Candidate: NRA puts kids in the crosshairs
Children shown as targets in ad for Jeff Greene
Democratic candidate for governor Jeff Greene’s latest campaign mailer has school children in the crosshairs of the National Rifle Association.
The ad shows childrenshaped targets in a school hallway. The targets feature the NRA’s emblem and the words “AR target practice.”
“As a father, I won’t stand by while the NRA turns our kids into targets,” the campaign mailer quotes Greene as saying.
Candidates in the Democratic field for governor have touted their opposition to the NRA, tapping into student activism that formed after the Parkland shooting that killed 17 students and staff.
Greene, a Palm Beach businessman who entered the race late, has vowed to spend millions of his own money on his bid for governor.
Other candidates in the Democratic field — Andrew Gillum, Gwen Graham and Philip Levine — have bragged about the F grades they received from the NRA. Chris King, a Winter Park businessman, said he tossed the NRA’s candidate questionnaire in the trash.
The NRA’s Florida lobbyist
Marion Hammer issued a statement condemning Greene’s mailer.
“As a mother, grandmother and a proud NRA member for decades, I find his mailer repulsive,” she said. “It is clear that Jeff Greene is bankrupt of ideas,
and he has to resort to these dumb ideas to try and get attention for himself and his campaign. When people can’t win on fact, they have to resort to cheap stunts like this.”
The leading Republican candidates for governor have both earned stellar marks from the NRA. Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam received an Aplus,
while U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis scored an A.
The NRA has not issued an endorsement in the race, but Hammer said Putnam received a higher grade because of his longer track record of supporting the Second Amendment.