{"id":20586,"date":"2019-11-25T08:54:28","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586"},"modified":"2019-11-25T08:54:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T13:54:28","slug":"bloomberg-seeks-democrat-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg seeks Democrat nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebloomberg.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mayor Bloomberg<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/24\/us\/politics\/michael-bloomberg-2020-presidency.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">running for the Democrat nomination for President<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I see no need to cover his stance on the issues as New Yorkers suffered through 12 years of his statist bullshit. He is old, unpleasant and obnoxious. The only thing he brings to the table is money.<\/p>\n<p>Will he be able to buy enough support to secure the nomination?\u00a0 Consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeednews.com\/article\/amberjamieson\/bloomberg-gun-violence-moms-demand-action-volunteers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;A key group of volunteers who Michael Bloomberg is likely counting on to support his newly announced presidential run, and who represent a cause that\u2019s central to his attempt to appeal to Democratic voters, told BuzzFeed News they are uncertain if they\u2019ll support the billionaire in 2020 &#8230; BuzzFeed News spoke with 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/momsdemandaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Moms Demand and Students Demand Action<\/a> grassroots volunteers, several of whom lost family members to gun violence, on what they\u2019re planning to do in the 2020 campaign, who they\u2019re backing \u2014 and whether they\u2019d support a Bloomberg run. None of them said they\u2019d definitely vote for Bloomberg or that he was their top candidate &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He spent tens of millions over the years on this phony astroturf and he clearly doesn&#8217;t have their loyalty.  Hopefully this is a sign of things to come.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D20586&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Bloomberg is running for the Democrat nomination for President. I see no need to cover his stance on the issues as New Yorkers suffered through 12 years of his statist bullshit. He is old, unpleasant and obnoxious. The only thing he brings to the table is money. Will he be able to buy enough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D20586&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20586\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,20,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2020","category-humor","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20586"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20593,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20586\/revisions\/20593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}