BELLEVUE, WA – Less than 24 hours after the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms issued a scathing news release condemning Everytown for Gun Safety’s June endorsement of Democrat Jay Jones, who is now under fire for suggesting a political rival should have been shot in the head along with his children, the news release about that endorsement has vanished from Everytown’s website.
“There’s been no announcement the endorsement was withdrawn,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “and not a word about whether Everytown has asked the Jones campaign to return the $200,000 contribution made to his campaign in August. All that appears to have happened is that the billionaire-backed organization is trying to hide their support of Jones from public view after we reported it in our statement Tuesday.”
Gottlieb also noted that news of the endorsement was publicized by articles in TheGunMag.com, a publication owned by CCRKBA’s sister organization, the Second Amendment Foundation, and by Ammoland News, courtesy of a report by TGM Editor Dave Workman. Both stories were widely circulated via social media.
“Once their hypocrisy was exposed,” Gottlieb said, “Everytown obviously scrambled to erase the evidence. Try the link to their news release, which was included in TGM and Ammoland reports, and you get the message ‘Page Not Found.’ Still Everytown’s embarrassing exposure is out there for all to see, including the fact that the organization, which is supported by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg and other wealthy elitists, gave Jones a big check to help buy the election for the next Virginia attorney general.”
Jones is getting support from other Democrats, who apparently don’t care that he suggested in text messages three years ago that then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, should “get two bullets to the head.”
“Once again,” Gottlieb observed, “the Democrat double-standard is being applied to the Jones controversy, and Everytown’s endorsement still hasn’t been withdrawn. It’s just been hidden from view. If these people didn’t live by the double-standard, they would have no standards at all, and now everybody knows it.”