GAO Email Alert on Sotomayor

[Guest oldfella]

Senate Judiciary Votes "Yes" on Sonia Sotomayor

-- Full Senate to vote on her nomination soon

Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert

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Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408

http://www.gunowners.org

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

It was nearly a party-line vote. While every Democrat on the Senate

Judiciary Committee voted in favor of Judge Sonia Sotomayor today,

almost every Republican voted against her... all except for turncoat

Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

Apparently, the flighty Republican did not care that Judge Sotomayor has

demonstrated an extreme anti-gun bias in her private and public life.

Not only that, she has expressed racist views in multiple speeches over

the years, and she has proven -- in her actions and words -- that she is

committed to IGNORING THE CONSTITUTION!

The Sotomayor nomination now moves to the U.S. Senate floor, where gun

owners definitely face an uphill battle.

Press reports have indicated that Sotomayor is giving Senators private

assurances that she will follow Supreme Court precedents on the Second

Amendment. This is ridiculous, of course, but it doesn't help that a

liberal front group claiming to support the Second Amendment -- the

American Hunters and Shooters Association -- is supporting Sotomayor,

giving cover to wavering Democrats.

Politico.com reports that AHSA "will be highlighted as part of a

rapid-fire response strategy Democrats plan to launch to respond to GOP

attacks."

The fact that AHSA endorsed Obama during the campaign should demonstrate

that this group is nothing more than a Trojan horse. That's why we need

Senators to know that gun owners consider a vote for Sotomayor to be one

of the most ANTI-GUN votes they could ever cast and that front groups

like AHSA don't speak for you!

ACTION: Please contact your two Senators and urge them to vote NO on

Judge Sotomayor. Tell them that the American Hunters and Shooters

Association doesn't speak for you. Please use the Gun Owners

Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm to

send your legislators the pre-written e-mail message below.

----- Pre-written letter -----

Dear Senator:

The confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor would be a horrible choice for

Americans -- not to mention the gun owners of this country. Throughout

her career, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has shown that she opposes the right

to keep and bear arms, denies there is a constitutional right to

self-defense, and frequently ignores constitutional and statutory

precedents.

However, I understand that a front group called the American Hunters and

Shooters Association is supporting Sotomayor, giving cover to wavering

Senators.

Please understand that AHSA is NOT a pro-gun organization. This

organization shares many of the same goals as the Brady Campaign, and it

is nothing more than a Trojan horse in the gun rights community.

After all, this is a group that according to records from 2005 had fewer

than 150 dues paying individual members. Its founding president, Ray

Schoenke, donated money to the radical Handgun Control, Inc. -- a group

that argued in favor of the DC gun ban (which was struck down by the

Supreme Court last year). And another of its founding members, John

Rosenthal, was also the founder of Stop Handgun Violence.

I am a proud supporter of Gun Owners of America, and they do speak for

me and the gun rights community when they say that Judge Sonia Sotomayor

is bad for the Constitution... bad for the Second Amendment... and bad

for America.

Sincerely,

[oldogy]

Yep, use the action center, very easy. I really don't think you have to be a GOA member to use it. I really do not think it will do any good but we must voice our outrage in numbers. She is too far left, known anti second amendment, and vocally racist. We just don't need her ilk on the court making legislation.

oldogy