Georgia Gov. Kemp took $50,000 in donations from CEO of maker of Uvalde shooter's gun

[Nevilledog]

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Max Flugrath
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NEW: Gov. Brian Kemp took $50,000 from the Uvalde AR-15 manufacturer, including $25,000 just before Kemp signed a law weakening Georgia’s gun laws.

americanindependent.com
Georgia Gov. Kemp took $50,000 in donations from CEO of maker of Uvalde shooter's gun
Marty Daniel's donations to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp include $25,000 just before Kemp signed a bill weakening gun laws in the state.
8:32 AM · Jun 14, 2022

https://americanindependent.com/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-senate-herschel-walker-daniel-defense-uvalde-rifles-las-vegas-abrams-warnock/

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from the CEO of Daniel Defense, a gun manufacturing company that made the rifle used by the shooter in the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24.

Kemp has taken $50,200 from the Georgia-based company's founder and CEO, Marty Daniel, so far in his two bids for governor, in 2018 and 2022, according to campaign finance records accessed by the American Independent Foundation. Half of that, or $25,000, was a single donation to Kemp's Georgians First Leadership Committee, a political action committee he formed immediately after signing a law a year ago that permits some state legislative leaders to receive unlimited campaign donations at any time during an election cycle.

That $25,000 contribution came in on March 17, according to campaign disclosure reports, less than a month before Kemp signed a permitless carry law that allows Georgians to carry firearms without a license or a background check. A poll conducted for the Atlanta Journal Constitution in January by the University of Georgia's School of Public and International Affairs found that permitless carry is widely unpopular in the state, with 70% of registered voters opposed to it and 28% in favor.

Federal Election Commission records show that Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker has taken $5,800 from Daniel for his 2022 bid against incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

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[kimbutgar]

1. Stacey will be bringing that up all the time in her race to oust Brian

And Warnock should do the same against Walker.

[Peregrine Took]

5. Just thinking the same thing!!! n/t

[gratuitous]

2. Should be easy enough to make the case for blood money

Just juxtapose some of Daniel Defense's own ads against the havoc wrought by their products, and the ease with which someone can get his vengeful hands on a semi-automatic rifle from Daniel. Let Kemp and Walker try to tap-dance away from the easily foreseeable consequences of Daniel's reckless business practices.

[Nevilledog]

4. Last Vegas shooter also used their guns.

https://qz.com/2171070/everything-we-know-about-daniel-defense-which-made-the-gun-used-in-uvalde/

[sop]

3. Marty Daniel may not have as much money to donate after his company is sued.

"Uvalde parents and school staffer start legal action against gunmaker"

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/03/1102755195/uvalde-special-ed-staffer-seeks-to-depose-gunmaker-for-a-possible-lawsuit