Blomberg Midterm money dump -$80 million

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    danb

    danb

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    Feb 24, 2013
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    google is your friend, I am not.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/michael-bloomberg-to-spend-80-million-on-midterms-for-democrats.html

    Bloomberg will spend $80 million on relatively few races, sponsoring "moderate" centrist Democrats (at least according to Karl Rove)

    Here comes more gun control and higher taxes.

    I've focused my philanthropy partly around bipartisan gun safety, environmental and immigration reform measures, and my political giving has been focused around those priorities as well.

    In the last election, for example, I spent nearly ten million dollars to help a Republican, Pat Toomey, get re-elected in Pennsylvania. I disagree with him on many issues. But after the Newtown, Connecticut shooting, he broke with the NRA and co-wrote a bipartisan bill to close the background check loophole.
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    A lot of Moms will be demanding a lot of action....
     
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    steveh326

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    BeoBill said:
    It just annoys the Hell out of me that out of state money can buy an election like this. There oughtta be a law... :mad54:
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    so our elections are for sale to the highest bidder. I am sure our congress weasels will address this loophole immediately after they implement term limits on themselves and then prohibit themselves from being able to approve their own raises.
     
    MigraineMan

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    I wonder how difficult it is to start a lobbying group and get some of his money. I'm a registered-Dem, and I would be happy to start a "gun control" effort in Frederick County. We could have regular meetings at TMGN ... with emphasis on properly "controlling" your firearm.
     
    Decoy

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    I got into an argument with a liberal at work because he was praising Bloomberg for "trying to save our democracy" but he got offended when I asked why it's bad when "evil corporations" do the same thing. #liberallogic
     
    Bob A

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    steveh326 said:
    so our elections are for sale to the highest bidder. I am sure our congress weasels will address this loophole immediately after they implement term limits on themselves and then prohibit themselves from being able to approve their own raises.
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    . . . And when they impose the same insider-trading laws on themselves that they impose on the rest of the citizenry.

    In case you were wondering how folks like Harry Reid can retire from a government job with $83,000,000, for just one example.

    Meanwhile, Congressman Wannabee Total Wine Trone spends 14 million bucks in a failed race against beloved Jamin Raskin. Just another patriotic American, looking to serve his country. (On a platter, with an apple in its mouth.)
     
    Jim12

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    Just because Bloomberg is spending a lot of money doesn't mean his horses will win.

    Crooked Hillary spent multiples of what Donald J. Trump spent.

    And iirc, Bloomberg doesn't have a great track record in with trying to buy politicians.

    Bloomberg backed Hillary.
     
    BeoBill

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    Jim12 said:
    Just because Bloomberg is spending a lot of money doesn't mean his horses will win.

    Crooked Hillary spent multiples of what Donald J. Trump spent.

    And iirc, Bloomberg doesn't have a great track record in with trying to buy politicians.

    Bloomberg backed Hillary.
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    "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers."
     
    MaxVO2

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    Jim12 said:
    Just because Bloomberg is spending a lot of money doesn't mean his horses will win.

    Crooked Hillary spent multiples of what Donald J. Trump spent.

    And iirc, Bloomberg doesn't have a great track record in with trying to buy politicians.

    Bloomberg backed Hillary.
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    ****This is absolutely true. Also, Hillary had the *best* political consultants other peoples money could buy, a complicit media, and a LOT of very sophisticated pollsters and other folks helping to drag her sorry carcass across the finish line and she still lost to a guy who had *never* run for public office, and spent less than a 1/3rd of what she did, and had almost the entire MSM against him, along with his OWN party against him.
     
    rbird7282

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    Decoy said:
    I got into an argument with a liberal at work because he was praising Bloomberg for "trying to save our democracy" but he got offended when I asked why it's bad when "evil corporations" do the same thing. #liberallogic
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    Point out to your coworker that we don’t live in a democracy.


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    rascal

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    Jim12 said:
    Just because Bloomberg is spending a lot of money doesn't mean his horses will win.
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    1) It has a large effect on who wins

    2) It also means giver holds an IOU

    3) More importantly this $80 million is not even 25% of gun control lobby's spending for political issue advocacy. Bloomberg (and the NRA's smaller giving to campaigns this way is transparent and seen in a moment on the DEF website. The massively larger amounts raised and spent by the gun control lobby on political issue advocacy, including having candidates speak at organized events, children marches, millions spent attacking the NRA etc are virtually all opaque -- and tax deductable.
     
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