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<h2>NEWS RELEASE</h2>
<h3>GUN OWNERS HELPED OUST SEATTLE MAYOR, SEND ME SSAGE, SAYS CCRKBA<br>
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<div>BELLEVUE,
WA – Seattle gun owners can take much credit for the ouster of anti-gun
Mayor Greg Nickels in this week’s primary election, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said this morning
following what amounted to a concession speech at his press conference.</div>
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<div>Nickels
came in third in the city’s “Top Two” primary, signaling that voters in
Seattle were fed up with his bully pulpit style, and perhaps more than
anything, his arrogance, said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. No single
episode has better underscored that haughtiness than the mayor’s open
defiance of Washington State law that denied him the authority to set
up the city’s own restrictive gun laws.</div>
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<div>“When
the mayor announced last year that he would ban legally-carried
firearms from city property when he knew it would be contrary to the
state’s preemption statute,” Gottlieb recalled, “it made tens of
thousands of Seattle gun owners furious. Nickels insulted their
intelligence by promising to ban guns by executive order, which is the
height of municipal contempt for the rights of citizens under the state
Constitution. He literally threw away their votes.”</div>
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<div>CCRKBA
Projects Director Thomas McKiddie, a West Seattle resident, said he and
his gun-owning fellow Seattleites had simply had enough of the mayor’s
condescension toward their rights to be safe on city streets, in parks
and on other public property.</div>
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<div>“I
don’t know a single gun owner in Seattle who voted for Nickels,”
McKiddie said. “After he threatened an executive order, he lost the
nerve to actually issue one because he knew he would lose that fight in
court. Instead, he included gun prohibitions in use contracts for the
Seattle Center and other venues. He knew a citywide ban would be
unenforceable, and his ouster demonstrates that Seattle gun owners were
having none of it.”</div>
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<div>“We
hope this sends a signal to Nickels’ successor,” Gottlieb observed,
“that stirring the wrath of gun owners is a mistake. This week’s
primary result in Seattle should stand as a warning to other mayors who
signed on with New York’s Michael Bloomberg to trample the firearms
rights of their constituents.</div>
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<div>“Mayors
are not monarchs,” Gottlieb concluded. “They are not above the law.
Greg Nickels is going to have a long time to think about that, as he
watches this election season from the sidelines.”</div>
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<div>With
more than 650,000 members and support ers nationwide, the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ccrkba.org">www.ccrkba.org</a>) is one
of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit
organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving
firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and
facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local
communities throughout the United States.  </div>
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Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms<br>
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12500 N.E. Tenth Place<br>
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Liberals ALWAYS, ALWAYS consider socialist dogma more 
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