Pro-gunners to shoot-it-out in runoff election

State Senator Joe Baca (D) will face Elia Pirozzi (R) in the Special Election to replace the late congressman, George Brown, for the 42nd District in California on November 16th.

Gun control was a major issue with Baca's chief opponents Marta Brown, the widow of the late congressman, and Fontana major Dave Eshleman spending a vast majority of their time and money attacking Baca on his position on the Second Amendment and for accepting support from the NRA.

As long as both candidates remain faithful to their word, and the Second Amendment, gun control IS a dead issue.

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However, Pirozzi spokesman Mike MeCey said the campaign is actually counting on Macias Brown voters to show up and vote Republican.

He said the GOP nominee has more in common with those who voted for Brown's widow than Baca does on the issues that matter most to them - education and gun safety.

"We are going to go out, and Elia is going to show that him and Marta are not far apart on the issues," MeCey said.
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Guns N' Ballots

High at the top of media orthodoxy is the idea that opposition to gun control is a loser at the ballot box, especially in wake of high-profile killings like Columbine. But a special House election in California should help pop this liberal balloon.

The race was between Marta Macias Brown and State Senator Joe Baca. Both sought the Democratic nomination for the seat held by Mrs. Brown's husband, liberal icon Rep. George Brown, until he died in July. Though Mr. Baca was well known, Ms. Brown had going for her the longest winning streak in American politics: 35 out of the last 36 widows who've run to succeed their husbands in office have won. She also brought her own qualifications to the job, having worked as a close aide to her late husband for a decade.

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But you won't see many headlines about Mr. Baca's victory, because it goes against the liberal belief that gun control is a winning issue. And the media buys into the myth because polls consistently provide incomplete data.

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It's probably too much to expect that the failure of Mrs. Brown's hysterical anti-gun campaign will be taken into account by the media types intoning about the 2000 campaign. But we take some confidence in a public which time and again has demonstrated at the polls that it well understands the difference between reasonable restrictions and political hype.

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