Bloomberg is going to be a huge threat when he's done being mayor of NY

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That many $B can buy a lot of health care. Yes, he bought a primary election in Chicago, and another in CA. He bought the CO Dems without spending a dime by threatening to fund primarys against anyone who voted against his bills, and offering to help fund anyone facing backlash for voting for them.

We have the cheapest Dem legislators in the country.
 
That's the deal with Bloomberg. Aside from using his money to buy votes and influence politicians, he can buy advertising that brainwashes people. It's worked the last two elections for president. Brainwashing people, especially those who don't actually take the time to think for themselves, or ask any questions about anything, is easy. And they vote.
 
That many $B can buy a lot of health care. Yes, he bought a primary election in Chicago, and another in CA. He bought the CO Dems without spending a dime by threatening to fund primary's against anyone who voted against his bills, and offering to help fund anyone facing backlash for voting for them.
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That's the deal with Bloomberg. Aside from using his money to buy votes and influence politicians, he can buy advertising that brainwashes people. It's worked the last two elections for president. Brainwashing people, especially those who don't actually take the time to think for themselves, or ask any questions about anything, is easy. And they vote.
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But Colorado is not New York City, Chicago or California. He is going to find that they're a awful lot of gun owners in Colorado that can't be bought, won't change their minds, and won't back off. :uhoh:
 
Johnny Dollar said:
The man has $ 27 Billion and he loathes fireams. Of.course he'll.spend billions to get rid of those evil weapons. At 71, the clock is ticking faster for Mikey.
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Yea he hates firearms but gets his special NYPD bodyguard detail in to Bermuda with their guns.

See.. he is special and you are not.

Deaf
 
I won't ignore his threat but...

...his guff doesn't play well outside of NYC and locales of like extreme mindedness. I figure it's a poorly decided attempt at setting up a national legacy to keep from fading from view as past NYC mayors have into the tar pit of national level irrelevancy.

I don't know why he can't resign himself to a failed federal level run and then the obligatory SNL appearances. Seems to be the standard route for them.
 
Bloomberg is trying to create the impression that he is some kind of unstoppable political juggernaut; but he is mostly manipulating media to create a false impression.

In 2012, the NRA spent $20-24 million (depending on what you call a campaign expense) to elect 220 NRA A-rated House members and 40-something Senators. By contrast, Bloomberg CLAIMS to have spent $12 million on six House races to unseat three NRA B and C rated Reps. That is not a winning strategy and unless Bloomberg has a significant amount of his $27 billion in cash, rather than assets, it isn't a strategy he can afford to pursue.

In the election for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s seat, Bloomberg campaigned against a candidate who already faced a series of significant obstacles to getting elected. She was opposed by the Chicago machine and she was the only white candidate running for Jackson's Cook County district - which many thought a potential problem for her.

Depending on which source you believe, Bloomberg claimed to have spent $1.4 million, $2.1 million, or $3 million (I'd also note that as the story got older and bigger, the money claimed spent went steadily up) to make sure a candidate who was at best an underdog lost - and this wasn't a super pro-gun candidate, Halvorson supported registration and several burdensome gun laws. She simply opposed bans on guns and magazines. And for the record, Halvorson actually picked up a bounce in the polls after Bloomberg's big ad campaign.

It seems to me that whatever Bloomberg did spend to make sure Halvorson didn't win was more about creating a false narrative that he has millions and millions of dollars he will spend to defeat those who oppose him. Same with this announcement... Bloomberg can spend $500,000... Blanket the airwaves for a few days so that people actually see his commercial and then claim he spent whatever he thinks will scare the pee out of politicians and make them more pliable to hs will.

I don't think it is going to work; because ultimately Bloomberg can't buy votes - and his commercial isn't going to stir up some silent majority that supports gun control, by and large, it will anger and motivate gun owners to get involved and write. Whoever makes the mistake of listening to Bloomberg won't get a second chance to make it after 2014.
 
Gun control has a history of being popular with political progressives. Bloomberg has several vulnerabilities with that constituency. First of all, he's a billionaire -- a "1%er" -- and has very close ties to Wall Street. Second, he's strongly anti-union, especially against the NYC teachers' union, which he publicly compared to the NRA. Third, he's a really big advocate of stop-and-frisk tactics, which he claims address gun violence but usually just end up as weed busts.

The next time you hear progressives touting Mayor Mike as a big hero, remind them of those facts. They tend to get red in the face. Anything that undermines the credibility of Bloomberg and his efforts is OK in my book.
 
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^^^^^^

"Cryptofascist" seems more apt than "progressive" for Bloomberg, though the same can be said of a lot of so called progressive politicians through the years.
 
Money DOES buy votes. That's not even a viable argument. Money is how candidates get air time. Money pays for campaign trips. Money pays for smear campaigns. And that guy has a lot of money/assets. But he is an idiot. And people are seeing that. Let him spend his money. We need to stop spending money defending our 2A and spend more promoting it. You can never gain ground defending. Notice how the left is always on the attack? They are trying to gain ground against us. We need to put them on the defensive for a change. Let our 80,000,000 vioces be heard. And they are starting to be heard more every day. I cannot wait to see the 2014 elections.
 
The danger with Dictator Bloomberg is that only his opinion counts. Yours does not.

The media appearances after the courts struck down the soda size restriction indicated a pouty person who was mad that the world did not see things his way. Imagine a 3 year old with unlimited cash, a national media market and political approval by the current administration.

Do not underestimate the danger of Bloomberg's campaign. We need to get the truth out.
 
Bloomberg will be a continuing threat to gun ownership, but it's worse than that. Bloomberg, like any megalomaniac (think Lex Luthor), seeks to force others to bend to his will across a broad range of activities. Most of us consider most of what he wants to do in the interest of "helping" us to be gross violations of our personal liberty. But a megalomaniac sees the average person's liberty as utterly unimportant. The only value of people to such a person is that he can add them to his list of those he controls.

Sure, Bloomberg is free in this country to do what he's doing (part of it, anyway). He has the right to use his billions in many ways that freedom-loving people won't like. That's just proof that liberty is not without risk, nor was it ever thought to be.
 
It seems that people like Bloomberg are going to force us to earn our liberty every day (through legal, and civil means) to fight his type of manipulation, and control.
 
You have to take Bloomberg very seriously, as a new Yorker I know. He is the NRA's new foil in the media. Anytime the NRA is on TV the media will go to Bloomberg for a response. Free airtime for his message. The media knows the same old gun control fanatics (DiFi, McCarthy, the Brady Bunch) are boring and stale. Here's a guy that the media feels can actually do something due to his money and it is in their interest to make it an antagonistic storyline.

He may not be able to buy votes but he can affect elections by lobbying and contributions to one or two key votes and that's all he will need in these tight races. He is a business mogul, he knows to put his money where it will do the most good. He is by far the biggest threat to the 2A in our time. He's like the W R Hearst of our time
 
^^Yup! History is rife with individual jerks imposing their will on the people...
 
That's why it's important to take every opportunity to discredit Bloomberg and his initiatives. Hammer him where he's vulnerable. The constituency that loves gun control hates his other positions: he's anti-union, pro-Wall Street, and in favor of aggressive stop-and-frisk policing in minority communities.

It's important that his target audience for gun control knows where he stands on all these.
 
Didn't Bloomberg's money buy money buy him that recent election in Illinois?
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No, he didn't buy the election. That election was never in doubt. The Chicago machine had decided the winner months ago. There are no contested elections in Chicagoland. Mike Madigan (speaker of the Illinois House and the most powerful man in Illinois) and the machine picks the winners and losers in all the elections there (often even in the republican primaries) and have for years.

What Bloomberg bought was the national news coverage to make people think he beat the NRA. That is the real story.
 
Bloomberg by himself is a formidable foe but when you couple him with a willing media and the celebrity/political cause of the day they are as big a danger to the Union as I have seen.
Popular television, news shows, printed/internet media, some clergy, education and many others are combining under the same jugernaught that won the last national election. This is the fight of our lives and probably the last chance for peaceful resolution.
 
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I don't know that he is. I don't see him getting much of a toehold with either party. He is a Ross Perot or Ralph Nader. He has managed to make just about everyone mad.
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Which is why his Presidential exploratory committees never went far. He's generally despised by some very disparate and powerful groups across the nation, on numerous issues that appeal to both parties. You'll never have to worry about Senator Bloomberg...or even Governor Bloomberg (granted that's more NY vs NYC (and large parts of even NYC doesn't like him)...and certainly never President Bloomberg.

His ability to throw money around, use backdoor connections and use the media is the problem. I mean people tied to him pretty much wrote the SAFE ACT (Cuomo, being an idiot, had no involvement and thought it didn't apply to handguns).
 
I don't worry about him gaining further office either but he can bankroll plenty of those who are like minded.
BHO was pretty much a nobody who could read a pretty speach until he got some money behind him.
I don't want to think of more like that.
 
He's too evil to live long. I give him a couple of years until the stress kills him. Anyone who lets things like soft drinks bother them enough to make laws about them, is destined to have a heart attack or a stroke.
His money won't keep him alive, unless it's in a coma.
Can you imagine living around this guy, his own family doesn't like him.
 
Jeff White has it right. The Illinois 2nd district congressional election (Jesse Jackson Jr.s seat) was decided long before he ever wrote a check

Bloomberg paid that $2.1 million so he could hold a press event and claim he beat the NRA in Illinois.

But keep reminding all your liberal friends of how that hero Bloomie:

1. Crushed Occupy Wall Street with cops using military hardware and OC spray.

2. Crushed the teachers union and is dong the same to the firemen and cops in NYC.

3. Continues to support a minority focused stop and frisk law, ostensibly searching for guns.

4. Used his wealth to buy a 3rd term as mayor.

5. Is a huge supporter of Wall Street, the fount of his "obscene" wealth.

6. Ask how hyprocritical they are willing to be for more gun control?
 
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