Micheal R. Bloomberg is my hero, know why? Because he knows money talks and is going to spend $50 million this year roaring real loud to the N.R.A. He is going to out spend the N.R.A by 30 million dollars. In recent years, the N.R.A. has spent only $20 million annually on political activities. The political groups affiliated with the billionaire Koch brothers, who are seeking to help Republicans take over the Senate, have spent about $30 million in the last six months.
Michael R. Bloomberg, making his first major political investment since leaving office, plans to spend $50 million this year building a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence, an organization he hopes can eventually out-muscle the National Rifle Association, and it can be done if we elect people with a spine into office. We need to elect people into office that will ROAR against the N.R.A and their terrorist tactics.
Are we brave like a lion or are we cowards?
Since when did it make sense to value guns over people, well since valuing guns makes the N.R.A a lot more money, the N.R.A is good at marketing the fact that guns are more valuable than people, and we have bought it, hook line and sinker. We are some crazy fucks but not any longer. Micheal Bloomberg is not crazy he is a brave lion who will be roaring with us women.
Mr. Bloomberg will be fighting fire with fire and will try the same approach as the NRA to get things done. He plans on putting a large portion of his resources to work into the often-unseen field operations that have been effective for the NRA in driving the single-issue, like minded voters to the polls. Roar Mr. Bloomberg ROAR.
As a woman and a mother I will add that to my list of issues I will look for in a candidate, where do they stand on gun violence and what do they plan to do to curb gun violence. How will they vote when legislation to curb gun violence is brought in front of them, will they ROAR or purr and roll over for the NRA?
Women, and mothers in particular, will be the focus of the organizing and outreach, a path that he and his advisers have modeled after groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
The plans call for a restructuring of the gun control groups he funds, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. They will be brought under one new umbrella group called EVERYTOWN for Gun Safety.
The strategy will focus not on sweeping federal restrictions to ban certain weapons, but instead will seek to expand the background check system for gun buyers both at the state and national levels. Which is what I call sensible gun legislation, any politician that has a problem with that will not be getting my vote. Any politician that fails to ROAR will not be getting my vote, nor are they likely to get any of the women vote. We are mad and we are powerful force to be reckoned with, stand down or stand beside us and ROAR, it is your choice.
The group will zero in on 15 target states, from places like Colorado and Washington State, where gun control initiatives have advanced recently, to territory that is likely to be more hostile like Texas, Montana and Indiana. They have set a goal of signing up one million new supporters this year on top of the 1.5 million they already have.
My Govern Martin O'Malley of Maryland has already signed into law some of the most restrictive gun laws in the country, for that I thank him for being brave enough to stand up the bullies of the N.R.A. Martin O'Malley has ROARED against the NRA.
Mr. Bloomberg has run negative ads against incumbent Democrats whom he views as insufficiently supportive of gun control and that has led to some tension with the national Democratic leaders. Well then Democrats get a spine and support sensible gun control legislation and stand with us women and mothers, after all we are one of your largest voting blocks, ROAR with us and we will come out in droves to make sure you are elected into office.
You hear that Democrats, droves of roaring women will be out making sure you are voted into office if you will for once show some spine and stand-up for what is right and show us our children are more valuable than guns and the N.R.A's money.
ROAR for our children, we are lionesses who only want to protect our cubs.
Showing his desire to work with both parties, Mr. Bloomberg is bringing on a new advisory board with prominent Republican and Democratic figures. Tom Ridge, the former Pennsylvania governor and Homeland Security secretary under President George W. Bush; Eli Broad, the philanthropist; Warren Buffett, the investor; and Michael G. Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both Mr. Bush and President Obama, will all be board members.
His financial commitment to reducing gun violence could grow. When asked how much he was willing to spend, he tossed out the $50 million figure out as if he were describing the tip he left on a restaurant check.
It makes me happy to see that Mr. Bloomberg knows how to make his money ROAR for the betterment of society. Thank you Mr. Bloomberg for ROARING against the N.R.A.
“I put $50 million this year, last year into coal, $53 million into oceans,” he said with a shrug, describing his clean energy and sustainable fishing initiatives. “Certainly a number like that, $50 million. Let’s see what happens.”..Yes let's see what happens.
The key to whether they can be effective, the mayor and his advisers said, will be turning out female voters, the sought-after swing bloc that has been pivotal in recent elections.
We women are powerful voting bloc and we know it. We can make you OR break you, look what happened to Mitt Romney and his binders full of women, obviously those women failed to vote for Mitty boy and he lost because us women do not vote for someone that dismisses us that way.
We are women and we will ROAR with our votes, now do you want us to ROAR for you or against you, you decide with your stance on sensible gun legislation how we women will ROAR.
“Right now, women, when they go to the polls, they vote on abortion, they vote on jobs, they vote on health care,” said Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action. “We want one of those things to be gun violence prevention.”
Exactly Shannon Watts, exactly, this mom and many others have just added gun violence prevention to our list. We are WOMEN HEAR US ROAR.
Micheal Bloomberg has earned a place in Heaven because he will be roaring his way in.