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Ahhhh.........political suicide, gotta love it.
Yeah, this one is so extreme it doesn't have a chance in hell. They LOST Democratic co-sponsors from the last one.
Here's what I sent to Senate Judiciary Committee chair Floyd Prozanski:
And of course, now I hear about HB 3200. I believe the term "facepalm" is appropriate here.
Please remind your esteemed colleagues Sens. Burdick, Dingfelder, Hass, Monnes-Anderson, Monroe, Shields, and Steiner-Hayward that there *ARE* plenty of Democratic gun owners, and they *DO* vote in the primary. As I'm sure you know full well, this bill has as much chance of passage as Mitt Romney had of winning Washington DC's vote. This is a pointless statement that only serves to draw fire on the Democratic Party, and drive *AWAY* convince-able voters.
As the newly elected chair of the Multnomah County Democrats said last night, Oregon is lucky to be one of only 7 states that have a Democratic-controlled congress and all elected Executive positions, as well as having two Democratic federal Senators, and an 80% Democratic federal congressional delegation. Yet of those 7, Oregon has the CLOSEST Democrat/Republican voter registration margin. Driving the public view of the party as "extreme" will *HURT* us, not help us.
We *JUST* re-won the majority in the state House - don't guarantee that we lose it in 2014 please.
(I had literally an hour earlier sent him my opinions on the "four remaining" firearms bills.) Yes, I wrote it as a "party insider letting you know that supporting this would be committing political suicide" point of view. Never hurts to remind them that they do still have to win primaries.