The pro-Gun/NRA drama continues in the Republican primary race to be the next Sheriff of Clay County, Florida.
The controversy started when Darryl Daniels, who received an “A” rating from the NRA on July 14, 2016, announced that he at the time was the only candidate to have received the rating, and that former NRA president Marion Hammer told him that while the group was not going to make an endorsement in the race, he would be the only one receiving the “A” rating.
Shortly after Daniels mailed voters he received the rating from the NRA, Hammer took issue with Daniels’ campaign move, and sought to undermine his efforts by calling him a “liar” and putting out an endorsement of Craig Aldrich. Read more here.
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At the time Daniels put out his mailing, the other candidates in the race, including Aldrich, had not received a rating from the NRA.
So technically, Daniels’ assertion that he was the only one to have received the “A” rating was completely accurate.
Aldrich and other candidate in the race, James Jett, both received their “A” rating from the NRA on July 26, 2016, twelve days after Daniels received his.Here are the actual letters these two men received.
