From: gray@hawkmoon.mn.org (Bill Gray)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Damage Assessment after Comrade Clinton's victory?
Date: 9 Nov 92 07:50:28 GMT
Organization: Demi-Public System (One of the Eternal Champions); Eagan, MN, 55123-2507, USA

betz@gozer.idbsu.edu (Andrew Betz) writes:

>does neal knox have a damage assessment out yet?  things appear to
>be pretty bleak on the national scene: i'm aware of victories by
>braun, boxer, and feinstein (triple ugh).  let me give some good
>news: idaho just elected republican dirk kempthorne ('A' or 'B'
>rating) adding oomph to idaho's other pro-gun senator, craig.
>we also just reelected the democrat 'A' (and nra-endorsed) candidate
>larry larocco for the house.  the other representative was mike crapo
>(pronounced cray-pough, not crap-oh) and i'm pretty sure he was a
>pro-gunner.


Well, the People's Republic of Minnesotax (TM), never one to let a tax-
and-spender go unemployed, gleefully elected Clinoccio, and his faithful
companion Algore.

HOWEVER!  We in the 6th Congressional district were able to rouse ourselves
from our stupor enought to give Gerry Sikorski a chance to go out and find
a Real Job for a change.  We fired him in favor of Rod Grams, a former TV
anchorman locally.

Sikorski had recently flipgflpooed on two major issues: abortion and gun
control.  (I'm not going to argue the abortion issue here.  But Sikorski
is Catholic and had always sided with the pro-life crowd.  Recently he changed
his position out of political expediency.  He had long been seen as a fairly
solid B on guns, too, and also betrayed us.)  The reason for these changes
seems to be ambition:  He wants Dave Durenberger's Senate seat in '94,
and after the fools here voted for Wellstone, he figured he'd have to move
further left to get the statewide support he'll need for a Senate bid.

But all that crafty calculation and shifting was done before we learned that
he had 697 bogus checks totalling nearly $120,000--and that he was blaming
his wife for it!


ANd he ran anti-Grams, anti-NRA ads so everyone that voted probably knew his
antigun stance and Grams' pro-gun stance.  And Grams' margin was fairly
comfortable.  There was a spoiler candidate, Dean Barkley, a leftist who
unaccountably believes in fiscal conservatism (sorta Perotish to my mind),
who may have played Perot to Sikorski's Bush: he divided the pro-abortion
vote and dre about 15% of the ballots.  That was more than Gram's margin,
so it may have been much closer than it was had he not run.  But maybe
not; Sikorski was justifiably despised for the ethical sleaze he was.

Anyway, Sikorski was an F, Grams is a B+ or A- -- there's no legislative
history and we've all been burned before. . . but after the gun attack
ads, it's unlikely that he'll vote against us unless he really thinks we're
wrong.


Anyway--it's not the White House, but we had no real good shot there anyway.
And we took an important vote away from The Other Side.

Feels good, that.



Bill
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From: ron@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ron Miller)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:05:14 GMT
Subject: Re: Japanese exchange student killed in Louisiana...
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA