The knives are out for Tim Donnelly, check out this hit piece by David Siders:
BURLINGAME – Tim Donnelly, who has made gun rights a centerpiece of his campaign for governor, has a complicated history with firearms.
The Legislature’s most outspoken Second Amendment advocate, he pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors after carrying a loaded gun into Ontario International Airport in 2012, and he acknowledged recently that the gun was not registered in his name.
As he’s traveled the state in recent months, he has handled and fired guns at campaign events, raising questions about whether he was complying with the terms of his probation.
He has also experienced tragedy, the death of a family member following a gun-related arrest. His brother Paul E. Donnelly hanged himself in a Laurens County, S.C., jail in 2000 after he was arrested on charges that included assault with intent to kill, according to records reviewed by The Bee.
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Last month, Donnelly’s main Republican opponent, Neel Kashkari, told an audience in Sacramento that he owns four guns and supports gun rights but is “not running on an agenda of the Second Amendment.”
“If you’re a single issue voter, and you just want someone to give you a full capacity assault rifle magazine, God bless you, you can go vote for somebody else,” Kashkari said. “I’m not your guy.”
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Kashkari said after the event that he owns two 9mm Glock 17 pistols, one Weatherby rifle and one shotgun, a Remington 870 Express. His campaign subsequently provided receipts for those weapons to The Bee.
Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2014/03/tim-donnellys-gun-history-marked-by-controversy-tragedy.html#storylink=cpy
Isn’t it interesting that the Sacramento Bee isn’t attacking anyone in Kashkari’s family? Of course, RINO Kashkari is their man, he even gave them receipts for the weapons he owns while Donnely doesn’t even believe in gun registration.
Last month, Donnelly said in a prepared statement to The Bee that he does not trust the government to protect his rights, saying government agencies “repeatedly abuse their power by spying on Americans and by … trying to silence citizens through intimidation.”
Donnelly said, “These abuses are modern-day tyranny, and I will stand against tyranny at every turn. Like many Americans, I decline to say how many guns I have. It’s none of the government’s business!”