{"id":28670,"date":"2024-07-31T18:59:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28670"},"modified":"2024-07-31T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T22:59:21","slug":"bloombergs-bucks-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28670","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg’s bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post reports<\/a> that former Mayor Mike Bloomberg<\/a> pledges to spend big on candidates this fall:<\/p>\n

“The political arm of Everytown for Gun Safety<\/a>, the gun regulation group founded by former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, plans to spend $45 million over the coming months to elect favored candidates in eight of the states that could determine control of the White House, House<\/a>, Senate<\/a> and local offices. The effort will include a new student organizing drive, with plans to hire 30 new organizers for volunteer recruitment drives at 32 college and university campuses in Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, New York<\/a>, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin … About 80 percent of the $45 million will go to television and digital advertising, according to a person familiar with the spending who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly … Everytown announced a $60 million spending plan before the 2020 election aimed at defeating then-President Donald Trump<\/a> and electing more Democrats who support gun regulations.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg has made braggadocios claims like this before.\u00a0 Sure, he can afford it, but will he actually put up the money?\u00a0 Who knows.<\/p>\n

There’s negligible real grassroots here.\u00a0 It’s the same, tired phony claims gun control groups have made for decades and they’ve never, ever delivered a voting bloc for their issues.\u00a0 It’s one person (Bloomberg) with a lot of money making wild claims knowing the regime media will not fact check him.<\/p>\n

I don’t see anything new here.<\/p>\n