{"id":6960,"date":"2012-11-13T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2012-11-13T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T22:49:35","slug":"hes-not-going-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6960","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s not going away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayor\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Mike<\/a> is going to be out of office next year. \u00a0That <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2012\/11\/13\/michael-bloombergs-next-political-move\/\" target=\"_blank\">does not mean he&#8217;s going away<\/a> any time soon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230;\u00a0What\u2019s clear from Bloomberg\u2019s heavy spending in such a short period of time is the mayor has no plans to leave the national political stage once his third term expires next year and, in fact, seems likely to gear up rather than ratchet down his spending for those who support his agenda and against those who don\u2019t &#8230; The message from Bloomberg\u2019s world is clear: The mayor is here to stay as a political force &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I figured as much. \u00a0Fortunately, his gun control campaigns have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6942\">quite ineffective<\/a> in the past and he seems unable to grasp that the general population does not care about the issues the same way he does. \u00a0I don&#8217;t see his <em>Independence USA<\/em>\u00a0political action committee as being a game changer in the world of gun politics.<\/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%3D6960&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=6960\">&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=6960\"><\/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=6960\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Mike is going to be out of office next year. \u00a0That does not mean he&#8217;s going away any time soon: &#8220;&#8230;\u00a0What\u2019s clear from Bloomberg\u2019s heavy spending in such a short period of time is the mayor has no plans to leave the national political stage once his third term expires next year and, in [&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%3D6960&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; 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