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Gun Group Accuses Obama Campaign of Swiping Its E-mail List
October 09, 2008 9:45 PM
The National Shooting Sports Foundation -- the trade association for the hunting, shooting sports, firearms, and ammunition industry -- this week sent a legal letter to the Obama campaign accusing the Democrats of misappropriating the trade group's email distribution list.
For the NSSF's annual SHOT (Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade) show, the group has compiled a list of members of the media who attend -- names, emails, mailing addresses. No one gets to use the list without officially renting it.
Somehow, the NSSF charges, on September 27, 2008, the Obama campaign's Hoosier arm -- "Indiana for Change" -- distributed a press release to the SHOT Show media list, one entitled "Statement from Barack Obama on National Hunting and Fishing Day."
"Obama for America through its Indiana for Change arm has violated NSSF's legal rights and caused NSSF damages for partisan political gain," accuses Lawrence Keane, vice president and legal counsel for the trade association, demanding that Obama's campaign stop using the list, destroy it, and pay NSSF a quarter million dollars for having used it.
Keane also says Obama has yet to respond to an inquiry he sent on July 4 asking if the senator believes the Chicago ban on handguns is constitutional in light of the Supreme Court's Heller ruling that D.C.'s ban is not.
The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
- jpt
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HAH! I GET THE LAST BLOG!! OBAMA WINS!!! YAY!!! WHIPEE!!!WOO WOO!!!!
Posted by: lars siler | Nov 27, 2008 9:03:06 AM
Real Democrats will not vote for Obama! Good traditional Democrats treasure Democracy and will not countenance voter fraud and lies.
Posted by: marcy harris | Oct 14, 2008 11:26:17 AM
Just one comment on Ayers and Obama. You don't start your polical life in the home and someone you don't know real well. Any body who thinks differently is just got the blinders on and think about it yourself, would you put you polical career in the hands of some guy you don't know real well. Give me a break.
Posted by: Robert | Oct 11, 2008 10:03:48 AM
The way John McCain has allowed the two women in his life be the mouthpieces for his anger,as he stands sheepishly by their side- I herefore dub them the Rocky and Bullwinkle ticket(moose and squirrel)
Posted by: lars siler | Oct 11, 2008 3:46:08 AM
The right to bear arms shall not be infringed-if you believe the 2nd amendment was meant to be taken literally,irregardless of your definition of what a militia is,then I ask for your support,and for the NRA to give me legal representation,in my effort to buy nuclear weapons and Scud missiles,
Posted by: lars siler | Oct 11, 2008 1:19:41 AM
This is ridiculous!!! How convenient!! Please tell them to go back to where they came from. I have had it with hate mongering, assassination enticements!!! These groups are dangerous!!
Posted by: Sharonklim | Oct 10, 2008 5:58:12 PM
Interesting. Two things to keep in mind:
1) the release was written and distributed by the NSFF...hence the vitriol, but more important,
2) anyone can buy the entire list for $150... for NSSF members, it's only $75.
The issue is the term "unlawfully obtained" which means either the Indiana Obama Campaign pretended it was someone else to buy the list (though there is no mention of that in the release the NSFF wrote)...or that someone at the NSSF didn't think about who was buying the list and just processed the payment and sent the campaign the list...or someone got the list legally and forwarded the list (illegally) to someone the Obama campaign....there has to be a paper trail either way...
Posted by: EE | Oct 10, 2008 4:33:46 PM
re: "The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
right , and they won't because this stuff is sooooo lame.......... keep it up, !
I will love the look on your faces late evening Nov 4, 2008.
Posted by: dewde | Oct 10, 2008 1:36:23 PM
"The Obama campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment."
Typical, just like they are stalling all other requests for information on the snake oil salesman they have for a candidate.
Posted by: CrystalD | Oct 10, 2008 1:28:05 PM
Hero:
keep that Ayers stuff up, right up to the election, where McCain & Gov. Moose lose big time.
Posted by: dewde | Oct 10, 2008 1:12:15 PM
Heard on radio yesterday that there is a dem in Washington proposing a bill to tax our 401K. Letting us save money has cost the govt 800B dollars. These dem bums should be voted out of office. All they can think of is how to take our money and tell us they "feel our pain".
Hero: Keep the information coming.
Posted by: Polly | Oct 10, 2008 12:25:08 PM
Voter Fraud in Ohio:
unbelievable that a U.S. district judge must issue an order requiring that the Ohio Secretary of State verify registrations.
CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered Ohio’s top elections official to verify the identity of newly registered voters by matching them with other government documents.
U.S. District Judge George C. Smith in Columbus ruled that Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner must perform verification required by the Help America Vote Act. That includes matching new registrants’ information against information in databases maintained by the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles or the Social Security Administration.
The order was the result of a lawsuit the Ohio Republican Party filed against Brunner, a Democrat. …
Judge Issues TRO Against the Ohio (Democrat) Secretary of State:
Apparently, in some quarters, intervening in instances of a guy registering to vote 72 times and people being harassed by ACORN to register multiple times fall into the category of “suppression” rather than “fraud”. Thank God some of the targets who were harassed had the honor and courage to speak up.
"“Plaintiffs assert, and the court agrees, that it is hard to imagine a public interest more compelling than safeguarding the legitimacy of the election of the president of the United States,” [U.S. District Judge George C. Smith in Columbus, Ohio] wrote in his ruling."
Posted by: Hero | Oct 10, 2008 11:19:55 AM
Another Muslim outreach director under the Obama bus?
from WallStreetJournal:
"Obama's Staff Slips Up With Muslim Outreach"
Minha Husaini, the Obama campaign’s most recent Muslim outreach director, “participated in a meeting in mid September that was attended by several controversial Muslim activists,” Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative Producer, reported late last evening.
The Obama campaign now concedes that was a misjudgment, and that its top Muslim staffer would not have attended the meeting if she had known the full participant list beforehand. …
On September 15, newly named Muslim outreach director Minha Husaini spoke to a small group of Muslim leaders and potential Obama supporters at a hotel in Springfield, Virginia, several meeting participants and the campaign said. Two other Obama-affiliated Democratic Party workers joined Husaini and also spoke to the crowd.
This is not the problem. Susan Schmidt reported in the Wall Street Journal
PARTICIPANTS INCLUDED leaders of the Council of American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society [MAS], which have been cited by the government in the past for ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
Schmidt writes the U.S. Justice Department “has asserted in court proceedings that [MAS]’s organizers were members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a global group promoting political Islam.”
Posted by: Hero | Oct 10, 2008 11:07:39 AM
THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE:
1981-1983 = William Ayers and Barack Obama meet at Columbia?
1987 = William Ayers links up with Barack Obama in Chicago
1988 = Ayers solicits Khalid Al-Mansour to raise money for Obama’s Harvard law School education
1989 = Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle.
1993 = Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation
1995 = Ayers makes Obama Chairman of Annenberg Challenge
1995 = Ayers hosts a coffee klatch for Obama’s political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he met Ayers)
2007-2008 = The structure of Obama’s presidential campaign increasingly comes to resemble an Ayers-designed national “community organizer matrix” straight out of Maoist theory. This is not merely a presidential “campaign.” Obama’s organization is the first installment of an ongoing movement being paid for with tax-exempt contributions to his campaign, approaching half a billion dollars (many of it from foreign Middle East sources).
2008 = Obama, in response to ABC News, tells a national TV audience he was “six years old” when Ayers bombed federal buildings, and that they are only casual neighborhood acquaintances.
Posted by: Hero | Oct 10, 2008 11:02:07 AM
Emm,
For the record, there have also been plenty of attempts by the RNC to block eligible voters. Trying to prevent people with foreclosures from voting, purging eligible voters from rolls and whatnot.
Posted by: Grey Matter | Oct 10, 2008 11:01:46 AM
How can you trust him to do what he says on taxes, education, health care?
Obama is LYING about Ayers:
“Why don’t we just clear it up right now,” Obama told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson in an exclusive interview for World News. “I’ll repeat again what I’ve said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois . . . And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that . . . I’ve ‘palled around with a terrorist’, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points.”
But Obama LIED about Ayers. The two have a relationship that goes back many years during which Ayers continued to express his profoundly anti-American views. Ayers helped launch Obama’s political career and has been at his side throughout Obama’s early career.
Obama is LYING about ACORN:
Madeline Talbott, lead organizer of the Chicago ACORN community organization: “Barack has proven himself among our members. He is committed to organizing, to building a democracy. Above all else, he is a good listener, and we accept and respect him as a kindred spirit, a fellow organizer.”
Obama LIED about Rev. Wright:
“The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation.” — Barack Hussein Obama March 14, 2008
DON'T EVEN MENTION THE FAKE COLB !...
Obama lies about who and what he really is...
How can anyone believe his promises in this presidential campaign?
Posted by: Hero | Oct 10, 2008 11:00:35 AM
Delay the return from IRAQ to get elected ?
Washington Times:
Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal
In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay
Posted by: Hero | Oct 10, 2008 10:46:36 AM
"In Texas, over 4,000 DEAD PEOPLE are on the voting registration books — and some of those people were dead during the primaries, but voted anyway."
Big difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud. How could those dead people vote?
Posted by: Emm | Oct 10, 2008 10:42:38 AM
For heavens sake. A trade group has a MEDIA LIST. People on that list get a press release from Obama. Trade group accuses Obama group of stealing it?
It is a media list. I did not know the media hid their e-mail addresses from anybody. I do not know what is stupider,this accusation or a member of the national media covering it.
Posted by: ricky | Oct 10, 2008 10:35:59 AM
I suppose McCain/Palin are below common civility which is why they feel obliged to incite their supporters to call their opponent a "terrorist". Even if you think he was involved in voter fraud-which he is not- he certainly is no terrorist. Elected officials DO get subject to background checks, you know.
Posted by: Grey Matter | Oct 10, 2008 10:30:17 AM
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