Daily Update – June 2, 2022
Good morning! Happy Thursday.
After a sunny morning, the clouds are pushing in. I am stumbling around, catching a very late bus into work, making it in by 10 AM, but it’s fine I worked until 12:30 PM last night and didn’t do very good at getting started this morning.
Mostly cloudy and 67 degrees in Delmar, NY. β Calm wind. The dew point is 63 degrees. The skies will clear around 7 pm.
Day by day working through the work week. π« Always the last week of session is crazy, though this year seems particularly bad.
Voters, not NRA money, drive the resistance to gun control
In 2020, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) was the top recipient of money from members of the “gun rights” industry. According to Open Secrets, his campaign received a total of $142,653 for the 2019-2020 cycle. That put the so-called gun lobby at 33 on the list, far behind other industries, like real estate and accounting.
Health professionals alone gave roughly seven times more money to Scalise ($1,072,904) than the gun lobby did. Meanwhile, individuals who simply put down “retired,” instead of any industry at all, gave 100 times more, just shy of $14 million.