ANALYSIS/OPINION:
A flood of money from a few wealthy individuals who would like American freedom restricted is pouring into this midterm election.
As the average National Rifle Association (NRA) member gives $20 t0 $30 to the cause annually, press reports say Michael Bloomberg[1], former mayor of New York City, will spend $100 million of his $53 billion fortune on races in Congress[2] alone in this midterm election. His goal is to elect Democrats who will push his agenda.
Though he once had an “R” next to his name (maybe for “RINO”), Mr. Bloomberg[3] has openly been a Democrat for some time and his ambitions have always been for nanny-state liberalism. He famously tried to outlaw the “Big Gulp” soda in NYC, though a court shot down the ban by ruling he “violated the state principle of separation of powers.” When he was governor of New York City, he even sent agents to Virginia to attempt to entrap local gun dealers in an out-of-state sting operation.
As Mr. Bloomberg[4] prepares for a possible 2020 run for president of the United States, he is pumping so much money into this cause he is drowning the false narrative from the mainstream media that campaign donations and expenditures from gun-rights organizations outspend those who want to further restrict Second Amendment rights.
“Three individuals, two of whom are billionaires with armed security details — Michael Bloomberg[5] and Tom Steyer — and Gabby Giffords through her Super PAC, say they will spend more than $100 million collectively to sway the 2018 elections to deny Americans their Constitutional right to protect themselves via their Second Amendment rights this fall,” says Lawrence G. Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National
