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Bloomberg Is Starting His Campaign With A Big Asset--His Gun-Control Group's Email List
His campaign is temporarily renting the addresses of Moms Demand Actions supporters.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially entered the 2020 Democratic race Sunday with a potent asset: The vast trove of email addresses amassed by Moms Demand Action, the nonpartisan gun control advocacy organization hosted under the umbrella of Everytown for Gun Safety, which Bloomberg co-founded and largely finances.
The leaders of Moms Demand Action state chapters and local groups received the news from Aimee Tavares, a senior national organizing director for the group, who sent an email roughly three and a half hours after news broke that Bloomberg would formally announce his candidacy. Given his unique role in launching Everytown, his leadership in advancing the cause of gun safety, and the significant investments hes made in helping to grow our movement, Mayor Bloombergs campaign is temporarily renting access to our list of supporters so they can communicate his plans for achieving our shared goal of a nation free from gun violence, Tavares wrote.
Tavares added the campaign would not retain access to Moms Demand Actions email list at the conclusion of Bloombergs bid. Members of the group would be under no obligation to take any action in response to Bloombergs campaign missives, and that it is entirely up to our volunteers how they spend their volunteer time in this election and which candidates they choose to support, up and down the ballot, she wrote.
Tavares email gave no endorsement of Bloombergs candidacy, but noted that his participation will ensure that our issue remains at the forefront during the remainder of primary season. In a Twitter thread announcing his candidacy, Bloomberg shared that he had founded the largest gun safety group in history alongside a photo of him posing with Moms Demand Action volunteers.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/michael-bloomberg-2020-everytown-moms-demand-action-guns-emails/
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially entered the 2020 Democratic race Sunday with a potent asset: The vast trove of email addresses amassed by Moms Demand Action, the nonpartisan gun control advocacy organization hosted under the umbrella of Everytown for Gun Safety, which Bloomberg co-founded and largely finances.
The leaders of Moms Demand Action state chapters and local groups received the news from Aimee Tavares, a senior national organizing director for the group, who sent an email roughly three and a half hours after news broke that Bloomberg would formally announce his candidacy. Given his unique role in launching Everytown, his leadership in advancing the cause of gun safety, and the significant investments hes made in helping to grow our movement, Mayor Bloombergs campaign is temporarily renting access to our list of supporters so they can communicate his plans for achieving our shared goal of a nation free from gun violence, Tavares wrote.
Tavares added the campaign would not retain access to Moms Demand Actions email list at the conclusion of Bloombergs bid. Members of the group would be under no obligation to take any action in response to Bloombergs campaign missives, and that it is entirely up to our volunteers how they spend their volunteer time in this election and which candidates they choose to support, up and down the ballot, she wrote.
Tavares email gave no endorsement of Bloombergs candidacy, but noted that his participation will ensure that our issue remains at the forefront during the remainder of primary season. In a Twitter thread announcing his candidacy, Bloomberg shared that he had founded the largest gun safety group in history alongside a photo of him posing with Moms Demand Action volunteers.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/michael-bloomberg-2020-everytown-moms-demand-action-guns-emails/
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Bloomberg Is Starting His Campaign With A Big Asset--His Gun-Control Group's Email List (Original Post)
demmiblue
Nov 2019
OP
I'm even less enthused about a Bloomberg nominee as I am about a Steyer nominee.
CrispyQ
Nov 2019
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CrispyQ
(36,552 posts)1. I'm even less enthused about a Bloomberg nominee as I am about a Steyer nominee.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Amishman
(5,559 posts)2. Yup, do not want. We have so many good candidates we don't need him
Why in the world would we run another New York billionaire pseudo Republican? (MB never won an election as a Democrat, but did as a Republican).
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)3. Ha! I called it here at DU a week before he announced:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172209099
I don't *think* Bloomberg started his puppet gun control groups for use as contact lists...
......but undoubtedly his campaign underlings have access to every contact MAIG/MMM/Everytown for Gun Safety/MDA
have or ever had, and are trawling them as I write this.
No doubt Bloomie will poll well with the quiet (and some not-so-quiet) suburban racists that either
approved (or simply elided) his stop-and-frisk policies and racism towards Muslims
......but undoubtedly his campaign underlings have access to every contact MAIG/MMM/Everytown for Gun Safety/MDA
have or ever had, and are trawling them as I write this.
No doubt Bloomie will poll well with the quiet (and some not-so-quiet) suburban racists that either
approved (or simply elided) his stop-and-frisk policies and racism towards Muslims
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden