Wow. Bloomberg ad: The NRA helped elect Bernie Sanders to Congress

[highplainsdem]

Last edited Mon Feb 24, 2020, 11:08 PM - Edit history (1)

Devastating ad, tweeted by Bloomberg adviser Tim O'Brien.

I hadn't realized the NRA backed Sanders because his opponent in that race, in which Sanders was elected to Congress for the first time, had sponsored a bill banning assault weapons.

Here's the tweet and the ad:

Link to tweet

[HarlanPepper]

1. Good.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Love the desperation out of fear Bernie's inevitable... but that's because he IS!!!!

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[David__77]

3. Sounds like that one could cut both ways.

“Wow, I guess he’s not one of those gun grabbers.”

[JudyM]

4. They bought advertising because they liked his opponent less. They weren't a donor. This is a smear.

[Deero]

5. Bloomberg Advisor

Not Sanders.

Regardless, it's about time somebody started hitting Bernie.

[highplainsdem]

15. Just corrected it. Sorry about the typo.

[Deero]

16. Happens.

[aikoaiko]

6. And with that Bernie took out a Republican House Member. You're welcome.

The NRA now loves Bernie so much they gave him D on the scorecard.

It wasn't that the NRA liked Bernie so much as they hated Peter Smith.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

7. I did not know of the connection between BS and the NRA.

My niece is a survivor (well, she survived physically . . . ) of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. If this is true (and I will check this out further), then I will NEVER vote for Sanders. But then I don't believe that he will be the candidate.

No gun-humper will ever get my vote.

[Bluepinky]

9. You'd better do more research on this.

If Bernie has a D from the NRA, he’s obviously not a gun humper.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

12. Does that "D" stand for dollars ?

Because they have given him a LOT of them.

[ramen]

23. No, it's a letter grade,

meaning that the slimeball NRA thinks Sanders gets a grade of D. That's not how you buy someone. The assertion that the NRA owns Sanders is not correct.

[Liberty Belle]

21. Sanders wants to BAN all assault weapons. See my post with his website position

which includes pretty much everything gun control advocates want.

Times have changed from long ago, when he was a rural legislator and the NRA mostly advocated for hunters, before mass murders with assault weapons became a nationwide epidemic.

[Autumn]

8. Bloom or Chris Murphy. Hmmm who do I trust? Who do I trust

Link to tweet

Chris Murphy. Yep that's the ticket, never knew Murphy to make misleading claims.

[babylonsister]

10. Murphy, absolutely. nt

[myohmy2]

11. just goes to show...

...the wide range of support Bernie can generate...

...the breadth and width of which the likes we've never seen...

...he's going to make a hell of a President...

[Desert grandma]

17. He will never win a General Election

The only states that count are Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Florida. If he can't bring those more conservative voters along, then we will be toast in the General Election. It is All about the Electoral College. We will see what he does.

[cliffside]

13. Please correct your post, Tim O'Brien is NOT an advisor to Sanders ...

"Devastating ad, tweeted by Sanders adviser Tim O'Brien."

We're better than this!

Journalist and Author Timothy O’Brien Named Senior Advisor for Mike Bloomberg’s 2020 Presidential Campaign

November 25, 2019

https://www.mikebloomberg.com/news/journalist-and-author-timothy-obrien-named-senior-advisor-for-mike-bloombergs-2020-presidential-campaign

[highplainsdem]

14. Thanks. Just corrected it. That was a typo.

[cliffside]

19. Thank you, Bloomberg and Biden are all over this issue. nt

[dalton99a]

18. Kick

[Liberty Belle]

20. Bernie now says he'll ban assault weapons & Take on the NRA and its corrupting effect on Washington.

His position has evolved on this issue as mass shootings have become common, and also as president he would be representing the entire nation, not just a rural state with lots of hunters.

Here is what his website says today; it's as liberal on promises to crack down on gun violence as you'll find:


Key Points

Take on the NRA and its corrupting effect on Washington.
Expand background checks.
End the gun show loophole. All gun purchases should be subject to the same background check standards.
Ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons. Assault weapons are designed and sold as tools of war. There is absolutely no reason why these firearms should be sold to civilians.
Prohibit high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Implement a buyback program to get assault weapons off the streets.
Regulate assault weapons in the same way that we currently regulate fully automatic weapons — a system that essentially makes them unlawful to own.
Crack down on “straw purchases” where people buy guns for criminals.
Support “red flag” laws and legislation to ensure we keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers and stalkers
Ban the 3-D printing of firearms and bump stocks

Details

We face an epidemic of gun violence in this country. A significant majority of Americans want commonsense gun reform. But the NRA, now a full-fledged, right-wing political organization, spends millions on TV and internet ads attacking candidates who dare to stand up for what voters want. We must:

Take on the NRA and its corrupting effect on Washington. The NRA has become a partisan lobbying public-relations entity for gun manufacturers, and its influence must be stopped.
Expand background checks.
End the gun show loophole. All gun purchases should be subject to the same background check standards.
Ban the sale and distribution of assault weapons. Assault weapons are designed and sold as tools of war. There is absolutely no reason why these firearms should be sold to civilians.
Prohibit high-capacity ammunition magazines.
Crack down on “straw purchases” where people buy guns for criminals.

[Eric J in MN]

24. Bernie Sanders was always for

...a ban on the sale of assault weapons.

That was his position in 1988 when he ran for Congress and lost. His position in 1990 when he ran for Congress and won by 16.5% points (meaning a last minute flyer from the NRA probably wasn’t important to his victory). His position in 1994 when he voted for the Assault Weapons Ban which President Bill Clinton signed into law.

[highplainsdem]

26. No, he was not. Sanders throughout the 1970s belonged to the radical fringe Liberty Union Party

in Vermont, and he ran twice for governor and twice for US Senate as their candidate, and they were opposed to ALL gun laws.

[eilen]

30. Is it true he voted against the Brady Bill? I heard that on the broadcast of the debate.

I was surprised.

[highplainsdem]

31. Five times, as Biden keeps reminding people.

[yaesu]

22. fake news. nt

[highplainsdem]

25. kick

[dumptrump1]

27. Bloomberg's anti gun organization also gave bernie an award of distinction

This is one area I don't agree with bloomberg on.


https://everytown.org/press/everytown-for-gun-safety-action-fund-moms-demand-action-award-2020-presidential-gun-sense-candidate-distinctions/

[emmaverybo]

28. K+R

[OliverQ]

29. And Bloomberg got Pat Toomey and Lindsey Graham

re-elected to the Senate, preventing Dems from getting a majority.

Sorry, not supporting someone who gave tens of millions to Republican trash like Toomey and Graham.

[Kaleva]

32. In other news, the NRA has been attacking Bloomberg for years.

Here is one from 2014

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/10/15/ia-3_nra_ad_bloomberg__stacy_appel_gun_control_agenda.html

Another from 2014

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/nra-puts-bloomberg-crosshairs

Here's a recent one

From 2015