{"id":80193,"date":"2017-10-02T05:10:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=80193"},"modified":"2017-10-02T05:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T21:21:18","slug":"shannon-watts-will-not-run-congress-least-not-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/shannon-watts-will-not-run-congress-least-not-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress&#8230; At Least Not Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_40086\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/maxresdefault.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"shannon-watts-will-not-run-congress-least-not-now\" title=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40086\" title=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/maxresdefault-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/maxresdefault-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/maxresdefault-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/maxresdefault.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. (<em>Photo: Moms Demand Action<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Shannon Watts is not running for Congress.<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/09\/26\/shannon-watts-not-running-to-replace-jared-polis\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"shannon-watts-will-not-run-congress-least-not-now\" title=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\">The Denver Post<\/a> that she will not campaign\u00a0to fill the seat of U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado\u2019s 2nd Congressional District. Polis is running for governor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m grateful to the support I received as I spent the summer considering a run for office in Colorado, particularly from women who are hoping a female candidate enters what is currently a race of all-male candidates,\u201d said Watts, who founded Moms Demand Action in 2012 on the heels of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Colorado has a significant amount of women represented in our state legislature, we need more women in leadership roles like governor and our members of Congress,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019ll work hard behind the scenes to make sure that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_80211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"clickTracking\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/long-range-shooting-fall-2017\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"shannon-watts-will-not-run-congress-least-not-now\" title=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80211\" title=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80211\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lrs-drop-shadow.jpg\" alt=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lrs-drop-shadow.jpg 420w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lrs-drop-shadow-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/lrs-drop-shadow-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-80211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Check out all of articles in the Fall edition of Long Range Shooting, GunsAmerica&#8217;s newest specialty publication.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Watts, who lives in Boulder, claimed that her role as an advocate for tougher gun laws and her activism to encourage women to jump into the political arena via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.risetorun.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"shannon-watts-will-not-run-congress-least-not-now\" title=\"Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... At Least Not Now\">Rise to Run<\/a> is what\u2019s keeping her on the sidelines this upcoming election season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, I decided my work with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Rise to Run is more important than ever, given the election of Donald Trump, and right now I\u2019m going to stay focused on helping to shape the laws and elections that impact women,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Power-hungry people like Watts are attracted to political office like moths to a flame.\u00a0 I&#8217;d wager to guess that she&#8217;s bowed out not because of her day job cheerleading for gun control but because she wasn&#8217;t tracking well in the polls. Either that or the DNC told her to wait her turn.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake though, Watts will eventually run for office.\u00a0 It&#8217;s inevitable.\u00a0 She&#8217;s got everything the DNC looks for in a candidate: contempt for the\u00a0Constitution, name recognition built\u00a0off\u00a0of community organizing and\u00a0oodles and oodles of money to buy public support via Bloomberg&#8217;s war chest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shannon Watts is not running for Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":40086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,216],"tags":[132,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-80193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-s-h-blannelberry","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shannon Watts will NOT Run for Congress... 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