Paul Helmke has a lot of issues, starting with basic honesty.
I knew Helmke when he was mayor of Fort Wayne. Was involved in local politics with him.
He's a lot of things, but dishonest isn't one of them. He's one of Heinlein's honest politicians, he stays bought. He's a fool, and a *expletive deleted*che, and a self-serving sack of human waste. But when he was mayor he belonged to us, and he did his job (advocating for our policies) as best he could. He got term-limited out, and the only other work he could find was with Brady.
So now he belongs to Brady, doing their advocacy as honestly and successfully as he can. Guys like him exist to be the human face of a message or an organization. He smiles, he looks friendly, and he tells the cameras what he's been told to say. I have no problem with people being hired to advocate for a cause. That he's advocating for Brady is entirely coincidental. He never had an anti-gun thought in him back when he was mayor, nor a pro-gun thought either. If the NRA had offered him a job he'd be working for us as well as he could.