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2020-10-06 Home Front: Politix
Mark Kelly And Guns: Project Veritas Starts Digging
[VictoryGirls] The Arizona Senate race is rated a "toss up" by Real Clear Politics, where astronaut and sympathetic figure Mark Kelly is looking to unseat Senator Martha McSally.

After narrowly losing a Senate race two years ago to Kyrsten Sinema, McSally was appointed to finish out the remainder of the late John McCain’s Senate term. Now, she’s running for a Senate seat again, and her challenger is Mark Kelly. Kelly is a familiar figure in Arizona politics, as the husband of former congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
...former Democratic congresswoman from Arizona who resigned in 2012 due to brain damage following an assassination attempt by Jared Loughner, who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia...
We all know Giffords’s tragic story, which led her and her husband into gun control activism. Now, Project Veritas, coming off of a huge scoop on ballot harvesting in Minnesota that looked to tie the Ilhan Omar campaign to paying cash for ballots (which has since pushed the Minneapolis Police Department to issue a statement saying that they would be looking into the allegations), now has a new video out on Mark Kelly’s campaign.


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We all know that the Second Amendment is a huge issue for Mark Kelly, and not in a good way. However, the Senate candidate has paid lip service to gun ownership and has focused on being anti-Trump more than anything else.. His supporters, however, are a little more willing to be direct.

The video reveals Mission for Arizona Field Organizer, Angelica Carpio, who candidly reveals that Kelly must seem friendly to the 2nd amendment because Arizona is a "purple state." She expresses how the plan is to get "elected first." and then implement gun control."

Now, does Angelica Carpio accurately represent the Mark Kelly campaign stance here? Well, I guess the candidate will have to address that himself. But don’t worry, as always, Project Veritas doesn’t come with only a single serving.

Mark Kelly should not only be pressed on his stance on gun control, but also on his ties to China.

Tencent, a Chinese tech company, has invested in World View Enterprises, a Tucson-based company which Kelly helped launch in 2014."

While Kelly has claimed to have dropped ties with World View, his daughter is still with the company according to her LinkedIn profile."

Kelly served as a strategic adviser to World View until launching his Senate campaign last year. He maintains a personal financial stake in the company of between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of non-public stock and $15,001 and $50,000 worth of stock options, according to the financial disclosure records Kelly was required to file in his Senate bid."

Additionally, Kelly’s campaign has accepted at least $5,000 from David Wallerstein, who serves as Tencent’s chief exploration officer, responsible for the company’s operations outside mainland China and overseeing business initiatives with multinational partners."

You may have heard of Tencent. It not only has video games to its credit, but it also runs the Chinese messaging app WeChat. WeChat, which also allows for the transfer of funds, was targeted along with TikTok by a Trump administration executive order regarding the amount of personal data being collected by the Chinese Communist government from the users of the apps. The Department of Commerce announced that as of September 20th, neither app could be "distributed or maintained" through any "online mobile application store in the U.S." and no financial transactions would be allowed through the apps, though the use of both apps can continue without penalty for now, especially as a legal challenge is pending.

And yet Mark Kelly still has a financial interest in Tencent. His only explanation has been to counterattack Martha McSally via surrogates for raising the issue. Considering that the current state of the WORLD can be solely laid at the feet of the Chinese Communist party, it would certainly be a smart idea for Mark Kelly to divest himself from a Chinese company with a few fingers in data gathering. Will part two of Project Veritas’s examination of the Kelly campaign look into his Tencent ties, or will it be more of his ducking and dodging on campaign issues?

We shall see.
Posted by 746 2020-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 Dirty as the day in July is long
Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-10-06 04:16||   2020-10-06 04:16|| Front Page Top

#2 OK, wait a minute. His last name is Kelly but his wife's last name is Giffords. I guess that's OK. A bit on the non-traditional side but OK. I guess.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-10-06 11:43||   2020-10-06 11:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I believe his full name is Mark Edward Kelly-Giffords.
Posted by Chesing Slavinter3713 2020-10-06 15:12||   2020-10-06 15:12|| Front Page Top

#4 Mark Edward Giffords-Chinese-Communist-Party-Kelly is the correct spelling.
Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-10-06 22:55||   2020-10-06 22:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Bottom feeder for sure.
Posted by crazyhorse 2020-10-06 23:52||   2020-10-06 23:52|| Front Page Top

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