Other recent criminal cases have dogged the gun control movement. A D.C. jury recently convicted Million Mom March organizer Barbara Graham of stalking, shooting, and paralyzing an innocent man she mistakenly blamed for her son's murder. Then, on March 23, a story in the Austin Statesman-American reported that Texas talk show host Alan Jones had shot videotape showing members of the gun control lobby paying cash payoffs to gang members in exchange for testimony in favor of gun control proposals at Public Safety Committee hearings in Texas. But the gun control lobbyists and the officials who are in their pocket could use some serious investigation. About Senator Jacques' Criminal Activity Citizens for Truth in Politics has documented that Senator Jacques improperly solicited federally funded City Year workers to assist with and attend First Monday, an anti-gun rally.
Violations are punishable by fine and imprisonment up to ten years.
An attached letter from Alyson Carpenter, City Year's Director of Government Relations, documents Jacques' criminal activity. Photos of the City Year workers assisting with the rally are attached. A copy of the media advisory is attached. First Monday drew almost no attendance, but drew a significant body of orderly and effective counter-protesters demonstrating against the widespread civil rights violations under Jacques' 1998 gun law, Chapter 180. If not for the attendance of the City Year youths, counter-protesters would have outnumbered supporters.