BELLEVUE, WA – The Democratic National Committee can say whatever they want about calling for a new election which could replace gun ban activist David Hogg as vice chair, but the fact remains he quickly became a pain in the political neck and everybody knows it, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
Hogg has been in office less than six months and he has already started a civil war within the party which veteran strategist James Carville was smart enough to take out of the public light. Hogg announced plans to spend some $20 million to primary older Democrat incumbents in safe congressional districts, in an effort to attract younger activists back to the party.
“Democrats have obviously discovered something about Hogg the Second Amendment community knew almost immediately several years ago,” said CCRKBA Managing Director Andrew Gottlieb. “He’s a self-aggrandizing attention grabber, who wants to play power broker. His agenda is about him, not the party he pretends to serve, or the lives lost to armed criminals and crazy people who ignore existing gun laws and will get around any new laws he demands.
“Hogg has been a mouthpiece for the gun prohibition movement,” Gottlieb observed, “which profits off of gun-related violence. The more serious the mayhem, the more sensational headlines and thus the more money they can raise by promising an end to violence by restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens. It’s about like promising to stop a blizzard by banning snow plows.”
While Hogg fancies himself as a party reformer, his activities so far suggest he’s a party crasher with the mindset of a grifter, CCRKBA said. No doubt Democrats agree with his gun ban philosophy, but they simply can’t stand his juvenile political behavior, and using procedural concerns is a flimsy sham effort to avoid admitting they have grown weary of his grandstanding.
“Clearly,” Gottlieb said, “Hogg’s my-way-or-the-highway approach and his willingness to throw his elders under the nearest bus has not gone over well with party leaders. With him, it’s ‘all about Hogg,’ so he has quickly worn out whatever welcome he may have had. He forgets that change is guided by big men, not big mouths.”