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Showing Original Post only (View all)Bloomberg Spends $764,232.35 Buying Oregon Background Check Bill [View all]
Bloomberg Spends $764,232.35 Buying Oregon Background Check Bill
Posted on August 24, 2015
NEWTOWN, Conn -(Ammoland.com)- Gun control groups like to talk about the power and spending of the gun lobby.
But what do the actual numbers show?
This week, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission released lobbyist expenditures through June where the public policy issue before the state was universal background checks for all firearms transfers. Guess what group was at the very top of the list and by a huge margin?
It was the Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund that spent $764,232.35 in the reporting period covered, eclipsing even the Oregon teachers lobbying arm by $484,055.
How much did ALL the pro-Second Amendment groups spend? Ready?
It was a grand total of $88,000.
http://www.ammoland.com/2015/08/bloomberg-spends-764232-35-buying-oregon-background-check-bill/#axzz3jqIiKtIi
Posted on August 24, 2015
NEWTOWN, Conn -(Ammoland.com)- Gun control groups like to talk about the power and spending of the gun lobby.
But what do the actual numbers show?
This week, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission released lobbyist expenditures through June where the public policy issue before the state was universal background checks for all firearms transfers. Guess what group was at the very top of the list and by a huge margin?
It was the Michael Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund that spent $764,232.35 in the reporting period covered, eclipsing even the Oregon teachers lobbying arm by $484,055.
How much did ALL the pro-Second Amendment groups spend? Ready?
It was a grand total of $88,000.
http://www.ammoland.com/2015/08/bloomberg-spends-764232-35-buying-oregon-background-check-bill/#axzz3jqIiKtIi
For those that can't accept this as fact because it comes from a pro-gun source, heres an egg:
http://www.golocalpdx.com/news/top-10-biggest-spending-lobbyist-groups-during-oregons-2015-legislative-ses
Why does Bloomberg have to spend nearly ten times as much in lobbying money as the pro-gun lobby, if this is what the voters wanted in the first place?
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Theres a difference between namecalling, and describing accurately, many gun control proponents...
beevul
Aug 2015
#19
You were alerted on by guess who using the usual passive aggressive alert distortions.
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#22
This is the wrong place for that post; you want 'Ask the Administrators', found at...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#45
And thanks in return for *your* helpful hint! I altered the post title #47...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#48
Shannon Watts helped to defeat Dems, why are you supporting her at DU?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#47
Ahem. This is DEMOCRATIC Underground, not Gun Control Underground...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#50
I voted for Ed Markey and Liz Warren, both quite vocal gun control supporters
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#56
"MDA did not work...to get a republican elected" They worked to get Dems *un*-elected...
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#70
"MDA did not work against pryor or begich to get a republican elected" Bullshit!
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2015
#67
Watts did not get *anyone* pro-control elected in those races. Where's the win?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#57
Bloomberg won, alright- just not the win his credulous supporters think he wanted
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#59
The NRA salutes you! Ammoland salutes you! Have you informed Ted Nugent of your brilliance?
Fred Sanders
Aug 2015
#21
Both Bloomberg and Tom Steyer as billionaires made a difference in Oregon's election in 2014...
cascadiance
Aug 2015
#29