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Jack Bone

(2,023 posts)
7. The story from Reverb Press back in 10-17
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 04:57 AM
Feb 2018

<snip>In 2015, Scott Bixby from Mic.Com took a long, hard look at the 50 U.S. Senators — one Democrat and 49 Republicans — who voted against a bill late in April of that year that would have expanded background checks for guns bought at gun shows and through online vendors. He then poured over the data from the Center for Responsive Politics and came up with some interesting findings: Senators Rand Paul (R-KY) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) hadn’t received a dime in campaign funds from the NRA directly or indirectly through PACs and other groups. But the other 48 Senators had raked in a staggering $27,205,245 — over $27 million dollars — from the NRA over the course of their careers.<snip>

It's a fb link...best I can do

https://www.facebook.com/newcenturytimes/posts/1980685288858612

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