And apparently thats not all they are going to do!
While the students who survived the school shooting in Parkland, Florida work tirelessly to organize marches and walk-outs protesting gun violence in America, another organization is joining them in the fight. A political action committee called Mad Dog PAC bought billboards attacking the NRA by calling the gun lobbying group a “terrorist organization.”
Mad Dog, according to the PAC’s website, “solicits contributions from concerned citizens to fund billboards against Treasonweasel House GOP candidates across the country.” Some of the politicians they’ve recently targeted include Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.).
According to the Pensacola News Journal, the organization was registered as a PAC in December 2017 by Claude Taylor, a former White House staffer under Bill Clinton. Launching its billboard campaign in January, the group has also funded signs that demand President Trump be impeached, and are now orchestrating an anti-NRA campaign.
One billboard was recently erected along North W Street in Pensacola, Florida. “The NRA is a terrorist organization,” the sign reads. According to Fox & Friends, Mad Dog PAC has said that two more anti-NRA signs have been ordered. The next billboard will appear in Pittsburgh, according to Taylor, and a third will be erected in another location in Pennsylvania. (Bustle has reached out to the NRA about Mad Dog’s allegation that it is a “terrorist” group.)
First one up in Pensacola, Florida. Second one going up in Pittsburgh. Third one going up in another part of PA to be determined. Please chip in at https://t.co/TJFoYRw0A2 thanks all. pic.twitter.com/dRpO0RrDso
— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) March 2, 2018
Currently, the PAC is especially focused on calling out House Republicans before the Nov. 6, 2018 midterm elections, in order to flip the House, taking control away from the GOP. Taylor believes this would make it easier for Democrats to pass sensible gun legislation.
“With the GOP majority in the House and in the Senate, the NRA makes impossible any meaningful, common-sense gun reform,” Taylor told the Pensacola News Journal. “That includes background checks and assault weapon bans.”
There have been other similar anti-NRA billboard campaigns, including one by activist group Avaaz, inspired by the film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. On signs plastered to three trucks, the organization called out Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for his inaction following the mass shooting. “Slaughtered in school … And still no gun control? … How come, Marco Rubio?” the signs read.
Since Mad Dog’s anti-NRA billboard went up, a lot of right-wing news sites, like Breitbart and the Blaze, have jumped on the fact that the organization funding the signs is ran by someone who used to work for the Clintons. The Blaze even referred to the new billboard’s message as a…