ENDORSED
BY GIFFORDS
For Congressman Steven Horsford, the issue of gun violence is personal. When he was just 19, Representative Horsford lost his father in a tragic shooting. Like many other survivors who have been touched by this issue firsthand, he turned his pain into action and dedicated his life to advocating for his community in Las Vegas.
In 2004, Congressman Horsford was elected to the Nevada State Senate, where he would go on to serve for eight years and make history as the first African American to be named Senate Majority Leader. When the opportunity to run for Congress arose in 2012, Representative Horsford found the courage to act and made history once more as the first-ever African American to represent Nevada in Congress. While Congressman Horsford lost his seat in a Republican wave in 2014, he remained undeterred in his commitment to serve his community and returned to office in 2018, handing Democrats a gun safety majority in the House and a mandate to advance legislation designed to keep American communities safe.
In Congress, Representative Horsford has been a leader in the fight to pass universal background checks and to close loopholes in our federal laws that allow individuals who have committed domestic abuse to access firearms. He also introduced the Break the Cycle of Violence Act, a landmark piece of legislation that would allocate $6.5 billion for effective community-based violence intervention programs and create a new Office of Community Violence Intervention and a National Community Violence Response Center within the Department of Health and Human Services. It is absolutely crucial that Congress pass this lifesaving legislation to interrupt the cycles of violence that plague communities from coast to coast and give future generations the chance to grow up free from the scourge of gun violence.
Now more than ever, we need to protect leaders in Washington DC who can actually speak to the lived experiences of survivors of gun violence. With our gun safety majority on the line in the House, we must do just that by reelecting Representative Steven Horsford to Congress.
In 2004, Congressman Horsford was elected to the Nevada State Senate, where he would go on to serve for eight years and make history as the first African American to be named Senate Majority Leader. When the opportunity to run for Congress arose in 2012, Representative Horsford found the courage to act and made history once more as the first-ever African American to represent Nevada in Congress. While Congressman Horsford lost his seat in a Republican wave in 2014, he remained undeterred in his commitment to serve his community and returned to office in 2018, handing Democrats a gun safety majority in the House and a mandate to advance legislation designed to keep American communities safe.
In Congress, Representative Horsford has been a leader in the fight to pass universal background checks and to close loopholes in our federal laws that allow individuals who have committed domestic abuse to access firearms. He also introduced the Break the Cycle of Violence Act, a landmark piece of legislation that would allocate $6.5 billion for effective community-based violence intervention programs and create a new Office of Community Violence Intervention and a National Community Violence Response Center within the Department of Health and Human Services. It is absolutely crucial that Congress pass this lifesaving legislation to interrupt the cycles of violence that plague communities from coast to coast and give future generations the chance to grow up free from the scourge of gun violence.
Now more than ever, we need to protect leaders in Washington DC who can actually speak to the lived experiences of survivors of gun violence. With our gun safety majority on the line in the House, we must do just that by reelecting Representative Steven Horsford to Congress.
We are proud to endorse Steven Horsford for the US House of Representatives.
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