Posted August 22, 2019 1:19 pm by Comments

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter

Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown For Gun Safety says it will spend more than $2-million in this fall’s Virginia elections, starting with a $135,000 ad buy targeting Republican lawmakers in several suburban districts around the state, including northern Virginia, Richmond, and the Virginia Beach area.

“Everytown has launched our most robust electoral program ever for Virginia, and we have one simple goal: Hold gun lobby lawmakers accountable for their choices,” John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said via email.

The strategy highlights the route that Democrats feel they can take to win control of the legislature this fall, when all 140 seats are up for election. In an off-off year, with no presidential or gubernatorial races on the ticket to drive turnout, Democrats have to stir up voter interest in close suburban districts that have been trending blue.

“Stir up interest” means “scare suburban moms” in this case. Oh, and according to the message testing that Everytown’s conducted, “stir up interest” also means “attack Republican lawmakers”.

The message-testing was conducted in suburban areas at the end of July and beginning of August – before the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, that inflamed the topic …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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