By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
Democrat Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico’s current wave of media popularity touting his $30 million second quarter campaign fundraising effort may look good in headlines, but it may not overshadow his anti-gun history, nor his reported choice of a legislative aide.
The New York Post is reporting Talarico has “tapped the former leader of a protest movement called “C–ks Not Glocks” at the University of Texas at Austin to be his right-hand woman. The newspaper says newly-named aide Ana Lopez “helped Talarico craft three major firearm restriction bills that he rolled out in the state legislature in 2019, all of which failed to pass.”
In the same report, the Post recalled Talarico’s “opposition” to what he believes are lax gun laws in the Lone Star State, and his criticism of President Donald Trump’s Second Amendment support.
But it is Lopez’s anti-gun-rights position which has the Post’s attention. The “C–ks Not Glocks” effort once included distribution of more than 4,500 dildos at the UT-Austin campus.
Talarico’s stance on guns is hauntingly reminiscent of another Texas Democrat, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke. Talarico has contended the Second Amendment is “not absolute” while he has also stated he is “not interested in taking anyone’s guns.”
Yet, he has also indicated support for a ban on modern semiautomatic rifles and original-capacity magazines in a video now circulating on “X.”
But the current news cycle is focusing on Talarico’s campaign fund raising, which has eclipsed that of Texas Republican Ken Paxton by a three-to-one margin. Paxton is currently the pro-Second Amendment state Attorney General. According to MSN and Bloomberg, the Texas Senate campaign “will be one of the most expensive campaigns of the November midterm elections.”
Veteran Sen. John Cornyn failed in his primary bid to stay in office earlier, so he is not in the race.
Talarico is using all of the traditional Democrat rhetoric by attacking “big money,” accusing the Supreme Court of creating “new loopholes for billionaires and special interests,” according to Yahoo News.
Published reports say his campaign issued a statement Wednesday that most of his donations for the second quarter (97%) were “$100 or less.”
