{"id":36,"date":"2011-08-24T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/index.php\/2011\/08\/24\/what-is-grnc-pvf\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T22:53:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T22:53:58","slug":"what-is-grnc-pvf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2011\/08\/what-is-grnc-pvf\/","title":{"rendered":"What is GRNC-PVF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The GRNC Political Victory Fund<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">By law, we are restricted from using organizational money to influence elections. The Grass Roots North Carolina Political Victory Fund is the tool we use to elect pro-gun lawmakers and throw out anti-gunners. The GRNC-PVF is North Carolina&#8217;s\u00a0 federally registered political action committee. We use it to make political donations and to run radio and newspaper ads for and against candidates. If you can help out with a small contribution, we will use it to elect candidates who will defend your rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">GRNC-PVF defeated anti-gun incumbents such as Senator Fountain Odom (2004), who was responsible for weakening the concealed handgun law and most recently replacing former House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman with pro-gun supporter Rayne Brown (2010) in NC&#8217;s 81 House District.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">GRNC-PVF ensured the election of Congressman Patrick McHenry, who says:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> \u201cFor years, Grass Roots North Carolina has stood on the front lines in the battle to preserve and defend our Second Amendment Rights. Gun owners have a trusted friend in GRNC and they have shown that trust time and time again at the polls on Election Day. I am proud to have earned GRNC\u2019s support in the past and look forward to working with them in the future as we continue the fight for the rights of law-abiding gun owners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You see, GRNC-PVF can attack anti-gunners in ways GRNC legally can\u2019t<\/span><\/strong>, such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Professionally done radio spots<\/span><\/strong> to defeat anti-gun candidates and elect those who support your rights; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hard-hitting mailings<\/span><\/strong> to many thousands of gun owners in a politician\u2019s district, delivering a loud-and-clear message that no anti-gunner is safe. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">The problem is that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">election laws prohibit using membership funds<\/span><\/strong> for election action, meaning that we have to raise additional money for this last-ditch effort to take back our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Those of you who know me understand that I don\u2019t ask for money lightly. GRNC doesn\u2019t constantly churn for donations like certain other groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Instead, we ask only when we truly need it because, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">unlike other organizations, we value your trust more than your money<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"> But now\u2019s the time, folks: The 2019 and 2020 elections present both an opportunity to capitalize on voter unrest, and a danger to our individual freedoms if we fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"grnc-pvf\/donate-to-grnc-pvf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Donate to GRNC-PVF\" src=\"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pvf-donate-376.png\" alt=\"Donate to GRNC-PVF\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.campaigner.com\/CSB\/Public\/Form.aspx?fid=824861&amp;ac=gr9g\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sign_up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GRNC Political Victory Fund\u00a0 By law, we are restricted from using organizational money to influence elections. The Grass Roots North Carolina Political Victory Fund &#8230; <a title=\"What is GRNC-PVF?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2011\/08\/what-is-grnc-pvf\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about What is GRNC-PVF?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grnc-general","tag-grass-roots-north-carolina-political-victory-fund","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2468,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/2468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}