Congresswoman Karen Handel is facing a challenge from Lucy McBath, but she is facing some pretty incredible campaign spending numbers. Year to date donations by Bloomberg’s Everytown for this race.
Canal Partners Media: $1,840,250.00
Siegel Strategies, LLC: $1,959,907.81
The Pivot Group, Inc.: $1,938,907.81
Bully Pulpit Interactive, LLC: $45,500.00
Total: $5,782,564
This is an incredible about of money for Bloomberg to put into one race.…
Michael Bloomberg’s gun control Everytown is already investing heavily in the midterm elections, but they announced another $5 million in 15 House races. There is a normal wave for the party that doesn’t hold the presidency. Bloomberg’s Everytown and the media is likely to interpret any pick up by the Democrats as a win for gun control advocates.…
Michael Bloomberg “has approved a plan to pour at least $80 million into the 2018 election” to give Democrats control of the US House of Representatives. Note this doesn’t include money Bloomberg is putting in pushing gun control issues.
This reminds us of Robert Reich’s recent claims about NRA campaign spending: “The National Rifle Association is a special interest group with a stranglehold on the Republican Party.…
In 2015, Bloomberg spent $2 million just on two state Senate races to flip the control of the Virginia state Senate. The announcement of a new $1 million only includes initial money directly from Everytown and not the side donations that Bloomberg makes directly to Democrats. One has to be very careful not to automatically assume that just because Bloomberg has previously not gotten a lot of return to his money that he will be in the same position this time. …
Michael Bloomberg continues pouring tons money into pushing gun control. Last November he spent $28 million on his two initiatives in Nevada and Maine. From 2013 to 2016, Bloomberg donated a total of $48 million to candidates running for federal office. The NRA contributed a measly $2.1 million. Now Bloomberg is going to spend $25 million going after concealed carry laws. …
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This year, Bloomberg got a background check initiative onto the ballots of Maine and Nevada. Given the supposed 90% support that the media tells us that there is for these polls and the massive financial support provided by Bloomberg, one would think that these initiatives would be slam dunks. Yet, Bloomberg lost in Maine by 4 percent, and won in Nevada by just 0.8 percent. …
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Dr. John Lott had a new op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer on the truly massive amount of money that Michael Bloomberg is spending pushing gun control.
If it wasn’t for Michael Bloomberg’s billions, there wouldn’t be much of a gun-control movement.
…This year, Bloomberg got a background check initiative onto the ballots of Maine and Nevada.
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