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Politico: Obama Team Coordinated Gun Control Efforts With Mayor Bloomberg

Jan. 28, 2013 3:58pm
Politico: Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina Coordinated Gun Message With Mayor Michael Bloomberg

This photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 shows Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina at the Chicago headquarters. (Photo: AP)

Do you ever feel like matters become top-priority political issues practically overnight, with politicians across the country utilizing the same phrases, stories, and themes to drive their points home?

In the case of gun control, there seems to be a new narrative that hunting is an activity protected by the U.S. Constitution, but that guns deemed too big or threatening for hunters will be banned.  In the case of linguistic synchronization, the phrase “gun control” appears to be falling from favor in left-leaning circles, only to be replaced by “reducing gun violence.”

It’s hardly a secret that top politicians meet to discuss their plans, but Politico has confirmed that President Obama’s campaign manager met with gun control advocate Mayor Michael Bloomberg to “coordinate” the latest issue:

Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, who will chair the relaunched, tax-exempt version called Organizing for Action, visited New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office at City Hall last week to coordinate the fight for gun control legislation, POLITICO has learned.

Aides to Bloomberg, one of the faces of gun control nationally, had already been working with Vice President Joe Biden’s task force on a gun control bill before it was recently unveiled.

But Messina spearheads Obama’s political arm, which has been established outside the boundaries of the Democratic National Committee and has listed gun control as one of its coming priorities, and Bloomberg has already made clear he’s willing to spend from his personal fortune as a counterbalance to the National Rifle Association.

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DNC Executive Director Patrick Gaspard attended the meeting as well.  [Emphasis added]

No details were given on the content of the meeting.

Bloomberg, who has also implemented various trans fat, smoking, and sugary beverage bans during his tenure as mayor, has been a supporter of stricter gun control measures for years.  However, after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, he appears to have made the issue a top priority.

“This should be [Obama's] number one agenda,” Bloomberg said back in December.  “He’s president of the United States…Nobody questions the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms.  But we don’t think the founding fathers had the idea that every man, woman and child could carry an assault weapon.”

(H/T: WeaselZippers)

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Comments (58)

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  • Daddy Hawg
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:20pm

    What an impatient gungho group those libs are. They haven’t completed taking dismantling the Second Amendment and they are already going after the first.

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  • DougHuffman
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:05pm

    Doomberg is impeached on gun-control. At Drudge, “BLOOMBERG REFUSES TO DISARM”

    MOLON LABE Fly Lord

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  • elosogrande
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:53pm

    You don’t reduce gun violence by reducing the number of guns on the street. You reduce gun violence by reducing the number of violent people on the street, and you do it by any means necessary.

    The killers and would-be killers have to go – life in prison or whatever. That will eliminate the majority of the gun violence in America.

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    • drs1969
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:23pm

      3 strike laws have done that, already. This is about stripping the honest citizens’ rights. Bloomberg is just another Communist(Jewish Bolshevik).

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    • bumpkin
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 11:07pm

      Shoot them to the moon! One way ticket to outer space. Explore where no man has gone before! ZOOM! Yes, I know- trashing the universe…

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      bumpkin  
  • Zipit
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:41pm

    NYC! Bloomberg! Why not? It only makes sense. Start with the dumbest, most ignorant, gullable, and needy people in the country, and begin your march towards the confiscation of guns there! Good luck!

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:31pm

    If you care about your RKBA, please encourage The Blaze to add this link to their website! It is the easiest way to track the 50+ bills of firearms legislation and contact your elected US representatives available online: http://www.popvox.com/blog/2013/issue-spotlight-firearms-113th/

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  • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:22pm

    I’m glad the government is not going to ban my 308 caliber 700 remington fitted with a sniper scope, with a effective range of 600-700 yards.

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    • LakeHartwellSailor
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:42pm

      Yep, great rifle….mine is chambered in 30-06….and has a few deer to its credit. But give it time, and it will be outlawed if the left continues this momentum. In fact, I am surprised it has not been named in DiFi’s proposed legislation by virtue that it is “camoflaged”….and isn’t that a “military characteristic”? Heck, her proposal already puts 4 of my weapons in the “banned” catagory.

      But let us not forget that the 2nd Amendment is there NOT to protect our right to hunt, but to protect us from a tyrannacle government.

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    • TRUTHNEWSOPS
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 6:43pm

      It’s not about the “list”…the list is a test…ever poke a snake to see just how far you can push it before it strikes??

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      TRUTHNEWSOPS  
    • Outlaw_Josey_Wales
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:14pm

      Everybody should own a 700 remington with a high power scope. They pick their weapon, we pick our weapon and we pick the time, place and distance.

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    • mgh999
      Posted on February 1, 2013 at 8:52am

      While I favor a nice 338 Lapua. What’s better than 300 grains, 1500 ft/lbs at 1200 yards with a 0.5 MOA? Variety is good.

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  • bigbear_awake
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:11pm

    http://conservativevideos.com/2013/01/journalist-accosted-by-security-over-mayor-bloomberg-gun-control-question/

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  • Bonnieblue2A
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:02pm

    Bloomberg’s security accosts journalist for asking the NYC Mayor if he’ll disarm:

    http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/01/28/EXCLUSIVE-Journalist-Accosted-By-Security-Over-Mayor-Bloomberg-Gun-Control-Question

    Neo-Facismism can no longer hide its face and two of those faces are Bloomberg and Obama. The laws are for the little people.

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  • ThePirateRagnar
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 5:01pm

    Any chance someone out there might use a little gun violence on Bloomberg? Any crazies need a good cause?

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:59pm

    Jim Messina, Barrack Obama-poster boys for pansies.

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  • theBru
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:44pm

    Maybe we should all just show up on the white house lawn one day for a picnic with oblameaux and have a discussion about how things really need to be run…show him a little common sense, since he doesn’t have any…we will even let him use his teleprompter, that way he can stay on track about what we are discussing…and, maybe, he will understand that guns are not just for hunting these days…that what the Constitution says, is what it means, not to be misunderstood or misinterpreted by some fast talking left-handed wanna-be hip-hopping hoop shooting foreigner…

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  • intercepter
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:44pm

    I believe Aholes mikey and barry are going to lie and do whatever else they need to do to get their way
    and of course throw in ol’ lying joey ,,these guys need to be called liars and not mis speakers
    they don’t care about those kids being killed ,they were nothing more to a means to an end for them
    I sit back and think ,yeah they think they are going to take our guns ,my thinking is ,there are too many people that know how to make guns out there ,that the next best gun hasn’t been made yet ,,,you know like the old moon shiners ,,,,shiners had fast cars ,then the cops got fast cars ,so the shiners made even faster ,,its all relative to most everything in life ,,how did the song go ,,you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run

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    • drs1969
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:30pm

      Newtown was the perfect distraction from Benghazi. Hillary had been in hiding for 2 weeks when it happened. If not for that, I’d swear, w/ the speed they jumped on it, you’d think they knew it was coming.
      Don’t forget Benghazi.

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  • spirited
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:42pm

    “Nobody questions the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms”-Bloomberg

    >Wanna make a (legal) bet? –You Lie!

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  • grimmster
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:38pm

    Molon Labe,if you dare…….

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    grimmster  
  • term limits for congress
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:37pm

    Next, if you are a registered gun owner, your name will be given to your health insurance company and you can pay extra (like a smoker) for having a gun. New York first – then redistributed to all of us.

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    term limits for congress  
  • iceburg1957
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:33pm

    “Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves”-William Pitt (The Younger)

    For our well meaning friends on the left that vastly mistake the second amendment as either, a law that merely guarantees the military the right to have firearms when not engaging in war, or is somehow a vaunted license for hunters and sportsmen; we offer this notion, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the fourth branch of government, a “fail-safe” guarantee so that tyranny never transforms our great republic into something that more closely resembles a liberal fascist state. Throughout history, every nation that has restricted the right of citizens to bear weapons of any type, has suffered an inevitable downfall, before this liberation takes place however, great suffering and subjugation precede. In order for an insecure government to control its people, two things must happen. First, the idea of a restriction must convey necessity, or the idea that for the nation to prosper, the restriction must happen. To associate an unfavorable restriction with necessity, associations with a pitied or defenseless group are generally made such as children, the elderly, and the less fortunate. Second, the freedom with that is to be restricted must be demonized. Our country has not been immune to these trends either, we have endured them before. The alien and sedition acts, the forced relocation of native Ameri

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  • civilwarcometh
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:30pm

    Here’s a good idea. LOL.http://weaselzippers.us/2013/01/28/white-house-petition-calls-for-secret-service-to-be-replaced-by-gun-free-zone-signs/

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    • dosdelgados
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:39pm

      As much as I am loathe to register with whitehouse.gov, that is one petition I will actually consider signing.

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      dosdelgados  
  • RDavis49
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:15pm

    “One of the biggest factors is going to be how the media shapes debates. If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it,” he said.

    Aaaahhhh, but I suppose it’s okay for the Main Stream Media to bully and bash Republican members who disagree with the Socialist Democrats. This is such a hypocritical and bias president…. What he wants is to discredit one of few and even semi-only news media outlets in the country. Wouldn’t that be just dandy for his socialist agenda? And I can’t believe that some Americans actually buy off on this sort of BS talk. If Fox News holds a conservative Republican’s feet to the fire for being suckered and going along with this socialist administration, then I applaude them….

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  • GhostOfJefferson
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:13pm

    Whereas the middle finger of firearms owners is being coordinated across the web and in real life meetings. So, their team of a couple of hundred tops, and our team of millions. Guess who wins.

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    • OniKaze
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:46pm

      Well, my friend…. They will…

      They may only have about 100 – 200 people, but some of those people call the shots… Sure we may have millions, but of those millions, who would be willing to stand up and actually fight to the death for our rights?? Not many that I know of…

      I can count on one hand the number of people I personally know that would “fight back” against tyranny.

      Its a shame, but will all of our “support”, most of it is pretty hallow, where the people backing them, are more than willing to sacrifice anything on the alter of bigger government.

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    • drs1969
      Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:36pm

      You need to remember that the communists came for dissenters in the middle of the night. Your goal should be to take as many w/ you as you can, because those dissenters usually ended up dead, one way or another.
      IMO, this whole thing is being orchestrated to distract from Benghazi.

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  • barber2
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:09pm

    Of course the Left co-ordinates EVERYTHING. How do you think Obama got droned into America ? By the International Left . They are just one big happy, Far Left family. This includes the media : the BBC, NPR,The New York Times, etc. They all go back to the International Labour Movement. The OWS is an international anti-capitalist movement. Conservatives apparently don’t have a chance anymore because the Left is so ORGANIZED – from ” communities ” all the way to countries .

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  • noslave
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:08pm

    GEE WOULD OBAMA STOOP TO A PROPAGANDA??office of disinformation??with his crew of obedient mutts(gibbs,messina,cutter &axelrod) AT THE HEAD?? WITH A 501C EXEMPTION no way?? hes a messiah ??walks on water? bite your toungue to think he wants to be a dsictator??

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:08pm

    Why is this such a shock?

    They coordinate their efforts to pass unread legislation forged in the dark of the night. All of their deeds done on the fly or the quiet or in the dark so they can escape their criminal actions. They forget that all deeds so done will come out in full measure in due time.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:07pm

    Big surprise the collectivist wants to collect all our firearms,he’ll attack at every angle possible and we’re seeing it here with this story. Barry controls the banks and all of a sudden banks don’t want to deal with gun makers. Retailers have stopped selling certain types of ‘scary assault weapons’ and on and on. He can’t get around the second amendment so he writes several unconstitutional EO’s. He isn’t going to stop and after he’s long out of power another dumb @ss collectivist will pick up where this evil ant American sob left off.

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  • Too_Far_Gone
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:05pm

    They can both go to h e I I ..

    Detach people ..

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  • Cavallo
    Posted on January 28, 2013 at 4:03pm

    Fascists of the same scales slither together. Not really shocking. They run PR campaigns like Soviet Block Bolsheviks. The problem is that stupid people buy into them.

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    Cavallo  
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