Because she comes across as a ‘nice lady’, Cathy Cloutier’s penchant for lying has often been overlooked. She has now hung herself with her own words. To (half-) wit:
I’m not the reason the Democrats in the majority did not pass a ban on assault weapons.
*I never blocked the Assault Weapons bills.
*Democrats stopped the bills. Sen. Bruce Ennis in 2018 and David McBride in 2019.
*I will support debate on this issue. We need to consider banning some assault weapons and yet still allow women to protect themselves in their home.
*My opponent is misrepresenting the truth. She’s bringing fear and distortion to our neighborhoods…
You deserve a Senator who will not mislead or misrepresent the truth.
Like most lies, there are kernels of truth in Cathy’s assertions. For example:
I’m not the reason the Democrats in the majority did not pass a ban on assault weapons.
Partially true. She’s not the reason, merely a reason. If she were replaced by someone who supports a ban on assault weapons, the bill would have a better chance of passing. (Captain Obvious.)
I never blocked the Assault Weapons bills.
She merely voted to block the Assault Weapons bill in the Senate Executive Committee. (An aside, Cathy Cloutier is avoiding the word ‘Republican’ at all costs in her campaign this year, claims she is an independent voice. When she voted to block the Assault Weapons bill in committee, was she doing so as an ‘independent voice’, or as the Senate Republican Whip, a position where she represents all the troglodytes in the Senate Republican Caucus? A position that said Republican troglodytes chose her for. Her ‘independent voice’ claim is yet another provable lie.)
*Democrats stopped the bills. Sen. Bruce Ennis in 2018 and David McBride in 2019.
Democrats and Republicans stopped the bills. Specifically, in 2019, Senators McBride, Poore, Hocker and Cloutier voted to kill the bills. Senators McDowell and Townsend voted to debate the bills on the floor. Supporters of common sense gun control helped to defeat Senator McBride and sought to defeat Sen. Ennis as a result. They’re now challenging Cloutier.
*I will support debate on this issue. We need to consider banning some assault weapons and yet still allow women to protect themselves in their home.
This is where she contradicts herself and reveals herself as an NRA shill.
Her vote to kill the assault weapons ban was by definition a vote to oppose ‘debate on this issue’, not to, what’s the word she used, support debate on this issue. She’s trying to be on both sides of an issue again, much like her positions on abortion rights. Not only doesn’t she support debating the bills she helped to bury, she reveals herself as an NRA shill:
We need to consider banning some assault weapons and yet still allow women to protect themselves in their home.
This is right out of the NRA playbook. We can’t ban ALL assault weapons b/c the wimmenfolk need them for protection. Assault weapons. That is the NRA position and is now the stated position of Cathy Cloutier. Women need ‘some’ assault weapons to protect themselves. The pink ones? If you share that belief, and if the incessant lying doesn’t bother you, Cathy is your candidate. That’s just one reason why Moms Demand Action has endorsed Kyle Evans Gay, not Cathy Cloutier.
You deserve a Senator who will not mislead or misrepresent the truth.
Agreed. Cathy has been misleading and misrepresenting the truth since she’s been in office. Time for a change.