Sept. 21, 2010
Gun Rights Organization Issues Candidate Endorsements
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Charleston, WV (HNN) – The West Virginia Citizens Defense League, the state’s largest active grassroots gun rights organization , issued the following endorsements for the House of Delegates in the November 2, 2010 general election.
The WVCDL has indorsed Kevin Craig (D), Carol Miller ( R) and Douglas Franklin ( R) in District 15. Kelli Sobonya (R ) and T-Anne See ( R) are endorsed for District 16.
As part of its endorsement process, WVCDL considered incumbent legislators’ voting records and candidates’ responses to the WVCDL 2020 Legislative Candidate Survey. WVCDL publishes its candidate survey and all responses on its web site: www.wvcdl.org.
WVCDL Treasurer, Legislative Director, and General Counsel Jim Mullins, a Beckley-based attorney, said that only candidates who answered the WVCDL 2010 Legislative Candidate Survey are eligible for consideration. “Due to the lack of recorded votes in the Legislature on most of the issues important to WVCDL’s members, we must resort to a somewhat lengthy candidate survey to find where most legislators and candidates really stand on gun rights issues,” Mullins said.
He added: “Most candidates for the Legislature claim to support an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. However, WVCDL tests candidates’ positions on the specific issues WVCDL is advocating or monitoring. Only candidates who have demonstrated a genuine commitment to an individual’s right to keep and bear arms receive WVCDL’s endorsement.”
WVCDL is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, all-volunteer, grassroots organization of concerned West Virginians who support our individual right to keep and bear arms for defense of self, family, home and state, and for lawful hunting and recreational use, as protected by the state constitution and the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Since its inception in 2007, WVCDL has played a leading role in expanding more than tenfold the number of states with which West Virginia has concealed handgun license reciprocity and defeating legislation to expand areas where carrying firearms is prohibited, expand the categories of individuals prohibited from possessing firearms, and increase concealed handgun license fees.
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Gun Rights Organization Issues Candidate Endorsements
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Charleston, WV (HNN) – The West Virginia Citizens Defense League, the state’s largest active grassroots gun rights organization , issued the following endorsements for the House of Delegates in the November 2, 2010 general election.
The WVCDL has indorsed Kevin Craig (D), Carol Miller ( R) and Douglas Franklin ( R) in District 15. Kelli Sobonya (R ) and T-Anne See ( R) are endorsed for District 16.
As part of its endorsement process, WVCDL considered incumbent legislators’ voting records and candidates’ responses to the WVCDL 2020 Legislative Candidate Survey. WVCDL publishes its candidate survey and all responses on its web site: www.wvcdl.org.
WVCDL Treasurer, Legislative Director, and General Counsel Jim Mullins, a Beckley-based attorney, said that only candidates who answered the WVCDL 2010 Legislative Candidate Survey are eligible for consideration. “Due to the lack of recorded votes in the Legislature on most of the issues important to WVCDL’s members, we must resort to a somewhat lengthy candidate survey to find where most legislators and candidates really stand on gun rights issues,” Mullins said.
He added: “Most candidates for the Legislature claim to support an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. However, WVCDL tests candidates’ positions on the specific issues WVCDL is advocating or monitoring. Only candidates who have demonstrated a genuine commitment to an individual’s right to keep and bear arms receive WVCDL’s endorsement.”
WVCDL is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, all-volunteer, grassroots organization of concerned West Virginians who support our individual right to keep and bear arms for defense of self, family, home and state, and for lawful hunting and recreational use, as protected by the state constitution and the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Since its inception in 2007, WVCDL has played a leading role in expanding more than tenfold the number of states with which West Virginia has concealed handgun license reciprocity and defeating legislation to expand areas where carrying firearms is prohibited, expand the categories of individuals prohibited from possessing firearms, and increase concealed handgun license fees.
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