Bloomberg Starts ‘Super PAC,’ Seeking National Influence

[SecularMotion]

Source: NY Times

Seeking to reshape a national political debate he finds frustratingly superficial, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York is plunging into the 2012 campaign in its final weeks, creating his own “super PAC” to direct millions of dollars in donations to elect candidates from both parties who he believes will focus on problem solving.

Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire and a registered independent, expects to spend from $10 million to $15 million of his money in highly competitive Congressional, state and local races.

The money would be used to pay for a flurry of advertising on behalf of Republican and Democratic candidates who support three of his biggest policy initiatives: legalizing same-sex marriage, enacting tougher gun laws and overhauling schools.

Among those Mr. Bloomberg will support are former Gov. Angus King, an independent running for the United States Senate in Maine; State Senator Gloria Negrete McLeod, who is challenging a fellow Democrat, Representative Joe Baca of California, who the mayor believes has been weak on gun-control; and Representative Bob Dold, a Republican from Illinois who has backed gun-control measures.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/nyregion/bloomberg-forming-super-pac-to-influence-2012-races.html?_r=1&hp

[rurallib]

1. can't these rich fuckers just go away

and quit meddling in our lives?

[kooljerk666]

3. I agree..............

him & his stop & frisk private army can rot in hell.

I hate the 1% more than ALMOST anybody on our "enemy list".

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

14. The endless mayoralty...

This dude's term can't end soon enough and I'll vote for anyone who promises to rip up bike paths.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Throwing away his money.

Good luck with finding moderates and problem-solvers.

[DainBramaged]

4. Mayor Nanny squeaks

[Liberalagogo]

5. Let's see

The money would be used to pay for a flurry of advertising on behalf of Republican and Democratic candidates who support three of his biggest policy initiatives: legalizing same-sex marriage, enacting tougher gun laws and overhauling schools.

Good luck with finding Rethugs serious about ANY of those issues.

[PoliticAverse]

6. This Super Pac should be stopped and frisked. n/t

[Union Scribe]

7. Excellent! +1 nt

[TPaine7]

8. I would love to see this authoritarian thug spend his wealth trying to get national laws passed

regulating the maximum sizes of soda servings.

It would be beautiful, poetic, self-punishing act of fascism.

[graham4anything]

9. GO MAYOR MIKE-YOU CAN BREAK THE NRA-you got more money than them...WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

I have been hoping for LIBERAL DEMOCRAT (and who disguised as meek independent to get elected) Mike Bloomberg
for justice and a sane gun policy.

He ain't running, but he will have your back if you break the NRA.

the only thing they have is a biggggggggggggggggggggggg mouth........................
only 4.3 million people out of 320 USA population Just 1.5% are in the NRA (same 1.5% that listens to Rush and OLirely...

98.5 don't tune in Fox and a plethora of people want sane gun control

Mike Bloomberg has billions to spend on his issues

Told you the su-su-su-su-sugar soda ban was just a start-me-up for something bigger

Now if the NRA will blackmail a candidate, we have meek Mayor Mike on our side. THANK GOD FOR THAT!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

this shall in 2014 lead to newer better gun laws, and to think it comes from mild mannered meek Mayor Mike

[TPaine7]

10. Personally, I oppose fascist dictators telling us how large our soda servings can be,

and I don't even order sodas at restaurants.

I also don't think that a blowhard 1%er should be able to impost NYC's gun laws on America.

And I can't imagine anyone who values freedom or basic American values backing the thug behind NYC's racist and unconstitutional stop and frisk regime. I guess some people will support any lowlife who opposes guns (excepting those used to protect him on his subjects taxes, of course).

[graham4anything]

12. name calling is so childish. Guns and bullets and the NRA kill. No 2 ways about it.

btw-the NYC police department is an entity amongst itself

its like the idiots who backed nader thinking both sides are alike

would you want the far right Giuliani or worse, or Mayor Mike, who has battled the police department and has attempted to stop
the racism of 40 and 51 shots per dead person.

and the lowlifes who kill are the legal guns.

NRA backers are bullies. The NRA is a bully pulpit.

4.3 out of 320 million are the # of NRA members. Same as Rush Limbaugh listeners (radio average).

No, I am on the side of MY 1st amendment right to MY life and liberty and the pursuit of MY happiness.
Worrying that a theatre I go in, or a restaurant I go to will have a legal gun owner get drunk and start firing because of nothing is not my right to free assembly.

Love people who conflate different things that have no basis in what is real

It's LEGAL guns that kill, not illegal ones. We need to make MORE security, so the gun(anyones) don't come inside, except in ones personal homes.

And YES we need a nanny.

and lumping all the people with money is as worse as lumping another group as stereotype.

same as agism, racism, sexism.

And with the person who is a criminal because the mafia inserts drugs into the ghettos and poor neighborhoods needs to find that guns aren't glorious- we can help those without to help themselves by more schools, more jobs and more $$$$ funds for the lower class.
Forget the middle class, the lower class are even worse off.

remember what Obama's idol, FDR said-
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future

I am not into guns and the idolization of them because just 1.5% of America is part of the NRA bully pulpit.
They need to be removed from tax free status, and let's find out just who is supporting them.

And sometime after Obama is reelected, then Hillary45 is in office (maybe with Janet Reno back at the forefront, a true American patriot...we can find the time when guns/bullets and the NRA are obsolete.

(when I play mini-golf, I get my putter and ball at the place.
gun lovers can pick up a gun at the shooting range (and you don't need real bullets)
gun collectors can hang them on the wall. Hell, I don't see stamp collectors packing stamps in a bar, do you?
hunters can marvel at the wonderful creatures God created (the bear and the deers and the antelopes)

and the world can be safe from the LEGAL guns (like the colorado shooter had, like the columbine kids had, like all the senseless acts of a legal gun spouse killing another spouse in a fit of rage, or killing their kid who sneaks in the house at 2am after being out on a date.

You call this civilized? Legal guns are worse.

and the name calling

America's values are WE ARE ALL EQUAL- and that includes everyone even the 1% you know.
We want them to pay their fair share, however, they are the same people as you and me. Stop the division, that is what actually is a republicantealibertarian thing to do.

Guns are not democratic. Just ask Trey when that cold blooded assasssin shot him dead blank after neurotically stalking him for miles and days and Trey had no weapon.

Zimmerman is the poster boy of legal guns. Trey had none. I weep for Trey. I don't see the NRA weeping for Trey.



The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

mayor mike will add more to those with too little.

[TPaine7]

16. "name calling is so childish... the lowlifes who kill are the legal guns. NRA backers are bullies"

And that's where I stopped reading.

[graham4anything]

18. wouldn't surprise me that you don't want anyone arguing with your bully opinion

all the NRA and the bullies have is their mouthpiece attempting to make 4.3 million out of 320
have their way.

remember-the supreme court that ratified what the bulllies in the pro-gun lobby want, also ratified the corporation as a person. Some day both shall be gone.

We shall have a glorious new Supreme Court (I would personally like Eric Holder to be the one to someday replace a retiring Clarence Thomas).
(sigh...it is probably unrealistic to expect Janet Reno can be named to Scotus, as they seem to only pick people in their 40s/50s/possibly 60s. One helleva American Patriot she is though.

It would be something if Hillary45 picked Mike Bloomberg as her VP choice though, make double history (a woman president and a Jewish VP...that would be truly historic.
And Bloomberg could help finance it so money would be no object.

I love the irony though of your post. You call Mr. Bloomberg every name in the book, then you don't like the word bully, which 1.5%(gun loving NRA) is, does.

Me thinks the NRA groupies are scared of Meek Mayor Mike.
Isn't it funny- the PEN (that signs the checks) is mightier than the sword (gun) after all.



liberals=peace peace=no weapons mass destruction on the streets of the USA = guns/no=
bullets/no = no/NRA = peace and love


btw-NYC is perhaps the safest large city in the world. Give me love, give me peace, give me more security to stop the Zimmerman's of the world.
Let's make the streets as safe as it is in an airport.
Isn't the goal to be safe? If the gun is not allowed inside anywhere but a private home,
then NO gun will be found there, providing there are enough ways to allow any person at all the right to know the gun is outside the perimeter, looking to get in.

thank you very much. (in the voice of Eric Idle in his oh so amusing song he wrote...)

[eyewall]

11. It won't help to back any republicans,

they aren't allowed to vote their conscience once they're elected. They can only support the party line.

[graham4anything]

13. it will show timid democrats they can vote against the NRA that someone has their back

WE have been waiting for a benefactor like this for years and years

and remember- the NRA is the single most influencial lobby group the world has ever seen.
And only 4.3 million members out of 325 million US Population. Just 1.5.
98.5% of all America is NOT a member of the NRA.

in the long run (and politics is a 9 step ahead chess match), democrats will know they can speak out without worry.
Why do you think dems (especially those moderate), do not speak out? They are scared of the NRA.
Liberals are being gagged because of the NRA and other groups.

this will break that spell, because if someone with MORE money than the NRA fights them, they can be defeated.
And so will the Peter King's (Republican LI NY) at some point.

and then more and more it will happen also on other issues and liberals should not like guns anyhow.
If you believe in peace, then one should believe in no guns. imho

[NaturalHigh]

15. Should I stock up on soda?

[OldHippieChick]

17. I think the Mayor has been drinking

a big Gulp-sized Kool-aid and is on a mega-ego sugar high. Tsk tsk There oughta be a law ...