Summer evening
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. ☁ Calm wind. The dew point is 63 degrees. The skies will clear around 7 pm.
Day by day working through the work week. 😫 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.