NRSC Still Aiming For Udall On D.C.Gun Ban Statement

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is continuing to blast Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mark Udall for a statement his Congressional office released last week stating he agreed with a federal court decision overturning Washington D.C.'s gun ban.

In their latest Udall online attack ad, released Friday, the NRSC claims Udall "played election-year politics" by agreeing with the decision, pointing to several times when he voted to maintain D.C.'s gun ban in private residences and against allowing D.C. residents to own a handgun.

"What would his liberal base in Boulder say about selling out his anti-gun positions to score election-year points?" the ad concludes.

Udall campaign spokesperson Taylor West answered previous NRSC criticism of Udall's support of the court ruling by saying Udall believed that "Congress wasn't justified in overriding Washington, D.C.'s local government decisions while the issue was still being decided in the courts."  

"The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling answered that question," West said previously. "Congressman Udall praised that ruling for strengthening the interpretation of the Second Amendment, and as he said in his statement (Wednesday), he hopes the Supreme Court ruling will do the same."

As for Friday's NRSC video, West said, “With oil executive Bob Schaffer, who spent six years in Congress doing nothing for Colorado and then cashing in with a six-figure Big Oil job, as their candidate, it’s no surprise that national Republicans know their only chance is to attack and distort Mark Udall’s record of working for Coloradans.”

Also, the NRSC seems to be sticking with the "U-Turn Udall" moniker it came up with last week: the video released Friday even includes a fancy graphic featuring Udall's head on a u-turn road sign.

But this doesn't mean the GOP is mothballing the "Boulder liberal" label: it shows up six seconds into the video.