{"id":1521,"date":"2022-10-20T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/index.php\/2022\/10\/20\/paul-valone-i-just-got-an-unpleasant-surprise\/"},"modified":"2022-10-20T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:34","slug":"paul-valone-i-just-got-an-unpleasant-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2022\/10\/paul-valone-i-just-got-an-unpleasant-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Valone: I just got an unpleasant surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/cimages\/5bcf6b4cbc542c90ce112ef502d41dff\/GRNC-PVF%20masthead-improved600.jpg\" alt=\"GRNC-PVF\" width=\"675\" height=\"93\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\"><strong>Gun Rights Supporters:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><br \/> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"> <span style=\"font-family: CourierNew;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0\u00a0Your time is valuable, so I will make this brief. <strong><u>I recently got an unpleasant surprise<\/u><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I believed the our political action committee, the GRNC Political Victory Fund, had raised enough money to cover mailings of General Assembly districts \u2013 essential to winning the General Assembly supermajority needed to overcome Governor Roy Cooper\u2019s many vetoes. <strong><u>I was wrong<\/u><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>The unpleasant surprise<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Instead, in analyzing legislative races I discovered that redistricting has created a record number of open seats and competitive races \u2013 far more than we\u2019ve had to mail in past years \u2013 meaning that <strong><u>mailing costs for GRNC-PVF will be higher than ever before<\/u><\/strong>. Worse, Joe Biden\u2019s inflation has increased prices for postage, labor, and even paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>We have an opportunity\u2026if\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>we can take advantage of it<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">I thank you for responding to my last letter by contributing to our super PAC to finance the high-tech methods we are for the first time using to send Rep. Ted Budd to the U.S. Senate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Now, however, I am forced to ask you once again to <strong><u>help GRNC-PVF win a supermajority in the state legislature<\/u><\/strong>. As you may recall, GRNC is limited by law from using membership funds to impact elections, forcing us to do separate fundraising for our political action committee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u>Only with a supermajority can we repeal our Jim Crow-era pistol purchase permit law<\/u><\/strong>, to pass constitutional carry, or to pass others of our legislative objectives because Roy Cooper will veto them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Please help me raise another <strong><u>$15,000 to increase the conservative majority<\/u><\/strong> in the state legislature by going to: <span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Arial Black';\"><strong><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.grnc.org\/grnc-pvf\/donate-to-grnc-pvf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.grnc.org\/grnc-pvf\/donate-to-grnc-pvf<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With your help, Grass Roots North Carolina will continue its 28-year string of successes, which have included:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u25ba Passing concealed carry;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u25ba Passing concealed handgun reciprocity;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u25ba Passing Castle Doctrine\/Stand Your Ground;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u25ba Expanding concealed carry into restaurants, public assemblies, educational properties (limited), and elsewhere;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u25ba Killing scores of gun control bills; and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Grass Roots North Carolina is but a lightning rod, channeling your voice, your energy, your power to the politicians who need to hear it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> <br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Armatissimi e liberissimi,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/cimages\/5bcf6b4cbc542c90ce112ef502d41dff\/PaulV_Signature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"134\" align=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"> <br \/> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">F. Paul Valone\u00a0President, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grnc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grass Roots North Carolina<\/a><\/span><br \/> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">Executive Director, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rightswatch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rights Watch International<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;\">Radio<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;\"> host, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/gunspoliticsandfreedom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guns, Politics and Freedom<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Courier New';\">Author, <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rulesforantiradicals.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rules for ANTI-Radicals: A Practical Handbook for Defeating Leftism<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>P.S. I realize that in the Biden economy, everyone is being financially squeezed. But to help <strong>end<\/strong> that Biden economy, please consider donating <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grnc.org\/grnc-pvf\/donate-to-grnc-pvf\"><em>$250, $100, $50, or even $25<\/em><\/a><em> to help GRNC-PVF <strong>win<\/strong> in the 2022 elections!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun Rights Supporters: \u00a0\u00a0Your time is valuable, so I will make this brief. I recently got an unpleasant surprise.\u00a0 I believed the our political action &#8230; <a title=\"Paul Valone: I just got an unpleasant surprise\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2022\/10\/paul-valone-i-just-got-an-unpleasant-surprise\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Paul Valone: I just got an unpleasant surprise\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pauls-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}