The same anti-Republican political action committee responsible for a billboard that targeted Matt Gaetz in January has paid for a second billboard in Pensacola, this time taking aim at the NRA.
The new sign on North W Street near West Fairfield Drive was paid for by Mad Dog PAC, an organization registered in December 2017 by Claude Taylor, a former White House staffer under Bill Clinton's administration.
The billboard reads: "The NRA is a terrorist organization."
Mad Dog PAC's billboard campaign is intended to target House Republicans ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
"With the GOP majority in the House and in the Senate, the NRA makes impossible any meaningful, common-sense gun reform," Taylor said in a phone interview Friday. "That includes background checks and assault weapon bans."
Mad Dog PAC solicits donations from the public through its website to fund its billboards. Taylor said he started receiving funds in December for the Gaetz billboard, which displayed Gaetz's mugshot from his 2008 DUI arrest. The caption read "Rep. Matt Gaetz, how many DUIs have you had? The voters deserve to know."
Taylor said the Gaetz billboard was one of the first billboards put up under Mad Dog PAC. Taylor said he currently has a contract for "28 or 29" billboards throughout the country and has received about $5,000 in donations from roughly 3,000 to 4,000 people in the last eight weeks.
The billboard campaign began at the start of 2018.
Mad Dog PAC looks to put up its anti-NRA and anti-Republican billboards in traditionally red states. Taylor said Pensacola isn't a specific target of his campaign.
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