Nurse Bloomberg tries to sway Virginia Senate elections. Again.
By Norman Leahy | Monday, October 31st, 2011 | Politics, VirginiaNew York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has decided to play in Virginia’s Senate races once again, opening his wallet for six Demcoratic Senate candidates from northern Virginia because they, like him, are pro-gun control:
Five of the candidates Bloomberg supports are Democratic incumbents: John Miller, Mark Herring, Toddy Puller, Dave Marsden and George Barker. A sixth, Barbara Favola, is running for an open seat.
We re just happy to have the contribution of people who support our values, said Kiel Brunner, Marsden s campaign manager. We re concerned about Virginians safety – and that has a national impact.
This isn’t the first time Hizzoner has pumped cash into Virginia Senate contests. In 2007, Bloomberg supported, and made a campaign appearance on behalf of, Republican Jeannemarie Devolites-Davis. His presence was unable to save her campaign from a Democratic tide.
And let us not forget that Bloomberg caused a ruckus a few years back when he tried to instigate sting operations in Virginia in an attempt to stem the arms flow to NYC. Then Attorney General Bob McDonnell kindly informed the Mayor:
…that such non-law enforcement activities related to undercover illegal firearms purchases will be punishable as a felony in Virginia.
Unable to run illegal sting operations, Bloomberg resorts to trying to influence the state’s elections. He has every right to do so…just as Virginians have the right to know that the Gotham busybody really has it in for them.
And no, pro-life, pro-gun Ward Armstrong was not among the recipients of Bloomberg’s largesse. Nor, for that matter, were any Virginia Democrats outside of NoVa.
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Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Examiner contributor.
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5 Responses to "Nurse Bloomberg tries to sway Virginia Senate elections. Again."
Well when you are doing such a great job of running the little village of NYC a great man like Bloomberg has plenty of time on his hands.
Norm,
I’m glad that you mentioned Bloomberg’s undercover sting operations designed to demonstrate that Virginia was a source of illegal guns getting into New York City. Now it turns out that Bloomberg’s own cops are smuggling illegal guns into the city.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/25/us-crime-police-idUSTRE79O3ZG20111025
Gee, I wonder where in the world they ever got the inspiration to try this?
Barney Miller, perhaps? (Just kidding…)
God, I miss that show. Dietrich was by far my favorite character. He walks into the squad room, glances at the conference table and says, “Hey, where the Hell did you get the atomic bomb?” Or, Internal Affairs has him hooked up to a polygraph and the investigator asks, “where were you born?” Dietrich answers, “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.” The exasperated polygraph operator says, “he’s telling the truth!”
This is very curious news since Senator Herring and then-Delegate Marsden voted FOR House Bill 2653 in 2007 making Bloomberg sting operations a felony in Virginia.
It is also strange since Senators Barker, Herring and John Miller (31 Senators in all) voted FOR House Bill 1851 in 2009 creating a loophole in the state gun-a-month law.
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