Sandy Hook families file complaint against NRA

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HARTFORD — Families of those affected by by the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings on Wednesday filed an elections complaint against the National Rifle Association, charging that the NRA illegally used money from its federal political action committee to oppose Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s gubernatorial campaign last year.

The complaint, which also alleges improper funding of dozens of legislative campaigns dating back to 2003, was presented to the State Elections Enforcement Commission by Carlos Soto of Stratford, whose sister, Victoria Soto, was a teacher who was killed while trying to protect her class of first-graders; by Sarah Clements, whose mother, second-grade teacher Abbey Clements, survived the shooting; by Po Murray, the mother of four former Sandy Hook School students; and others.

“I will not stand by and let the gun lobby bully us around through illegal campaign-spending practices designed to politically destroy those who might disagree with them,” said Sarah Clements. “I think we have plenty of evidence that shows the NRA is pushing people around at every level,” the 19-year-old college student said in a phone interview Wednesday. “They’re not above the law.”

The group charges that the NRA funneled about $11,000 in so-called independent expenditures to oppose Malloy last fall. Itemized expenditures included $4,000 to pay for office staff at NRA national headquarters in Virginia, according to the complaint.

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