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NFOA-PAF looks at the 2014 election

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AAllen:
I think we did real well yesterday, 11 of our 15 endorsed candidates won (compare the NSEA who spent a quarter million and got about 4 of 23), 7 seats are upgrades for us and the only real downgrade is that we no longer have Senator Christiansen (and there is nothing saying Dan Hughes won't fill in nicely, just that there are big shoes to fill). 

In Congressional District 2, whose caucus has so much of an effect on the Legislature's leadership, we really picked up all but one seat. Yes there are a couple of seats that are squishy but because of where those people stand on other issues I think they will support good changes to committees and leadership.  Is that a large enough change in Congressional District 2 for the changes to happen?

I think there will be some hope for a good session the next two years, and with things to build on for the PAF we will hopefully continue to gain momentum.

Other races that will effect us; Governor as far as firearms are concerned Pete Rickets will very much like Governor Heinemann.  Economic development and taxes are going to be his concerns, Second Amendment issues will not be for front but when we have the votes to pass things he will sign the bills.  Attorney General I really believe that Doug Peterson will follow along with the direction Jon Brunning had things going, don't see any reason to believe there would be a change for us here. 

Federal races in Nebraska, Ben Sasse will be much like Johanns where we should be able to have his vote when needed but he would not be putting up 2A legislation. 

Congressional Districts 1 and 3 remain the same and Brad Ashford has beaten NFOA member Lee Terry for District 2.  While we all know Brad's history on guns for at least the first couple of years he should not be able to hurt us.  He will be a freshman Congressman from a minority party that will quickly learn he must fall in line with what Nancy Pelosi wants, he will be a junior member of one of the lowest committees and basically delegated to irrelevance.  But since this becomes a major push for more "Liberty Minded" possible challengers for 2016 it may be a place that the PAF will have an opportunity to be involved in the vetting process without needing to be active in a federal race.  All in ways that will help make the NFOA-PAF stronger.

A couple of National issues, yes there was lots of rejection of anti gun Senators, Governors etc. But in Washington I-594 passed which really hurts, word is that there will already be similar ballot initiatives in at least 4 more states in 2016. 

In Arkansas Amendment 3 passed which had 2 basic parts first the second part; saying new federal laws are unenforceable, we have had that discussion several times and I think everyone knows this will carry no weight in the Federal Courts.  Then the major item being sold: declares the right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right (they already had a right to keep and bear arms in their constitution), and that courts must apply Strict Scrutiny when deciding cases involving the right to keep and bear arms.  This one concerns me because it is sounding like there are people that are going to try to push for this here, again in Federal Courts the State Constitution telling them to apply a certain level of scrutiny to a case is most likely going to be worthless, and I don't see any court in Nebraska even considering that language to mean anything, would love Dick Clark (and some of our other lawyers) to weigh in on this issue.

Also the work we did and what we were able to accomplish this year has gotten us some attention.  We already have a few folks wanting to help us grow the PAF and discussing the use of their resources to do that.

Winning Candidates we endorsed: Bill Kintner (LD2), Tommy L. Garrett(LD3), Joni Craighead(LD6), Jim Smith(LD14), Lydia Brasch(LD16), Brett Lindstrom(LD18), John S. McCollister(LD20), Roy Baker(LD30), Laura Ebke(LD32), Tyson Rope Larson(LD40), John P. Stinner Sr.(LD48)

RobertH:
thanks for the update Andy!

Congrats to the winners!

NE Bull:
Again, Thanx to Andy and the PAF for the work done. It's awesome what ya'll accomplished with so little.
We must work to build the PAF visually and the checkbook before 2016.

jFader:
Yes!  I would say we are looking at a much friendlier legislature.  I hope that enough seats have swung & that the incoming group of senators is willing to stand up to ernie...

One of the candidates that received support from the NFOA PAF was Laura Ebke & as of now she only won by 226 votes!

In my district Lathrop was replaced by Merv Riepe & in Ashfords old district we narrowly escaped another lawyer, last name Lathrop!

It would have been hard to do better short of having more Pro-Rights candidates!

Great Job to everyone involved!

Dan W:

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