Bloomberg's "mayors against illegal guns", is full of criminals!!!

[virginia mountainman]

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, police and press in tow, made a very public point of “visiting the homes of gun offenders,” The Baltimore Sun reported. I guess that beat attending her arraignment in criminal court. “The mayor was charged last month with theft, perjury and misconduct after a state prosecutor’s probe,” the story continued. Dixon is a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun coalition of mayors.

“Hartford’s mayor turned himself in Tuesday on charges of having a city contractor do $40,000 in work at his home and paying for it only after being confronted by investigators,” the AP reported. Mayor Eddie A. Perez “was charged with receiving a bribe and falsifying evidence … The contractor, Carlos Costa, told investigators he believed he would be shut out of lucrative city contracts had he not done the work for free ...”

Perez is a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun coalition of ...

“Racine, Wis., Mayor Arrested On Child Porn Charge,” read the CBS2Chicago.com headline. “Gary Becker, 51, Released On Bond.”

Becker was a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun coalition ...

“Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford was arrested … on federal charges and is being held at the federal courthouse,” wrote reporter Val Walton in The Birmingham News.

“Langford accused in a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit of not disclosing $156,000 in payments … as part of a plan to secure Jefferson County financial business,” the story explained. Langford is a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun …

“A municipal court judge in this shore town found the mayor of Jersey City guilty of obstructing justice and resisting arrest in a clash with a police officer a little more than a year ago,” Jonathan Miller wrote in The New York Times. “The mayor, Jerramiah T. Healy, said in a news conference after the verdict that he had no intention of resigning his office …”

Healey is a member of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s …

“The former Detroit mayor is moving to a new home…a 15-by-10-foot county jail cell where he will spend the next 120 days for lying during a civil trial to conceal an extramarital affair,” Time Magazine reported. “ Kilpatrick resigned in September after 8 months of accusations, denials and litigation that cost the city millions of dollars …”

Kilpatrick was a member of …

“Potential jurors’ opinions of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton were mixed … during the second day of jury selection in the upcoming federal civil rights trial of Melton …” Kathleen Baydala wrote in The Clarion Ledger. “Melton accused of violating search-and-seizure laws related to role in warrantless raid five to 25 years in prison if convicted on all counts.”

Melton is a member …

“More than a year after denying it, the newly elected mayor of Portland has admitted having a sexual relationship with a male teenager in 2005,” the AP reported.

Do I even have to tell you?

And might it be fair to ask why these mayors with such apparent self control issues are so bent on controlling the rest of us?

ROFLMAO!!!!!

http://www.gunsmagazine.com/digital/G0609.htm?page=58

[marmar]

1. Thank goodness the NRA is full of fine, upstanding folk......

:eyes:

[xchrom]

2. took the words right out of my mouth. nt

[cslinger59]

7. So in all seriousness

Could you post a link to those criminals in the NRA that you are speaking of?

To me a criminal is a criminal no matter what side they are on and I would like to know whom specifically we are speaking of. I of course have a bias of being pro gun so I may very well have blinders on to some of the folks on "my sides" actions but I am always willing to be educated.

Like was said below though, it seems like corruption is just par for the political course. Drives me insane.

[pipoman]

15. Are you actually getting defensive

over this hodgepodge of anti freedom (mostly repug) mayor's bad acts? I too would like to see a laundry list like this of NRA leadership or are you just full of hyperbole?

[cslinger59]

18. No I wasn't getting defensive at all..

I am serious when I ask to see some evidence of criminal acts not out of being defensive as much as I am willing to admit I may have blinders on in terms of being pro gun and I am willing to be educated and I don't think folks should be pursuing criminal behavior no matter what side they are on.

Sorry if I came off as defensive.

[pipoman]

20. This board takes some getting used to

if you look at the right upper corner of my post you will see I was responding to post #1 not your post. Welcome to DU.

[Hoopla Phil]

16. Could you please name them rather than use that broad brush of yours?

[Captain Hilts]

3. Wow, is this lame. nt

[aquart]

4. Please. On crutches.

[Tim01]

5. Being a criminal is a side effect of being a politician. nt

[X_Digger]

6. Too Funny!! n/t

[DonP]

8. Now if the Virginia AG changes his mind and decides to indict Bloomberg ...

... on those straw purchase charges, he will be in excellent company.

I'm not sure what they NRA leadership has to do with a bunch of crooked mayors? The main difference is the NRA doesn't have the ability to levy taxes, issue contracts with tax money or lay off the cops in your town. These crooks do. I wish Daley was on that list - but one of these days.

I always wonder what the fascination with the NRA is for non-gun owners. They seem to have a cartoon character or bumper sticker level of understanding of what they are and what they do. In 2008 the NRA contributed 10 times as much to Dem candidates than the GOP run Brady Bunch, but many of those folks swear by the Brady Bunch stats. Go figure.

Of course they never send them a check, but they support what they say.

[cslinger59]

9. 800lb gorilla.

The fascination is that the NRA is, indeed, the 800lb gorilla and they do in fact have a lot of lobbying might. Most members do not give additional money besides member dues but that membership is pretty huge especially compared to a lot of other organizations.

If I were on the other side of this issue I would probably see the NRA as the boogyman too.

Chris

[Euromutt]

10. It goes the other way, too, for the Joyce Foundation

To hear many gun owners tell it, the Joyce Foundation is the anti-gun equivalent of the the way the NRA is perceived among anti-gunners: a shady and unaccountable organization, the only purpose of which is to subvert democracy by unduly influencing legislators, and with an inexhaustible supply of cash provided by its sinister, wealthy, elitist backers. All other activities these organizations engage in are either a smokescreen, or insidious means of indoctrinating people (especially children) with their pro-death/anti-freedom agenda.

It gets old really quick.

[cslinger59]

11. The thing that bothers me about organizations such as the Joyce Foundation.....

and take this for what it is worth since I am one of the "gun nuts" but If I go up to the NRA and ask for a list of membership or some form of details they can prove they have millions of members, same with smaller organizations such as the GOA etc.

The Brady Campaign, Joyce Foundation etc. all seem to be backed by small groups of very powerful folks and not by "The People" so to speak.

[spin]

12. Always remember that the true object of gun control...

is to disarm the lower classes and minorities while keeping firearms for the elite.

Since this has been discussed many times on this forum, I'll just provide links to support that argument.

Gun Control: White Man's Law by William R. Tonso
http://www.guncite.com/journals/gun_control_wtr8512.html


The Racist Roots of Gun Control by Clayton E. Cramer
http://www.firearmsandliberty.com/cramer.racism.html

[Euromutt]

17. Valid points, certainly

But there's some differences there. For starters, the Joyce Foundation is, well, a foundation rather than an association, so it's a given that they have donors, not members. Moreover, funding gun control propaganda, excuse me, "research" is only part of what the Joyce Foundation does.

On the other hand, it's not like the NRA is the epitome of a democratic organization either, and I say that as a member. For starters, you don't get to vote for the board unless you've been a member for five consecutive years, or are a Life Member. Or so I understand, given that I never got a copy of the association bylaws, and can't find them on the website either.

If you read Richard Feldman's Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist, you'll find that the bylaws make it extremely difficult for the membership to change the organization's leadership, particularly the President and the Executive Vice President/CEO (i.e. Wayne LaPierre). Said rules were instituted after part of the membership, led by Neal Knox, tried to do exactly that. Not that I have any liking for Neal Knox, but the upshot is that one is justified in wondering to which extent the NRA is run for the benefit of, and is accountable to, its dues-paying members.

[Chota]

19. NRA prevents new members from voting because

it would be possible for a bunch of new members to join and vote and take over. I'd say it's unlikely but I've seen it done before. From what I've been told very few eligible to vote actually vote. For the last several years the Bullseye community have been trying to get a few Bullseye friendly folks on the BOD. So far no luck and mostly only the annointed are elected.

A few years ago NRA was on verge of bankruptcy (sp) and was in dept, with the coming of Obama that's certainly turned around in a big way. Also as a firearms instructor I can say with coming of Obama, a lot of folks of all kinds have put a lot of money in my pocket by taking basic instruction classes and later HCP classes.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

21. He damn well should...

[virginia mountainman]

13. Amazing amouts of people, supporting a republican, ran and lead org here...

O well, ROFLMAO!!

[TheWraith]

14. That's what happens when you associate with Republicans.

I recognize many of those names--roughly three quarters are Republicans. The ones I recognize that AREN'T are Healy and Kilpatrick.