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Nebraska Legislature Election 2014
JTH:
--- Quote from: FarmerRick on October 14, 2014, 12:44:04 PM ---From here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Real-Ron-Nolte/332587186911427
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I'm thinking that I'd prefer to use a reference that wasn't obviously created to cause problems for Nolte. Not saying it is wrong, just that it obviously has a bias, and thus, is not necessarily reliable.
FarmerRick:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on October 14, 2014, 12:57:27 PM ---I'm thinking that I'd prefer to use a reference that wasn't obviously created to cause problems for Nolte. Not saying it is wrong, just that it obviously has a bias, and thus, is not necessarily reliable.
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Agreed, just putting it out there.
AAllen:
--- Quote from: jthhapkido on October 14, 2014, 12:26:02 PM ---Do we know why Nolte got an F?
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I wish I could say with any authority as to why he received an F, or for that matter why they upgraded to a D in the General Election. The NRA does not give any reasons as to why they give the grades and they do not share any information from their surveys. The only thing I can say is that if they gave a grade he had to do a survey, also from experience I know some candidates have been able to have conversations with the NRA after getting a low grade and get that grade raised. Can't say that happened here because the NRA does not share information.
I have had three interaction with Ron Nolte one electronic where the information shared could have been from anyone (not our survey, he did not respond), it was polite and business like but offered no information about who Ron is. One on the telephone which again was polite but very lacking in substance, and I approached him and some supporters in person at an event where I was met less than friendly. I know a lot of people especially in the Cass County area have had dealings with him for a long time and consider him to be a friend, after the interactions I have had I could not say the same.
Yes, Ron's primary support, and he has received lots of it, has been from the Dems with Dick Holland (no friend of gun owners) and Frederick Simon (Simon Properties) giving large amounts of finances. Edit to add because seen other conversation while I was typing, I base my position here from info w/ accountability and disclosure. Personally this has very little to do with my position on a candidate because all these people that give do so because they feel candidate A is more likely to agree with them than Candidate B, but if he is more likely to agree with the NEA (not saying that is always bad) than me will he side with them on gun issues where they oppose what we try to do?
Something that for me has been a major consideration in who to endorse/support this year has been who (by ideological position not name) they would support to the Committee on Committee's and the Executive Committee. These two committees control the odds of our bills seeing the floor. It would be nice to have a Judiciary Committee that agreed with us more than not, but at least a fair hearing where we didn't know before the hearing started the majority would be against us would be nice. The Executive Committee is who assigns bills to committee's, bills like LB857 should have gone to the Government and Military affairs committee where it would have made it to the floor for debate rather than Ashford not bringing the bill up for a vote in Executive Committee until the session was over. For several years we have been learning how these things happen and work in the legislature, now we have a strong enough handle on it that we are working to have a positive effect.
Bill is not perfect on that we would agree, but there is not a stronger supporter of our Second Amendment rights in the Legislature than he is. He has made himself to be a lightning rod for criticism, that is part of the strategy he is using much like Ernie Chambers does. Will he be able to be effective doing it, to some degree that is yet to be seen there has been some successes as well as some failures.
AAllen:
Oh one other item I did not address, Ron is a Republican and it has been a hot issue amongst the County Republican parties on supporting one candidate (Bill or Ron) over the other. In the mean time the County Democrat parties have decided to back/endorse Ron. To my knowledge neither candidate has asked the State Party to endorse them and I have not seen any endorsement there for either.
JTH:
Thanks for the additional info, AA. I do appreciate you taking the time to write all that!
Yeah, it is a bad sign if Dems (as a group) all throw support behind a Republican---because it means they dislike the other guy more, and that's normally a GOOD sign (at least in much of this state) especially on rights issues.
And yes indeed, it sure would be nice to have the Judiciary committee actually supporting rights, instead of attempting to limit them.
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