As I was digging around through the Campaign Finance Board’s lobbying reports yesterday, I happened upon this little bon mot among “Everytown for ‘Gun Safety'” “Minnesota’s” various disclosures:
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First – to the surprise of absolutely nobody who hasn’t been marinading their head in “progressive” kool-aid – “Everytown for Gun ‘Safety'” “Minnesota” is (see the upper red rectangle) based in New York City; it is about as Minnesotan as open displays of emotion and capable professional sports (I say this so as not to jinx the Twins with unseemly optimism).
And in the lower rectangle?
They’re gone. Done. Hanging up their scolding sticks and sending their monogrammed checkbooks back to New York and jabbering away into the sunset.
This, after outspending the pro-human rights, Real Americans who support our civil liberties by a lopsided margin.
I’m sure they’ll be back for 2016, of course – if not as “Everytown”, as something else; maybe “No More Dead Children Inc” or something equally measured and rational.
But for now? It’s like the Germans racing back across the Rhine in the summer of 1944.
And that’s a good thing – if you’re on the right side.
Pooing Where They Eat: The funny part – if you’re a Real Minnesotan – is that when Bloomberg rolled into town with his armored car full of cash, he basically told the local pro-gun-confiscation group, “Protect” MN, and “Moms Want Action”, to sit down and shut up and let the competent folks do the thinking.
And so while in the past election and session Everytown disclosed a metric poop-ton of spending, as we pointed out yesterday, “Protect” MN spent not one dime on lobbying.
Again, have no fear; Bloomie will be back. So will the blow-dried slickee boys who tried to browbeat the legislators during this past session and election.
Now would be a fine time to join GOCRA and MNGOPAC, by the way. If you don’t keep Bloomberg and the gun-grabbers at bay, who will?
Given that pay scales are lower in Minnesota than in New York City, it’s surprising that a guy as financially savvy as Bloomberg didn’t hire someone here to manage things. For that matter, a guy as politically savvy as Bloomberg ought to have known better–I disagree with him on a ton of things, but he didn’t get to be Mayor for a couple of terms because he was politically dense.
Or does Bloomberg’s hiring in NY indicate that the “bench” of the gun control movement is even leaner than we’d have assumed? He’ll never fess up, but that’s one tantalizing possibility.