Anti-gun Senators Murphy and Favola schemed to go after NOVA

[OakRidgeStars]

VA-ALERT: FOIA: Anti-gun Senators Murphy and Favola schemed to go after NOVA Firearms!

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It turns out that anti-gun Northern Virginia State Senators Kathleen Murphy and Barbara Favola and Fairfax County Supervisor John Foust conspired to attack NOVA Firearms for purely political reasons, based on some emails that were just released because of a Freedom of Information Act request. They used the gun store being close to a school as an excuse for the attack in order to activate Foust’s voting base, fully knowing that the gun store is a legal business and had done absolutely nothing wrong when it moved to its new location. Foust knew about the move in advance and didn’t say a thing at the time. Not until he saw a political opportunity.

Favola admits in the emails that she was behind pressuring the Arlington landlord to break the NOVA Firearms lease earlier this year.

To show who we are dealing with, Favola didn’t even realize that NOVA Firearms is the store that tried to move to Arlington and is now located by the school in McLean! This shows she did no research before blocking the NOVA Firearms's move to Arlington.

The irony is that Favola chased the gun store out of Arlington when it wasn’t anywhere near a school and now she wants to chase it away again because it IS near a school! It’s near a school because of you, Senator Favola!

The truth is that NOVA Firearm will be attacked wherever they move in the area. Favola, Murphy, and Foust, through their combined stupidity, bigotry, and vitriol, have now cemented NOVA Firearms's position to stay put, when NOVA Firearms was originally willing to consider possibly moving. In short Murphy, Favola, and Foust are trying to blame NOVA Firearms for something foolish that the three of them did: politicizing the situation and villainizing NOVA Firearms.

In the email, Senator Murphy writes to Favola:

“In McLean we have a gun shop opening right near Franklin Sherman Grade School. I think we should notify parents.” [PVC: So Murphy wants to stir up a situation where there was no issue before.]

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Senator Favola responds to Murphy:

“Can we meet with some activities and small business owners nearby — I was able to help ‘stop’ a gun shop from moving to Arlington.

"Basically, we convinced the land owner that his business tenants would lose business. In other words moving a gun store to a small cluster of shops in the middle of a neighborhood was bad for business. [PVC: Here Favola is gleeful and proud that she lied to the landlord about losing business, when the opposite would have been true.]

"The argument has to be about supporting small businesses. The ‘we’ versus ‘they’ argument is now winable with the NRA.” [PVC: They want to use the guise that they are "simply concerned with supporting small businesses," when in fact all they want to do is drive gun stores away and will stoop as low as necessary to achieve that goal.]

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What Favola, Murphy, and Foust have done is despicable and an abuse of power. None of them deserve to be in government.

If reelected, I can pretty much guarantee that Favola and Murphy will put in bills to allow localities to control where gun stores can be located.

One final thing - the opposition to NOVA Firearms moving to either Arlington or McLean was not a grassroots movement at all. It was driven artificially by Favola and a few other people to LOOK like it was grassroots. The fake “grassroots” protests are a tactic that Bloomberg’s Everytown and the Demanding Moms have used before.

Reminder: Election Day is next Tuesday, November 3rd.

Here’s the article about the emails. This is a partisan write up, but the emails speak for themselves. Stay tuned, I don’t think this is going to be the end of the story:

http://bearingdrift.com/2015/10/26/foia ... ntroversy/

or

http://tinyurl.com/ow3lwcd




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[MarcSpaz]

So, let me ask you a question? Isn't this action of chasing off the store, especially by threatening the previous landlord with financial loss, criminal activity? Specifically extortion? Extortion is the practice of obtaining something through force or threats; to gain by violence or oppression.


In one dictionary I read the definition of extortion is "To draw from by force or compulsion; to wrest or wring from by physical force, by menace, duress, violence, authority, or by an illegal means.

Well, these politicians are drawing political gain and favor with their constituents, leading to them getting elected again, not by legal means, such as sponsoring a Bill that became law, but rather by using their position of authority to compel the landlord to cancel the lease to the gun store by threatening the landlord with loss of funds? I mean, this situation 100% fit the description/definition!

[WRW]

IANAL, But I think that the gain has to come from the extorted.

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[OakRidgeStars]

So, let me ask you a question? Isn't this action of chasing off the store, especially by threatening the previous landlord with financial loss, criminal activity? Specifically extortion? Extortion is the practice of obtaining something through force or threats; to gain by violence or oppression.

I agree, but these individuals are allegedly doing this for the children. Or something.

[kelu]

[dorminWS]

So, let me ask you a question? Isn't this action of chasing off the store, especially by threatening the previous landlord with financial loss, criminal activity? Specifically extortion? Extortion is the practice of obtaining something through force or threats; to gain by violence or oppression.


In one dictionary I read the definition of extortion is "To draw from by force or compulsion; to wrest or wring from by physical force, by menace, duress, violence, authority, or by an illegal means.

Well, these politicians are drawing political gain and favor with their constituents, leading to them getting elected again, not by legal means, such as sponsoring a Bill that became law, but rather by using their position of authority to compel the landlord to cancel the lease to the gun store by threatening the landlord with loss of funds? I mean, this situation 100% fit the description/definition!

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I agree the action taken by the politicians was odious, but I don't think it was extortion.
The politician was quoted as follows:

""Basically, we convinced the land owner that his business tenants would lose business. In other words moving a gun store to a small cluster of shops in the middle of a neighborhood was bad for business. [PVC: Here Favola is gleeful and proud that she lied to the landlord about losing business, when the opposite would have been true.]"

There is no threat to do anything that was illegal. There is no threat even to inflict harm by doing an LEGAL act. There is only a speculation that third parties may react to renting to a gun shop in a manner that would adversely effect the landlord's business. The landlord was left to draw his own conclusions. Maybe he made a bad decision; maybe not. There is no act nor even statement of an intent to act by the politician.

Sorry, but that ain't extortion. It is just slimy arm-twisting.