{"id":6059,"date":"2012-05-01T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6059"},"modified":"2012-05-01T11:54:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:54:17","slug":"bad-move-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6059","title":{"rendered":"Bad move Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/01\/romney-quietly-meets-with-bloomberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> meet with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayor\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Bloomberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; On Tuesday, Mitt Romney had a private breakfast with Mr. Bloomberg at the headquarters of the mayor\u2019s philanthropic foundation on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side &#8230; Over coffee and juice, the two discussed several staples of Mr. Bloomberg\u2019s agenda in Washington over the last decade: the economy, immigration, education and even <strong>gun control<\/strong> (a topic on which the two man are not entirely on the same page) &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would like to know whose dumb idea it was to have Romney sit down with Bloomberg. \u00a0The man brings <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">nothing<\/span> positive to the table.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; His imprimatur could be useful to either candidates, conveying the approval of a businessman known for his common-sense and nonpartisan governing style &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LOL! \u00a0Only the New York Times believes that. \u00a0The rest of America, when they think of Bloomberg (if they think of him at all), they think of an arrogant, statist control freak from a liberal la-la land. \u00a0This was not a good move for Romney.<\/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%3D6059&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=6059\">&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=6059\"><\/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=6059\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports that Mitt Romney meet with Mayor Bloomberg: &#8220;&#8230; On Tuesday, Mitt Romney had a private breakfast with Mr. Bloomberg at the headquarters of the mayor\u2019s philanthropic foundation on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side &#8230; Over coffee and juice, the two discussed several staples of Mr. Bloomberg\u2019s agenda in Washington over the last decade: [&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%3D6059&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=6059\">&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=6059\"><\/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=6059\" 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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059","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=6059"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6065,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6059\/revisions\/6065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}