Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, attorneys for the city and other stakeholders will brief the media on McDonald v. Chicago in advance of oral arguments before the Supreme Court early next month. They will be joined by others with a direct stake in the outcome of the case: mayors, prosecutors, law enforcement officials, medical professionals and the families of gun violence victims. [More]Why how inclusive. And gun rights proponents? We have no direct stake in this. We're not stakeholders.
I'd like to hold the stake all right, you damned vampires. Along with a mallet in my other hand.
[Via HZ]
The author of this press release is "Legal Community Against Violence".
ReplyDeleteContacts at the bottom include cboesel@joycefdn.org -- that would be that ever-vigilant defender of citizen sovereignty, the Joyce Foundation, right?
The other contact is mglaze@rabengroup.com. The Raben Group "combines 'inside the Beltway' experience, insight and access with outside-the-box thinking for clients in the corporate, public and governmental sectors." They appear to be a general purpose lobbying group, with clients ranging from the, yes, Mayors Against Illegal Guns Action Fund, to the ACLU, to General Electric, Time Warner Cable, and United Auto Workers.
Ooh, look, they do astroturfing: "Whether you need an issue campaign, a coalition or a marketing strategy, a creative grassroots or grasstops campaign, political research and counsel or all of these, The Raben Group’s professionals provide innovative, outside-the-box counsel to achieve your goals."
Dammit, that was today! And they had an open call-in line.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I just got informed about it minutes before I posted it.
ReplyDeleteOK, last bit, then I'm going away.
ReplyDeleteLCAV's website is probably worth poking around in.
Here's their page on The Second Amendment;
and here's their page on Heller.
I'd say that at a glance, the most interesting thing is that these two pages grant insight on the strategies that will be used to undermine the Second Amendment to the point where it's meaningless.
I hold a stake, but sadly, I have to work for a living at 9:30 a.m. on a weekday.
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