Group Launches ‘3 Billboards’-Inspired Ads Calling Out Paul Ryan After Parkland School Shooting
Group Launches ‘3 Billboards’-Inspired Ads Calling Out Paul Ryan After Parkland School Shooting https://csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/group-launches-3-billboards-inspired-ads-calling-out-paul-ryan-after-parkland-school-shooting-1030x515-1024x512.jpg 1024 512 C-Suite Network https://csuiteold.c-suitenetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/group-launches-3-billboards-inspired-ads-calling-out-paul-ryan-after-parkland-school-shooting-1030x515-1024x512.jpgProgressive Turnout Project, a Democratic political action committee, launched a Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri-inspired campaign today demanding stricter gun control laws and specifically calling out House Speaker Paul Ryan for not proposing legislation in the wake of another deadly school shooting.
The group’s digital billboard outside Ryan’s Janesville, Wis., congressional office reads: “17 killed in their classrooms. Still no gun reform? How come, Paul Ryan?”
Ryan is one of several GOP members of Congress facing backlash for pushing aside gun control legislation while accepting donations from the National Rifle Association, a revelation brought to light after last week’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17 people, including 14 students, dead.
According to a two-page ad in The New York Times today, Ryan has accepted $61,401 in funding from the NRA. Progressive Turnout Project further points out that Ryan received an “A+ rating” and endorsement from the NRA in the 2016 election cycle.
“Gun violence is an epidemic…
