Who is your legislator listening to on gun policy?

[teko]

Literally as soon as last night's second segment aired, people were asking after the chart Rachel showed comparing legislator NRA ratings with constituent polling on background checks for gun purchases. Last night was actually a bit of a scoop for TRMS on that item and I couldn't find any public links to share after the show. Now that it has appeared in several newspapers, I also find the direct links.

Just to recap: Mayors Against Illegal Guns did a heap of local polling --21 statewide polls, 41 congressional districts -- to gauge attitudes about gun issues like background checks. Then they looked up the NRA ratings for senators and representatives in the congressional districts they polled. (It takes a membership to see the NRA grades but the New York Times recently published them in a map.) The poll results show overwhelming support for background checks for gun purchases, but the NRA opposes background checks. So the idea is that if a member of Congress has a good NRA grade, their stance is more aligned with the NRA than their own constituents.

The full set of results is available as a pdf and was meant for use as a full-page newspaper ad. If you were hoping for a more shareable image file, they have this tiny-but-still-readable jpg version. They've also got all of the results broken down by the states and districts they polled.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/03/07/17227989-who-is-your-legislator-listening-to-on-gun-policy?lite

to view the chart.

[Vance2335]

Can't really take anything serious that is show by Maddow. She gets her orders from the White House.

[R Glass]

I looked up “Mayors Against Illegal Guns”. La had a total of 4 Mayors from the entire State that are members (I think Texas had 5) All of them Democrats and one was the Mayor of Patterson which has population of about 6,5000. I thought it looked “Fishy”.

[R Glass]

I’m confused it says “Polling data released today by Mayors Against Illegal Guns  shows that likely voters in Louisiana overwhelmingly support expanding the gun background check system to include all gun buyers.

So this was a poll by Mayors Against Illegal Guns that claims 85% of Louisiana Residents supports this? Sounds Biased to me.


You can never predict what Landrieu is going to do. I doubt she will support a Gun Bill that Bans anything but if they can sweeten the pot enough, who knows? I may not agree with everything she does but she knows how to play the game. If you don’t read this entire post at least read “The Health Care” part. Beck and Rush were furious. I vote for her every time which p!sses my wife off.

By national standards, Landrieu is among the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. Senate,[10] and is a member of the New Democrat Coalition.
Landrieu supports eliminating the estate tax permanently, and voted for the tax cut passed in 2001. On November 17, 2005, she was one of only four Democrats to vote against repealing the portions of the tax cuts passed in 2001 and 2003 that more Democrats have charged unfairly benefit the wealthy. She voted for the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 and the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. In 2004, Landrieu was one of only six Democrats to vote against renewing the ban on semi-automatic firearms. She has also been one of the few Democrats to support drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Landrieu voted for the confirmation of Chief Justice John Roberts in 2005, but in 2006, she opposed Samuel Alito, though she did vote in favor of cloture to send the nomination to an up-or-down vote.
Subsequent to the 2006 midterm election, in which the Democratic Party gained control of both houses of Congress, Landrieu announced (along with Republican Olympia Snowe of Maine) the formation of the "Common Ground Coalition", a group of moderate senators of both parties, with the goal of finding bipartisan consensus on legislative matters.[8]
On December 18, 2010, Landrieu voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.[11][12]
On March 1, 2012, Landrieu voted against a measure that would have repealed a birth control mandate in the health care bill, despite her Roman Catholic beliefs.[13]

Health care
Landrieu was opposed to the public health insurance option in the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009[14] (HR 3200) until the bill was rewritten to send a $300,000,000 payment to Medicaid for her home state.[15] When two pages were added to the bill to place $300 million in Louisiana's Medicaid system, she changed her web page in order to reflect her support of the program.[16] Conservative figures referred to the deal as the "Louisiana Purchase".[17] As a result, prominent conservative figures Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh called her a "high-priced prostitute".[18]
On November 21, 2009, Landrieu voted with fifty-nine other Senators to bring the health care bill up for debate. On December 8, 2009, she voted against the Nelson-Hatch-Casey amendment which proposed to ban federal funding for private plans that covered elective abortions but allowed individuals to purchase separate individual riders that would cover abortions.[17]


Prior to a concession of $300 million being added to the bill, Landrieu responded to a question on popular support of the public option, and asserted that the option has popular support because “when people hear ‘public option’ they hear ‘free health care.’ Everybody wants free health care. Everybody wants health care they don’t have to pay for.”[19][20]
After Senator Harry Reid added the concession to the bill which sent $300 million to Medicaid recipients in Louisiana, she described the bill as 'imperfect, but taking many steps to improve our broken health care system.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Landrieu