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In reply to the discussion: Congratulations Mike Bloomberg one day at a time closer to a Gun-Free America [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)Again, I am not against money.
I don't begrudge money.
So why not start a thread and ask why other mega rich aren't doing their fair share.
Zucky from facebook just had a big fundraiser in thanks to Chris Christie.
Why not petitition Zucky to donate to this cause.
You could ask Alan Grayson why he doesn't do the same thing, as he is mega rich
Politics works fine when lots of individuals get together and do their own specific thing best suited.
Sort of like boxing someone in. That is the NRA and other rightwing items.
You get someone on each issue, specific.
Elizabeth Warren for instance fights the big banks.
everyone is working on the same side.
If your analogy would have been correct, billionaire Mike would have backed billionaire Mitt,
however, he didn't.
And, BTW, if you didn't know, Bernie Sanders got his senate seat with much money from
Charles Schumer (a lifetime friend (and fellow Brooklynite) heavily backing Sanders in his race.
Why would you want the NRA to continue with no one against them?
Why begrudge anyone who fights them?
After all, they are around, they still have their tax free money, and are heavily backed by the republican party.
So other people can also contribute (and Mike's Mayors against guns groups have dozens and dozens of members nationwide of other mayors).
Guns and bullets are the problem.
Which is why I say Mike is the Great Equalizer.
(and no one has to like him on any other issue, OR can like him on other issues, but all that is irrelevant).