How Much Money Did Jack Bergman Get From The Nra

(Photo: National Rifle Clan Institute for Legislative Action)

By their donors, we shall know them. That'south because political money from lobbying groups, manufacture associations and other interests naturally goes to candidates considered supportive or potentially helpful.

And then when six of the seven Republicans in Michigan's U.S. Business firm delegation receive donations from the National Rifle Association's political committee, it shows they're allies of the leading gun rights group. The lone exception is Rep. Fred Upton of St. Joseph, who has been in Congress since 1987 and early last month announced that he won't seek a 19th term.

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His delegation-mates accept shared $38,607 from the NRA'south Political Victory Fund, co-ordinate to a Federal Election Committee database examined by Deadline Detroit amid fresh attention to the association'due south opposition to gun constabulary changes.

The state's 7 Democrats in the House haven't received campaign support from the rifle clan or other firearms interests, according to a spreadsheet posted past OpenSecrets, an independent research nonprofit in Washington, D.C. It says Republicans accounted for 97% of NRA congressional entrada donations in the 2019-20 ballot wheel. That amounted to $638,035 for Republicans and $12,800 for Democrats.

Iv of this country's beneficiaries -- Reps. Jack Bergman, Bill Huizenga, John Moolenaar and Tim Walberg -- have received serial support for three to nine years. Walberg got the most -- almost $19,000. (Details beneath.)

The delegation's other recipients, Reps. Peter Meijer of Grand Rapids and Lisa McClain of Macomb County, each got $one,000 from the clan in September 2020 -- 2 months before winning office. Neither has been helped yet during 2021-22 every bit they seek a second term.

The NRA's impact on national gun legislation, and on some states' policies, is back in the spotlight afterwards Tuesday's elementary schoolhouse massacre by a Texas teen who bought an assault rifle before long after reaching 18. "Money plays a critical function in the story of NRA influence," Phonation news site posted a few years ago.

The NRA spending ultimately leads to policies that run counter to the expressed preferences of the majority of Americans. ...

Gun command advocates, meanwhile, are in the unenviable position of having the more than popular policy stance but not the funding to mobilize voters around it.

Here'due south what records show most the NRA committee's gifts to 4 multiple-term Michigan Republicans running again to keep their U.S. House seats:

► Jack Bergman of Watersmeet: $viii,450 in four donations, beginning with the biggest a calendar month after he starting time was elected -- $4,950 on Dec. nine, 2016. (He also got $500 in 2018 from the National Shooting Sports Federation.)

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► Neb Huizenga of Zeeland: $v,150, starting with a token $150 when he offset ran in 2010. Once elected, the Ottawa County congressman got $1,000 every two years -- though naught is reported however for 2021-22. (He deposited $ane,000 from the shooting sports group 4 years agone.)

► John Moolenaar of Midland:$4,107 in three contributions since 2020.

► Tim Walberg of Tipton: $18,900 since fall 2006, including $ii,500 for that twelvemonth's unsuccessful camapign and nearly $2,000 for another try in 2008. On Election Eve in 2010, the Lenawee County politician banked $4,950 from the Political Victory Fund a mean solar day earlier victory at the polls. Then he received $1,000 to $2,000 in 6 installments from 2012-21, with the latest landing four days before concluding Christmas.

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Source: https://www.deadlinedetroit.com/articles/30607/gun_money_nra_campaign_gifts_help_6_michigan_republicans_in_congress

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