Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 21:52:17 -0700
From: rineer@QUIXNET.NET (Kenneth Rineer)
Subject: F.A.C.T. - McCain FACTS
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu


Firearms Action Committee of Tucson
P.O. Box 27321
Tucson, Arizona 85726
(520) 740-9387

June 29, 2001


[Please do not forget the "Complain to McCain" Rallys tomorrow in Tempe,
Tucson and Yuma! starting at 10 A.M.]


The following may be used, retransmitted, copied, etc. as long as
appropriate credit is given to the Firearms Action Committee of Tucson for
their effort in putting together the following list of "McCain FACTS"

McCain FACTS


*   "At the same time, constitutional rights must not be taken away without
proper notice and a meaningful opportunity to be heard."  This statement was
made by Senator McCain in a letter to a constituent.

Excuse me Senator, but constitutionally guaranteed rights are NOT
NEGOTIABLE!

*   Since 1995, Senator McCain has only voted with gun owners 42% of the
time, earning him a C  rating from Gun Owners of America, a ntional right
to self defense advocacy organization.

*   Senator McCain introduced anti-gun show bill, S.890, aligning himself
with anti-self defense Democrats.  This bill goes as far as to require gun
show promoters to make all those who attend the show to sign a statement
that they have been made aware of the requirement that a government mandated
background check is necessary to transfer a firearm, even if it is your gun
and it's a private transaction!

*   Senator McCain introduced and voted for his "Inumbent
Protection/Anti-free Speech Act," S.27, commonly referred to as campaign
finance reform.  This bill limits the free speech of organizations such as
F.A.C.T. to inform its membership where a politician running for office
stands on their right to self-defense sixty (60) days prior to election day.
He has admitted there are provisions in his bill which are unconstitutional
and will more than likely be challenged in court.  Then why are they in your
bill Senator McCain?  What's the Constitution among friends?

*   Senator McCain starred in an anti-self defense commercial paid for by
Americans for Gun Safety and financed by Andrew McKelvey (Monster.com).
McKelvey was a member of the board of Handgun Control, Inc..  He left HCI
because he felt they had become ineffective and weren't doing enough to
forward the anti- gun agenda.

Sean Hammond, spokesman of Citizens of Arizona to Prevent Gun Violence,
which is an affiliated group of Americans for Gun Safety, stated in a letter
to the editor of a Tucson newspaper that the 2nd Amendment to the United
States Constitution, "has nothing to do whatsoever with personal use of
firearms."  CAP Gun Violence has called for things such as mandatory trigger
locks, mandatory waiting periods, limitations on the number of firearms one
may buy in a month, etc.

*   In a question referencing his starring in this anti-self defense
commercial, Senator McCain stated, "I do believe my view has evolved."  Why
has McCain's view on guns changed?  Because bad people committed bad crimes
with guns.  What about law abiding Citizens Senator?

*   In a May 1999 interview by Jake Tapper of Salon News, Senator McCain
said when asked what he would do if he were president in the aftermath of
the Columbine shootings, "It's obvious that at a gun show, people should be
subject to background checks.  I don't get it why in stores you get a
background check, but you go three blocks down, there's no background
check."

The Senator should not speak on what he obviously knows so little about.
Excuse me Senator, but bacground checks ARE conducted at gun shows!

*   When the U.S. Forest Service shut down the Tucson Rod and Gun Club, the
club asked for Senator McCain's help.  Did they get it?  No.  In fact, when
Ken Rineer, President of the Firearms Action Committee of Tucson asked
Senator McCain on the John C. Scott Show why he refused to help the shooters
of Tucson and the Tucson Rod and Gun Club, he "blew up" and threw his
headsets off.  Obviously, the Senator did not answer the question.  Why has
he not helped?

*   SenatorMcCain came down hard on tobacco companies by voting to advance
a bill adding $1.10 per pack tax to a pack of cigarettes.  Yet when similar
bills come up on alcohol, the Senator passes and doesn't vote.  I wonder if
this inconsistency has anything to do with his intimate relationship with a
brewery?

*   Those who know Senator McCain know about the difficulty he has
controlling his temper.  Is a Senator who has been described as having a
"volcanic temper and who often insults people during his fits of rage, fit
to govern?

*   As some already found out, don't ever cross Senator McCain.  If you do,
you could have hell to pay.  An example of the "wrath of McCain" is when
Senator McCain refused to talk to anybody from the Arizona Republic for a
year because they published an editorial about a scandal involving his wife
Cindy.  The scandal?   Cindy stole painkillers from a charity she founded.

Another example of Senator McCain's mean-spiritedness is when the Senator
had it out with then MaricopaCounty Superintendent of Schools, Sandra
Dowling, at a cocktail party some years ago.  McCain told Dowling that she,
"was going to suffer the political wrath," if she didn't drop her support
for Barbara Barrett.  Barrett was running for the GOP nomination for
Governor against Fife Symington.

*   In another article by Jake Tapper of Salon News, Tapper discusses the
media's "love affair" with Senator McCain and the Senator's "love affair"
with the media.  Tapper said, "Media is important to John McCain as heis to
us.  He loves the limelight, for one, but more importantly, its an important
element of his battle plan as he tries to emerge as a serious contender for
the GOP nomination."

So, is John McCain merely pandering to the media to get what he wants?
Think about this for a moment, if John McCain is so loved by the mainstream
media, and we are at odds with the mainstream media on most issues, should
we embrace Senator McCain as they have or should we be very cautious of him?
After all, most of what the mainsream media is for, I'm against.

*   During his campaign for president, Senator McCain promised to support
tax cuts for working Americans at a New Hampshire speech.  He voted against
President Bush's tax cut plan.  Did he lie in New Hampshire or did he just
want to "get even" with President Bush?

*   Last but not least, remember the "Keating Five?"  Old news maybe, but
still news.

Sincerely,

Ken Rineer
President, FACT