Michael Bloomberg cleaned out his couch last weekend and found a spare $60 million for Everytown for Gun Control Safety to spend this November. At the same time, everyone can rest assured that the non-partisan Everytown will exhibit scrupulous fairness in issuing its endorsements for the fall elections. Last we heard, Everytown enjoyed about $50 … Read more
FOIA is your friend. These documents come directly from the second in command in the Land of Lincoln, the Illinois Lieutenant Governor’s office (when she’s not waiting in line to buy marijuana). First, let’s set the stage. October 28, 2019 The Lt. Governor‘s office reached out to Sara Knizhnik, who is with the Illinois Council … Read more
It’s good to have a bottomless bank account. Well, we hear it is. Anti-gun financier and presidential vanity candidate Michael Bloomberg has dropped $200 million dollars on his drive for the Democrat nomination so far. And he’s only been in the race since the middle of November. To put that in perspective, the rest of … Read more
Just kidding! The above photo is from a Moms Demand Action event in Florida (note the palm trees). Here’s the actual turnout for yesterday’s Virginia MDA lobby day: Look at them all. Almost two dozen! I think I’ve seen more people waiting to be seated at Denny’s on a Tuesday afternoon. Here the teeming throng … Read more
March For Our Lives holds itself up as a grassroots gun control org, much like Moms Demand Action. And just like the Moms, the (supposedly) student-led March For Our Lives organization gets their funding not from the little people, but from a group of big dollar donors. While the NRA and other gun rights orgs … Read more
Moms Demand Action is good at a few things. They’re good at selling their brand and getting lots of media attention (just check out how they first gained momentum). They’re also good at lobbying in state capitals, like their upcoming Virginia lobby day on 1/8/20. Those red-shirted women make for good photo ops and MDA … Read more
It should come as no surprise that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America lobbied hard against the Texas law that allowed Jack Wilson and other parishioners to defend themselves in their church. Just take a look at the “against” witness list for SB 535 Now, after the law ensured that lives were … Read more
Who doesn’t enjoy a friendly holiday gathering? The Burke/Fairfax Virginia Moms Demand Action chapter will be holding a holiday social next week. It’s listed as a public restaurant, so it’s fair game to attend. This would be a great opportunity to thank Michael Bloomberg’s minion moms in person for helping secure the new “gun sense” … Read more
As we are all aware, AstroTurf groups such as Shannon Watts’s Moms Demand Action (which is a copy cat of another movement from the early 2000’s that faded) are very good at what they do: getting attention. They are at city council meetings, county board meetings, and, as we have seen recently in districts in … Read more
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