Posted on 07/31/2013 1:05:39 PM PDT by Red Steel
Democratic New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg is considering assisting two pro-gun control Colorado senators facing a recall election after pushing through a sizable and strict gun control package in their state.
The state senators, Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) and senate president John Morse (D-Colo. Springs) were critical in narrowly passing the gun laws over objections of their constituents.
Bloomberg hired lobbyists to operate in Colorado for the duration of the gun control debate that passed several new anti-gun laws including mandatory background checks and magazine capacity limits. Bloomberg was also in communication with Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, who signed the controversial bills into law without objection.
Grassroots gun rights groups formed immediately, collecting signatures in order to start the recall election process, targeting four senators and successfully petitioning for the recall elections of Giron and Morse.
After the Colorado department of state verified that the petitioners had collected enough valid signatures, the senators filed suit, claiming that the petitions used did not meet the constitutional burden required to force a recall election.
Federal court judge disagreed, pointing out that the petitions used were provided for the gun rights organizers by the department of state and that the same petition forms have been used by petitioners from both parties with past recall attempts.
Now with Giron and Morse being forced to run again for their seats in September of this year, Bloomberg may more directly back the senators’ reelection bids.
After finding out that the senators are both facing recall elections, Bloomberg was asked if his anti-gun rights organization, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, was turning towards Colorado politics.
“I certainly hope so,” he said, adding, “These two elected officials apparently had the courage to stand up and vote for a sensible gun law where you just have background checks to keep people with mental illnesses … and people with criminal records from buying guns. Something that 80 or 90 percent even of NRA members are in favor of.”
While there exists some support for mandatory background checks nation-wide, Gallup polls indicate that nowhere near that percentage of the population is in favor of them, with some calling it “the 90 percent myth.”
“They’re going to turn out to ride me out of town on a rail,” Morse said. “Symbolically, if you could take me out, that would be a benefit to the special gun interests.”
Morse has filed a criminal complaint with the Colo. Springs district attorney’s office, calling out the signatures for being fraudulent, even though they have been twice vetted and his administration had the opportunity to investigate the signatures themselves.
Morse’s campaigners were accused of harassing people who signed the petition, while Giron’s supporters were caught on tape in what looks like accepting money to protest against the petitioners.
Currently the new gun laws are headed to a federal court in a lawsuit backed by gun and civil rights groups, major manufacturers including Magpul and 55 of the state’s 64 sheriffs.
It has been revealed that Bloomberg has been funneling taxes from New York into his anti-gun group, MAIG.
Bloomberg staffer John McCarthy defended the arrangement, saying “The Mayor’s top priority is keeping New Yorkers safe and that includes seeking sane gun laws in other states and D.C. to help reduce the flow of illegal guns to New York.”
Spend all of your money on it Bloomie! It’s a great cause.
The hubris of the Left, of course, knows no bounds. But the idea of disarming the law abiding is an idea that must be actively resisted, not coddled, because someone who clearly does not understand the most basic American principles, has vast stores of cash to play with.
And on the subject of the attack on private gun rights, see Missing Link.
William Flax
Maybe he can get Weiner and Filner to rally with him.
(The state senators, Angela Giron (D-Pueblo) and senate president John Morse (D-Colo. Springs) were critical in narrowly passing the gun laws OVER OBJECTIONS OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS!)
Mr. Bloomberg, this is still America. You may not like that, but since it is the PEOPLE of the State of Colorado get to decide who represents them, not you. When citizens vote for a person for elected office they expect that person to represent THEIR interests. When the politicians does not do that the citizens have the right to get rid of them.
If Bloomberg himself comes in, the chances of the two bozo’s winning drops by at least 50%, and they are slim to begin with.
No one in either of these two districts likes outsiders involved in their business.
Since prissy, control freak New Yorkers go over so well in the Intermountain West...
They do seem to be doing just that, don't they?
Now that Mayor Bloomie has cleaned up New York, ended all crime, rid the city of gangs and gangsta’s, confiscated all the illegal guns and got everyone on his preferred diet.
Now he has time to offer his expertise to other states.
I think Mike should go to Colorado and have as many photo-ops as possible with the two senators.
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Excellent!
Ya mean the old lady who got slapped down for tryin to ban big gulps? Jah, bring it.
I think Mike should go to Colorado and have as many photo-ops as possible with the two senators.
Sure. Send the nasty little twerp out my way. I believe it'd do him good to discover he's less than 1% as welcome as a hard hail storm.
Chicago style vote fraud with bussed in "voters" is coming down on this recall like a ton of bricks. Most of Denver will vote in Colorado Springs then 45 minutes later vote in Pueblo.
How about billboards in Colorado saying:
“New York: Keep your BloomTurd and your Weiner”
(We have enough of our own)
“We have 32 ounce sodas in Colorado; FU Bloomberg”
“NY: Why send us an old Dork when you can send us a young Weiner?”
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