffen LLC!
 
But that’s not all.
 
Guess whose law firm also donated $1,598.28 worth of free “in kind” services to Judge Cadish’s election?
 
Right again, Hutchison & Steffen LLC!
 
So the next time you hear Mark Hutchison shooting off his mouth about being a staunch Second Amendment supporter, you’ll know he’s really just shooting blanks.

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