Gun Owners of America email

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Some of you may have recieved the mail from GOA about contacting Senator Cornyn / Chairman Steele......I just contacted Senator Cornyn's office and they said that Tom Ridge just issued a statement stating that he was no longer going to run......THANK GOODNESS!!!!!

 

Below is the email I recieved:

 

Thursday, May 7, 2009 Some Republicans still don't understand why mainstream America is soupset with their Party. Now that Sen. Arlen Specter has defected to the Democrat Party, manyprominent Republicans are openly recruiting liberal Republicans to runagainst Specter. And at the top of their list is Tom Ridge. Ridge is the turncoat Republican whose vote was crucial in passing thesemi-auto ban in 1994. After having opposed a similar ban in 1991, then-Rep. Tom Ridgeflip-flopped and teamed up with Charles Schumer (D-NY) to pass thesemi-auto gun and magazine ban. The gun ban passed narrowly, 216 to214, thanks to Tom Ridge. Later, as Governor of Pennsylvania, Ridge signed one of the mostrestrictive gun control laws in the State's history -- the infamous Act17 which registered and taxed long gun buyers and placed otherrestrictions on Keystone State gun owners. As the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge opposedarming pilots. He asked, sarcastically, if pilots carry guns, thenshould we also arm railroad engineers and bus drivers? As DHS Director,Ridge should have led the charge to arm pilots and people in otherpositions that fell under the agency's purview. Instead, he just repeated the same tired old anti-gun line that we hearevery time a state passes a concealed carry handgun law. Guess who else opposed the armed pilots program? Pennsylvania's"Benedict" Arlen Specter, who was one of only two Republican Senators tovote against the bill. The last thing we need is another elitist in Congress who does not trustlaw-abiding citizens with firearms. And yet, wishy-washy RepublicanSenators like Utah's Orrin Hatch and South Carolina's Lindsey Graham aretouting Ridge over Specter. In other words, let's replace one turncoatwith another. There is a better option. His name is Pat Toomey, a Gun Owners ofAmerica "A" rated pro-gunner who served in the U.S. House ofRepresentatives for three terms, before honoring a self-imposed termlimit and retiring in 2004. Those who are pushing anti-gunner Tom Ridge claim that Pat Toomey isunelectable because he's "too conservative" for Pennsylvania. But that's what self-appointed experts said before Toomey got electedterm after term in a largely Democrat district in the eastern part ofPennsylvania. And that's what they said before he accrued a giganticlead in the polls over a sitting Senator this year, forcing Specter tojump parties. It was Pat Toomey who forced Specter to jump to the Democrat Party.Toomey -- who was backed by Gun Owners of America Political Victory Fund-- was leading Specter in polls by an overwhelming margin. That's also what they said about Ronald Reagan -- who was supposedly tooconservative to win a national election. (By the way, Reagan also wonPennsylvania.) Bottom line: We need to put these squishy politicians on alert. Theirinternal party politics is their business. But when party leaders startpushing noted gun banners -- using the money contributed by millions ofgun owners around the country -- we're not going to remain silent. Texas Senator John Cornyn is the head of the National RepublicanSenatorial Committee. Michael Steele heads the Republican NationalCommittee. The decision to support an anti-gunner over a defender ofthe Second Amendment rests largely in their hands. ACTION: Please urge Senator John Cornyn and Chairman Michael Steele notto interfere in Pennsylvania's primary. There is already a pro-gun,electable conservative running in the primary who deserves theirsupport. You can contact NRSC's Sen. Cornyn at info@nrsc.org or by phone at (202)675-6000. You can contact RNC Chairman Michael Steele at chairman@gop.com or byphone at (202) 863-8700.