Nope, Mihos has zero chance. And the more support he gets, the more votes he takes away from Healey.Mihos, although an unlikely Independent, is your best hope
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Nope, Mihos has zero chance. And the more support he gets, the more votes he takes away from Healey.Mihos, although an unlikely Independent, is your best hope
"Devil" Patrick's site- did any of you read to the bottom of the page where he said that in order to support gun control he'd limit private sales to 1 per month? What an asshat! How can limiting LEGAL sales help with ILLEGAL trafficking??!?! God I HATE people who think like this!
That was in the post with the article I linked to 13 posts up (14 up from this one). ;-)
Somebody should find out when the next discussion/debate takes place. Usually, there is a chance to submit questions.
The subject should be: Human Rights / Civil Rights
Then hit them with the big one; the question of what they think of MA gun owners civil and human right to self defense and how they can improve these rights for residents of MA.
Gabrielli is allegedly appearing in the South Shore area soon, but I erased the message and can't find his campaign website.
I've had numerous calls from 617-000-0000 which turns out to be his campaign computer dialer. Yesterday's included a message to join him at some place in the South Shore (I think tomorrow night) to meet and ask him questions. I was busy yesterday when the call was transfered to my cell phone and annoyed by it so I deleted it.
August 14 Marina Bay. You missed it I guess.
What do you think you are going to prove? That they are anti-gun? They are and they are proud of it. And the people in the audience will be glad that they are anti-gun.I'm thinking it might be easier when they are on the road, doing small town Q&A sort of thing where they read questions off index cards. It's worked before.
Somebody should find out when the next discussion/debate takes place. Usually, there is a chance to submit questions.
The subject should be: Human Rights / Civil Rights
Then hit them with the big one; the question of what they think of MA gun owners civil and human right to self defense and how they can improve these rights for residents of MA.
Gabrielli has a good sized lead on Patrick. Reilly's hopes fade further and further everyday... 30 days to go...
They'll likely just sidestep the whole thing and not answer your question.
They might just opine that they "agree with enforcing existing gun laws."
which is the default position that is usually trotted out by most politicos
these days.
Or they might start in on a bradyesque tone about the so called "right of
people to be free from gun violence" emo-crap rebuttal. Kind of doubt
that, but wouldn't surprise me if a moron like Jarett Barrios whipped that one
out pretty much on demand. Someone likely to be running for governor
is probably not quite that inflammatory. (Remember, all things are
relative..... even though he might be an anti, gabrieli is probably going
to be a softy in comparison to reilly ).
-Mike
What do you think you are going to prove? That they are anti-gun? ...
... Most voters here are either
completely ignorant about the metric ton of gun laws, or they
simply don't care. This kind of antipathy is what allows the antis
to win... they know the block doesn't care, so they get away with
murder.
This is true in places like CA as well, where the pols can effectively stomp
on gun rights virtually unchallenged, because the "critical mass" of voters
is either anti gun or doesnt care.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't try to do it, though. The fact that
a question may actually get through the gauntlet of crap and be
addressed is good in and of itself, but we have to work on the voting
block itself, not just the politicians....
Coyote33, you're not going to be able to prove that to them!I guess the point was to prove that they are anti civil rights and anti human rights. Make them step on their own toes. You're probably right. We should all just bend over and take it.
NOW JUST WAIT A COTTEN-PICKING MINUTE! This type of comment really, really, really gets me angry. If you want to disagree with what I wrote, then disagree with what I wrote. BUT STOP ACCUSING ME OF SAYING THINGS THAT I DID NOT SAY OR IN ANY WAY IMPLY.You're probably right. We should all just bend over and take it.
...NOW JUST WAIT A COTTEN-PICKING MINUTE! This type of comment really, really, really gets me angry. If you want to disagree with what I wrote, then disagree with what I wrote. BUT STOP ACCUSING ME OF SAYING THINGS THAT I DID NOT SAY OR IN ANY WAY IMPLY.
I have not, in any way, suggested that we stop trying. There are forums where we can make progress and forums where it doesn't make sense. For 99% of us, trying to fence with a politician in such a public forum will just provide them the ability to make us look like fools.
As suspected, nothing very earth shattering.