Giffords Kicks Off Huge Media Buy In Virginia Ahead Of Elections

By Tom Knighton

Money, in and of itself, won’t win elections. However, a lack of money sure can, but money won’t win all by itself. You also have to have ideas and a message that will rally the voters to you.

Gun control groups like Giffords figure they already have that, so they’re spending money like there’s no tomorrow. Most recently, they’re dropping a huge chunk of change in Virginia ahead of general elections next year.

Giffords PAC announced it would spend $300,000 in ads across legislative districts in Virginia, with a focus on the Richmond and Virginia Beach regions, through Election Day on November 5. The group announced another $50,000 expenditure on a digital ad campaign supporting Omar Montgomery, who is running for mayor in Aurora, Colorado, against National Rifle Association–aligned candidate Mike Coffman.

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After a government employee in Virginia Beach, Virginia, killed 12 people at a municipal building in May, the NRA helped tamp down an effort by the state’s Democratic governor to convene a special legislative session in favor of several gun violence prevention measures. The session was largely pro forma, as the Virginia General Assembly is controlled by Republicans. Despite the NRA’s spending turnabout, it managed to help quash an unusually vociferous …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms