Parkland parents scale back efforts against NRA for midterms

In May, Parkland parents started a political action committee opposing politicians who are funded by the National Rifle Association.

But that PAC, Families vs. Assault Rifles, is scaling back its 2018 midterm election plans in the wake of disappointing fundraising totals, according to a report by McClatchy.

The news syndicate reports that the PAC launched by Jeffrey Kasky and Sergio Rozenblat has raised $230,000, far less than its goal of $10 million.

“We are going to go up against NRA candidates in every meaningful race in the country,” Kasky told the Sun Sentinel when the PAC was created in May, three months after 17 people were killed in the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Kasky is the father of Stoneman Douglas student activist Cameron Kasky, a founder of the March for Our Lives movement.

Matt Gohd, the California-based executive director of Families vs. Assault Rifles said in May that the PAC planned to hire professional staff to its team as researchers.

“We’re going to take this on in a big way,” he said at the time.

But Gohd tells McClatchy that Families vs. Assault Rifles is now considering directing its efforts toward the 2020 presidential election cycle. “None of us had a grasp of how difficult this would be,” he said. “We needed more resources, more people.”