EXPOSE OF A DISMAL RECORD OF SUPPORTING THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION’S POSITION ON GUN LEGISLATION CALLED UNETHICAL” BY BROWN’S AG OPPONENT
By Bill Cavala
A veteran of over 30 years in Sacramento
Republican candidate for Attorney General Poochigian is crying foul over a Jerry Brown ad that features an Oakland Police Department official. As the Republicans know, the ad meets all legal guidelines. But, they complain, it avoids breaking those guidelines in an “unethical manner”.
Remarkably, the Oakland Tribune bit and made that the lead in their story on the ad.
But the point of the ad was the fact that Poochigian opposed law enforcement and remained the lap dog of the NRA as a Member of the Legislature.
The Attorney General is responsible, among other things, for the enforcement of the ban on machine-gun-like “assault weapons”, and for overseeing the laws that require gun sales to go through legitimate dealers who do the background checks designed to keep deadly firearms out of the hands of those with criminal records.
The NRA opposed that regulatory system. They support allowing anyone to carry loaded, concealed firearms. They oppose the ban in semi-automatic “assault weapons”.
And now the NRA has a candidate who agrees with them.
That’s what the Brown commercial attempts to point out. Why is that effort “unethical”? It’s true, isn’t it?
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