Posted on 10/23/2017 1:17:44 PM PDT by leaymane
Michael Bloomberg’s gun-control advocacy organization announced Monday it will contribute an additional $700,000 toward 2017 Virginia elections.
The group, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, pledged to contribute $400,000 to Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam’s campaign and $300,000 to to Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring’s re-election bid in the final two weeks of the race, according to The Washington Post. This latest pledge comes atop a previous commitment of $1 million in combined contributions to the pair of Democratic candidates, bringing the group’s total spending on Virginia races to almost $2 million.
The latest influx of cash comes amid an increasingly close Virginia gubernatorial race. The latest round of polling from Monmouth University has the election deadlocked with Republican Ed Gillespie leading 48 to 47 percent.
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I think it’s a crying shame all these billionaires try to buy or force their politics on us. It’s arrogant
Cantor outspent David brat 20 to 1.
Moore’s establishment candidate outspent him 15 to 1.
Hillary outspent Trump 3 to 1.
It’s not the money
This would be a golden opportunity to both blow Bloomberg out of the water, and make a big NRA sales pitch to the Virginia minority (all minorities) communities.
That is, line up dozens of simple testimonials by minorities about how guns saved their lives in Virginia.
Then run it as a commercial, of sorts, on websites popular among minorities that would be amenable to doing so. They would likely reach far more minorities than on TV, with a much better response. And since websites are often pressed for cash, they would probably leap at the opportunity for flat rates plus click-throughs.
So, a powerful political message, at a cut rate price, reaching an important target audience with a persuasive advert. And if it is persuasive enough, it would make a great NRA recruiting ad as well.
The more we beat them, even though they outspend us, the more it demoralizes them!
This information is a weapon against them!
The gun grabbers obviously think that the Virginia race is important.
I guess they are not giving to th black guy running for Lt. Gov....
ping. But, you already know this...
Another hypocrisy with gun grabbers like these. OF all those thugs in the NFL who got arrested, a YYYUUUGE number of them were also busted on illegal gun possession charges. Since these pampered overpaid crybabies are “role models” to “our children” it’s peculiar how BLoomingidiotberg, or Moms Demand Action(kinda sounds like a “granny porn” site, doesn’t it?) never taken the NFL to task over this. Oh, wait, that would screw up the NRA is racist narrative by making them out to look like racists in the eyes of other libs.
Michael Bloomberg suffers from some form of mental illness.
He literally lies awake in bed thinking up new ways to control other people’s lives.
If I had his dough I’d spend my time thinking about how to enjoy it.
Agreed! He needs to get a life.
I still can’t believe how many millions the liberals poured into that Jon Ossoff special election, an election for a single House seat, which would not have tipped the balance of power or had any real effect on the House.
It’s funny to me, to see liberals pour lots of money into what end up being losing causes.
It is a very good thing.
With President Trump in office, their source of near infinite money is cut off.
If Mikie thinks he and his family can have armed protection and not mine, he’s got another thing coming.
Bloomberg should be tied to a lamp pole on the S Side of Chicago.
Last November, Mikey Bloomturd bank rolled a campaign here in Maine to get super duper Universal Background Checks.
In other words, the end to private gun sales in Maine. Private gun sales in Maine have been a reality since the days of the Pilgrims.
In spite of being vastly overspent, the No on 3 forces defeated Bloomturd. The people of Maine to Bloomturd to go to hell.
The police chiefs (the dirty so-and-so’s) ran commercials, in uniform, supporting Bloomturd.
The elected sheriffs, however, also ran commercials in uniform, opposed to Bloomturd.
Bloomturd was defeated at the polls. Tough crap, Mikey!
Yes, we should all give up our guns like the Jews did in Nazi Germany before the war.
Bloomberg is not buying gun control, he is buying the entire Virginia government!
Y’all better elect Ed Gillespie!
What’s the difference from a rich New Yorker influencing Virginia politics and a rich Russian influencing US politics? I smell hypocrisy.
Can you smell the fear?
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