{"id":5829,"date":"2010-08-28T01:58:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T06:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=5829"},"modified":"2010-08-28T01:59:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T06:59:06","slug":"statement-from-nra-pvf-chairman-chris-w-cox-on-the-2010-nevada-u-s-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/statement-from-nra-pvf-chairman-chris-w-cox-on-the-2010-nevada-u-s-senate-race\/5829\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement From NRA-PVF Chairman Chris W. Cox On The 2010 Nevada U.S. Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/vote-freedom-first.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5830\" title=\"vote-freedom-first\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/vote-freedom-first.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>In the coming days and weeks, the NRA Political Victory  Fund (NRA-PVF) will be announcing endorsements and candidate ratings in  hundreds of federal races, as well as thousands of state legislative  races. Unless these announcements are required by the timing of primary  or special elections, the NRA-PVF generally does not issue endorsements  while important legislative business is pending. The NRA-PVF also  operates under a long-standing policy that gives preference to incumbent  candidates who have voted with the NRA on key issues, which is  explained in more detail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/Issues\/Articles\/Read.aspx?id=430&amp;issue=047\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate recently considered a number of issues important to  NRA members, including the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the Supreme  Court. Out of respect for the confirmation process, the NRA did not  announce its position on Ms. Kagan&#8217;s confirmation until the conclusion  of her testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee. Her evasive  testimony exacerbated grave concerns we had about her long-standing  hostility towards the Second Amendment. As a result, the NRA strongly  opposed her confirmation and made it clear at the time that we would be  scoring this important vote.<\/p>\n<p>The vote on Elena Kagan&#8217;s confirmation to the Court, along with  the previous year&#8217;s confirmation vote on Sonia Sotomayor, are critical  for the future of the Second Amendment. After careful consideration, the  NRA-PVF announced today that it will not be endorsing Senate Majority  Leader Harry Reid for re-election in the 2010 U.S. Senate race in  Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>NRA members and other interested parties are encouraged to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrapvf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.NRAPVF.org<\/a> for more information as  Election Day draws near.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the coming days and weeks, the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) will be announcing endorsements and candidate ratings in hundreds of federal races, as well as thousands of state legislative races. Unless these announcements are required by the timing of primary or special elections, the NRA-PVF generally does not issue endorsements while important legislative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":5830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1014,855,18,1013],"class_list":["post-5829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-second-amendment","tag-endorsement","tag-harry-reid","tag-nra","tag-nra-pvf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}