June 26, 2013
Two weeks ago a headline appeared, "Rough week for Bloomberg". It focuses on the Bloomberg-funded Mayors Against Illegal Guns' (MAIG) failure to obtain their desired outcome in Nevada very recently. "The AP called it, “a significant defeat for New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control advocacy group, Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns, which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars working to get the bill passed." "
While that short article was heartening to read, it wasn't nearly rough enough for him or MAIG.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/14/rough-week-for-bloomberg/
But it's gotten worse for "Big Mike" since then. So what's been happening in Bloomberg's tyrannical world of gun control? I'll comment on some here and other issues in following posts.
He started by writing hundreds of wealthy, campaign contributing, New York political donors and asking them to withhold all 'gifts' from the 4 Democratic senators running in 2014 who opposed the gun control legislation that failed in the Senate earlier this year. This is significant because "No state is more essential to the party’s fund-raising: Sitting Democratic senators and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee raised $30.4 million from New York donors in 2012". Bloomberg's message - 'don't support the people who don't believe what I believe or support my agenda'. It doesn't matter to him that they might have been driven by the voices of their constituents, or by their oaths to uphold the Constitution of the United States including its 2nd Amendment which "shall not be infringed," or by their own beliefs. Bloomberg blames the "gun lobby" and opposing Democratic senators and wants them removed. Bloomberg, an Independent, doesn't care what party they belong to. He only cares that they didn't vote the way he wanted them to. He knows that the Republican senators who voted against gun control and are running in 2014 are less politically vulnerable than the Democrats, so he's not targeting them, at least right now The ironic thing, as pointed out in this article, is that the Democrats' agenda most closely matches with Bloomberg's and Democratic leaders are now critical of Bloomberg for his aggressive stance against their party members and his national gun control tactics, fearing that his opposition will jeopardize Democratic control of the Senate and also judging that his tactics are ineffective in furthering gun control across the nation. Essentially, Bloomberg, through his aggressiveness, could shoot himself and the gun control agenda in the foot, pun intended.
"In an interview, Mr. Bloomberg said he believed gun deaths had reached such a state of crisis that he needed to force the issue." That's an interesting statement since the data irrefutably shows that gun-related crime and deaths have been on a downward trend for 20 years and are near all-time lows.
"Mr. Bloomberg said voters would reward the senators if they heeded the public — which broadly favors background checks — instead of the National Rifle Association and other groups opposed to the legislation." There's still no acknowledgement here, of course, that the huge majority of voters are supporting "background checks" without having ANY idea what's hidden in the details of the various legislative proposals and that they're anything but "common sense" or "reasonable".
In any context his statement, "That’s what democracy is all about", is a real gem considering he seems to think democracy is really about him spending huge amounts of money, abusing power, manipulation, and ultimately getting his way about extending for a mayoral term beyond the term limits of New York City (NYC), cigarette smoking, retail sales of soda, gun control, taxi / cab operations in NYC, etc.
Democratic criticism of Bloomberg includes "Privately, Democratic senators and aides complain that the shaming, scolding tone of some of Mr. Bloomberg’s ads is counterproductive. The mayor’s group has accused senators who voted against background checks of betraying their constituents and distorting the facts on gun control, an antagonism that many Democrats fear will only make the “no” votes firmer.", "“In Alaska, having a New York mayor tell us what to do? The guy who wants to ban Big Gulps?” Mr. Begich asked incredulously. “If anything, it might help me” ", and more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/12/nyregion/bloomberg-urges-no-gifts-to-democrats-who-blocked-gun-bill.html?_r=0
In another article is written, "Bloomberg has been out for blood running ads against Democrats who didn’t vote for those measures. But it turns out, Bloomberg’s efforts to unseat anti-gun control Democrats are backfiring." and "Schumer suggests Bloomberg’s targeting of pro-gun Democrats for their votes against gun-control legislation is unproductive. “Frankly, I don’t think Bloomberg’s ads are effective,” Schumer said. “The Mayor of New York City putting ads against people in red states is not going to be effective.” " Let's hope they're right about backfiring and lack of productivity.
http://bearingarms.com/mike-bloombergs-gun-control-message-backfiring/
In yet another article, this Bloomberg supporting author think he's focusing on the wrong things, acknowledging that gun control wouldn't even be a national debate right now if it weren't for the Newtown tragedy last December. Apparently, Bloomberg is also pushing a $20 billion plan for NYC to improve its flood protection in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. The author thinks Bloomberg should be fighting gun control within NYC limits and "carbon-related global warming" or "climate change" on a more global scale.
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113461/bloomberg-wrong-focus-gun-control-instead-climate-change#
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