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    Default Florida's state lawmakers haven't gotten a dime from the NRA since 2005

    http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/pol...409-story.html

    In Florida, a state with a reputation for gun-friendliness, the National Rifle Association hasn’t given money to any state candidate for 13 years.

    A review of campaign finance records for the NRA Political Victory Fund, the gun-rights group’s political arm in Florida, shows it donated regularly to candidates from 1996 until 2002, then just a handful over the next three years. The last two candidates to get money from the NRA — $500 each in 2005 — were Florida House candidate Marti Coley and Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson.

    After that, the NRA still regularly donated $10,000 once or twice a year to the Republican Party of Florida and campaign committees tied to maintaining House and Senate majorities for Republicans. But after 2010, those checks stopped as well.

    As the campaign contributions fizzled out, spending on mailers and ads skyrocketed, up to a high of about $1.6 million for television, radio, Internet and mail ads independent of any political campaign in just the five weeks prior to the 2014 midterm and governor elections. Since then, the numbers have been less stratospheric — about $400,000 in 2016.
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    Default Re: Florida's state lawmakers haven't gotten a dime from the NRA since 2005

    Perhaps the NRA should focus on representation of firearms owners and not on mass mailings seeking more money, selling insurance, etc.

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    Default Re: Florida's state lawmakers haven't gotten a dime from the NRA since 2005

    I think the mass mailing or at least the ads were targeting enemies. It sounds to me like they decided money was better spent targeting those working against us than throwing money at solid allies. Makes sense to me.
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