{"id":5085,"date":"2010-11-03T04:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/11\/03\/grnc-vs-nra-and-winner-is\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:18","slug":"grnc-vs-nra-and-winner-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=5085","title":{"rendered":"GRNC vs NRA &#8211; And the Winner Is&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18777,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/10\\\/for-north-carolina-voters.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18778,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wral.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/politics\\\/story\\\/8556651&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.wral.com\\\/news\\\/local\\\/politics\\\/story\\\/8556651&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Neither.<\/p>\n<p>In the two races where Grass Roots North Carolina and the NRA sparred over endorsements, they each won one race.<\/p>\n<p>In the 11th Congressional District, Heath Shuler won 54% of the vote or about a 20,000 vote margin. Until I have the complete precinct by precinct results, I can only speculate his win came because he took the Democrat (and hippie) stronghold of Asheville big while holding his own in the rest of the district. <\/p>\n<p>Both candidates in this race were rated A by the NRA so gun rights won&#8217;t suffer though I might not say the same for civil rights given Shuler&#8217;s votes on union card check and the DISCLOSE Act. I will also say the race was vicious with the negative ads starting almost immediately after Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>The other race where GRNC worked to defeat a candidate with the NRA&#8217;s endorsement was between NC House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman (D-Davidson Co) and the Republican challenger Rayne Brown. GRNC targeted Holliman for his refusal to push for a vote on a Castle Doctrine bill that had already passed the State Senate. It was held in the Judiciary I committee by the chair Deborah Ross (D-Wake).<\/p>\n<p>Rayne Brown won almost 58% of the vote in her successful effort to unseat Holliman. <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/for-north-carolina-voters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brown had been ranked 4 stars<\/a> in the GRNC&#8217;s 0 to 4 star ranking system. Her victory knocked off the number two Democrat in the General Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In general, this was a good election for gun owners in North Carolina. Control of the North Carolina General Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wral.com\/news\/local\/politics\/story\/8556651\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appears to have completely switched hands<\/a> from Democrat to Republican. If the close races hold up, it will be the first time in over a century that the GOP has controlled both houses of the General Assembly. I anticipate that this time the Castle Doctrine will be enacted as will changes to the NC law&nbsp;enacting a ban on off-premises possession and carry of firearms during declared states of emergency.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither. In the two races where Grass Roots North Carolina and the NRA sparred over endorsements, they each won&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,4554,26],"class_list":["post-5085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-grass-roots-north-carolina","tag-mid-term-elections","tag-nra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5906,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5085\/revisions\/5906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}