Posted on 03/31/2013 4:35:18 PM PDT by neverdem
Is Michael Bloomberg helping or hurting his cause? When the New York mayor’s organization, Mayor’s Against Illegal Guns, launched its $12 million advertising campaign to pressure lawmakers into supporting gun control legislation, the negative reaction from the NRA was predictable, but a week after the launch, the reaction from potential allies has also been cool. Senators and staffers working on bipartisan legislation say that Bloomberg’s effort to mobilize voters is less effective because it is also energizing gun control opponents. It’s pressuring lawmakers in the wrong way, too. Any legislator targeted by Bloomberg’s campaign who ultimately supports gun control legislation will look like he or she is being bowled over by a nanny-state mayor who wants to tell their constituents how to live their lives.
In conversations with senators working on bipartisan gun safety legislation, the discussion quickly moves to questions of culture. Democrats need Republican allies from states with a vibrant gun culture. Those Republicans can credibly carry the message that the final bill is not part of some secret plan to seize all the guns. The key point of dispute is what kind of records would be kept as a part of an expanded background check system. Records would help catch criminals, say its proponents. They would give federal gun grabbers a...
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The hurdle has always been that the people who want to fight gun control legislation are more likely to make it a voting issue than those who support gun control legislation. That's the reality Republicans and Democrats in conservative states feel. Having a New York City mayor threaten that you will be turned out of office if you don’t agree with him doesn’t change that reality one bit. In fact, it just gives you another thing to be against.
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Is it because totalitarian half-pints went out of style with Napoleon Bonaparte?
We need to stroke this guy’s ego.
He needs to run for POTUS in 16 as an indy.
He could be our Perot.
GRRRREAT post right out of the box, TigersEye!
I was thinking of totalitarian in my post and I'll just add...anti-American POS totalitarian.
FUMB
I like the way you think.
5.56mm
My one worry is that he’s tight with the Clintons and probably wouldn’t run against Hillary.
I think Hillary is the likely nominee (vs Biden and Cuomo).
Somehow I don’t think Bloomingidiot needs anyone to stroke his ego. I’m pretty sure he strokes himself obsessively.
How is it possible that New Yorkers consider NYC one of the most sophisticated cities in the world yet they take this buffoon seriously? Is the CIA now dosing all of the city with LSD?
bloomburge can only exist in NYC and the hamptons. he has no viability outsided of the effete NYC quaranteen zone.
(when did NYC become wimp central?)
Hey, Slate! The group is “Mayors Against Illegal Guns.” Not “Mayor’s.” Of course this group is also opposed to the group known as “Mayors in Favor of Illegal Guns.”
You guy’s need to be more careful with your apostrophe’s. Study the rule’s so you don’t make these mistake’s, especially when it come’s to important issue’s such as mayor’s and gun’s. /s or should I say /’s?
There used to be a shop near me that advertised “Bridal Gown’s” in their window for several years, until they went out of business. Not saying there was a cause and effect.
I think Bloom-terd is also discouraging NYC tourism.
No they can't. If any Republican supports more gun control the Party's done. Enforce the laws we have and stop making life hard on the honest.
I suspect that all the bullet purchases are just abuse of "stimulus" funds targeting gun owners. Making it more expensive to own a gun is in their playbook.
The only cause this bozo should be remembered for is the reason term limits should be observed.
Reichsfuhrer Bloomberg is stepping all over it. His dream of becoming der Fuhrer once Barry the Sequesterer is cooling his heals on the beach in Hawaii are fading fast.
(when did NYC become wimp central?)
In the 1960s, when all the other crap started. NYC started long gun registration then.
You know they are just doing it De’Liberately.
I’m starting to think it’s some kind of secret code.
If his own actions take him down the GOP will gladly welcome him back.
Oh, but it IS helping.
It’s helping stroke this sick psychopath’s over-inflated ego.
And that’s all.
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