In a case of confidence gone awry, now former Senator Angela Giron told the New Republic in August that if either her or Senate President John Morse lost their seats, then Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns “might as well fold up.”
Angela Giron, one of two Colorado state senators who is up for a recall election on Sept. 10 as a result of voting for new gun restrictions earlier this year, did not hesitate when I asked her over the weekend what the recall meant for New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and the rest of the national gun-control movement.
“For Mayors Against Illegal Guns, if they lose even one of these seats, they might as well fold it up. And they understand that,” she said.
Indeed they do. Reports filed Tuesday night with the Colorado Secretary of State show that Bloomberg has donated $350,000 to one of several groups fighting against the recall.
Both Morse and Giron lost.
Your move, Mayor Bloomberg.
You could aways move from New York ya know.
Pay to replace current income and full access to my time to sixty hours per week on average. If you'd like me to relocate to New York, the price would require a cost of living adjustment.
Mr. Mayor of New York City (only);
We the people have spoken. Please restrain yourself and your money to your city and your beverage police. Yes, you are VERY wealthy; however, you are still just a man. You are entitled to one vote, legally. Yes, you feel entitled to all the votes you can buy. That makes you powerful but not any more ethical or moral than the best amongst us as a people.
If your program wants to go after illegal guns, pursue the 'fast and furious' scandal. Naturally you won't do that because you are fervently demoncratic and are after ALL guns. I salute your zeal but implore you to stay home with all of your cash and dizzy notions. We just do NOT agree with you and find your meddling nettlesome.
Should you find a good ethical and reasonably bipartisan I would probably support your cause. Let us just face facts; you are a man of great financial substance, that will USUALLY buy you anything that you can imagine. We the people did just not agree with you on the issues of sodas or guns. Please understand that your touch is golden for your personal wealth but your meddling in our lives goes FAR beyond nettlesome into outright resentment. This is true even if we might be inclined to support the issue without your "help."
Please consider buying honest elections where no one votes more than once and the dead don't vote at all. Elections money cannot buy and absent falsehoods and outright lies, elections based on the issues only…
You might consider that your "MAIGic" program could have succeeded if based on logically defendable facts and without your name as the most powerful force and, by far the most powerful and statically relevant donor.
Get off your high horse and try living amongst us and find our really disabling problems and approach the issue with a positive note verses your negativity, you might succeed more often. I am available at $175K per year with a five year minimum contract. That buys LOYALTY, SUPPORT, and HONESTY. Honesty regardless of how that truth might make sure you feel. Should the truth anger you sufficiently, you have the option to buy out the contract. My suspicion is that most people fear your financial power too much to speak the truth for fear of the financial consequences. I am of an age and a stage in life that that the truth and the lack thereof matters more than cash. I asked for enough renumerance to
Michael McNamara Well… Not TO far west!
Can you recall Loopy now? He signed it!
bloomberg says no guns but, he hired a armed guard ant 76,000.00 per year, shit talker.
"Colorado shows liberals progressives that people still believe in the US Constitution/Bill of Rights!!! Next stop for your previous Senators; Management Positions at your local Burger King!!! Then they can contact Mayor. Bloomborg and whine about the soda sizes!!!!"
Whose next XD
Great news Colorado! Now, is there a way to recall a president??
Common sense prevailed in Colorado yesterday!!!! I'm proud to be life member of the NRA!
Yeah, but I live in New York.
MAZZELTOV !!!
Way to go Colorado!!
Rex, as a recall worker (3 of the campaigns) from the get go, I can state categorically that The NRA, Republican party, and any other national group did NOT participate with us till they saw we had a very good chance of winning, in fact we spent 500K to Bloombergs $3 million
Do bad rashes just "fold up"?
James Sloan Amen, now other states need to follow this example of we the people of Colorado have prevailed!
Fantastic day for the second amendment.
We threw the bums out!
I'd be more convinced of the validity of the outcome on all this had mail-in ballots been available to all voters, had there not been allegations of irregularities in the petition-gathering phase of all this and if, even knowing they were being cast, "Gypsy" votes were not being tallied. A less-than 400 difference does not a mandate make, so it would be far more interesting to see if yesterday's vote would still hold up (see: greater voter participation versus apathy/uninformed voters). I do have a problem with Bloomber's involvement in all this. He's a nanny-stater (which I despise, even though I am not in any way, shape or form of the Repub mindset; but, at the same time, I have a problem with the involvement of the NRA on the flip side. Outside money, appearing on either side, is not a positive direction for an in-state political issue. Also, I'll say this: I think we need to consider legislation that would LIMIT campaigning to perhaps no more than 4-6 weeks prior to an election – two months for a Presidential election. Look at it as a cost savings, not to mention removal of a monumental source of aggravation (month-after-month of increasingly nasty political ads and robocalls). Just a thought.
This brings a smile to my face 🙂
Well….?
this is not only a great day for Colorado, but for American gun owners as well!!
Way to go Colorado!!!
Is this a great day in Colorado or what?