Daily News lies: Bloomberg far outspends NRA

The Daily News is continuing their series of hit pieces with today’s article, “National Rifle Association doles out $217,000 in campaign cash to New York politicians over past 9 years“:

“… Since 2003, the NRA has reported giving New York legislators and political committees $217,400 — the organization’s largest outlay over that period … Almost half of the donations in New York came in 2010, after the legislative defeat of a microstamping bill, which would have required bullet casings to carry unique markings, campaign records show … The NRA then splashed $92,500 to the state Senate Republican Campaign Committee weeks before the 2010 elections, when the GOP won back control of the chamber after two years on the outside …”

That’s a lot of money.  Surely, they must be buying a lot of influence with it, right?

Let’s see how much money has Mayor Bloomberg been spreading around.  If you go here and type in his name you get:

• $500,000 to the NYS Senate GOP on 10/12/06
• $500,000 to the NYS Senate GOP on 2/22/08
• $50,000 to the NYS Assembly GOP on 5/13/08
• $50,000 to the Bronx County GOP on 5/15/09
• $75,000 to the Kings County GOP on 9/19/09
• $50,000 to the Queens County GOP on 4/27/09
• $50,000 to the New York County GOP on 9/22/09
• $50,000 to the Richmond County GOP on 9/14/10

And this is just a partial list of contributions he’s made in New York alone.  Bloomberg has far outspent NRA trying to get his way and it has not been working.  The DN can easily find this information in the exact same place as the campaign contributions NRA has made.  They just choose not to report on it.

Then they move on to lobbying data:

“… The NRA and the National Shooting Sports Foundation — whose officials refused to comment for this story — have also spent a combined $159,000 in lobbying in New York since 2009 …”

Nice, but Bloomberg spent $325,895 during the same period.