As reported by the Daily Kos and edited by Stella Maris:
The top 20 congressional representatives taking the most money from the gun lobby in the 2017-2018 election cycle, according to OpenSecrets.Org.
(Note from Stella Maris: These figures are just the ones publicly available. They don’t include dark money and PAC money.)
Ted Cruz (R-TX), $309,021.
Martha McSally (R-AZ), $227,928.
Steve Scalise (R-LA), $132,831.
Devin Nunes (R-CA), $95,093.
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), $85,168.
John Culberson (R-TX), $43,575.
Greg Gianforte (R-MT), $43,525, assaulted a reporter over tough questions, and spent a lot of campaign money attacking the idea of an assault weapon registry.
Lou Barletta (R-PA) $41,747, thinks the solution to mass shooting is to “curtail” elected officials’ town hall meetings with constituents.
Kevin Cramer (R-ND,) $39,796, compared immigrant children’s detainment cages with “playgrounds.”
Will Hurd (R-TX), $38,350. The only African American Republican in the House, he’s not running for reelection.
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), $34,986, made a lynching joke, and photos of her with Confederate gear circulated on the Internet.
No longer in office, but the stink remains:
Dean Heller (R-NV), $76,713, voted against everything from background checks to magazine sizes.
Paul Ryan (R-WI), $65,347, blocked the CDC from collecting gun violence data.
Karen Handel (R-GA), $58,813, appeared at the NRA convention in 2018.
Mia Love (R-UT), $50,233, thinks Republicans should have a policy plan for gun violence. Insurance policy, that is.
Pete Sessions (R-TX), $34,200, blamed gun violence on “diversity” in American culture.
Jim Renacci (R-OH), $33,284, took a strip club owner’s private jet all around Ohio trying to win Sen. Sherrod Brown’s seat.
Barbara Comstock (R-VA), $34,453.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), $30,297.
Mike Coffman (R-CO), $28,085, known for his attack ads.
2016 top money makers:
Ron Johnson (R-WI), $165,538.
Rand Paul (R-KY), $110,500, loves inciting violence against U.S. representatives who aren’t white.
Pat Toomey (R-PA), $79,908, pretended to work “behind the scenes” on gun legislation no one has ever seen.
Ryan Zinke (R-MT), $79,068. As Secretary of the Interior, he had private meetings with gun manufacturers, in companies he has a financial stake in—that he “forgot” to disclose when he was nominated for the position.
Rob Portman (R-OH), $52,686, but is one of the top 10 all-time gun moneymakers.
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), $42,000, thinks video games are the real reason why people with guns kill people.
Josh Hawley (R-MO) got NRA/dark money for his 2018 Senate run against Claire McCaskill. His campaign was accused of illegally coordinating large ad buys with the NRA, in Missouri. The people involved were accused of the same scheme during the 2016 election, where they coordinated with the Trump campaign.
And finally:
CNN reported 49 out of 50 Republican officials who were asked about the last couple of days’ mass shootings avoided speaking on air.