By AWR Hawkins
Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- When the Oregon Senate passed expanded background checks on April 14 2015, it marked a change from 2013 and 2014, when the same type of legislation was taken up but defeated without even making it to the floor for a vote.
What was the difference in 2015? One huge differences was the influx of Michael Bloomberg’s money into the state, which showed itself not only in the establishment of an apparatus to help gun control candidates get elected but also in gifts to gun control senator Chuck Riley (D-Hillsboro).
Riley received considerable financial backing from Bloomberg-funded Everytown for Gun Safety in order to unseat gun control opponent former senator Bruce Starr (R-Hillsboro). It was Starr who had defeated background checks when they came up in 2013 and 2014.
According to OregonLive, Bloomberg-funded Everytown began setting up “robust” field staffs in April 2014 to help gun control candidates navigate the last months of the election cycle, leading up to November. Bloomberg did this same thing in “10 other states,” but chiefly realized gains from this tactic in Oregon and Washington.
In addition to these staffs, Bloomberg-funded Everytown gave money to senator Chuck Riley, who was able to unseat senator Starr and vote “yes” for expanded background checks on April 14 2015.
September 2014 estimates reported Riley received around $22,000 from Bloomberg-funded Everytown, but when the Oregon Secretary of State released official campaign donation figures, they showed that Riley actually received $75,000 from the Bloomberg-funded group.
While it is unclear how much total money Bloomberg spent between field staffs and Everytown gifts to Riley, it is certain he had pledged up to $50 million nationwide to secure more gun control. And in Oregon this approach gave Bloomberg a senator he, Gabby Giffords, and Mark Kelly can trust [read own] to vote “yes” every time the call for more gun control on law-abiding citizens comes up.
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Bloomberg is a PIG and nothing but a PIG that uses his money to take away our Freedoms one piece at a time, and any Politician that takes his money is just as big a Pig as he is, when are we going to be done with these Blood sucking Demo Rats that want to change our Nation into a Socialistic Society, anyone that needs that much money to win an election don’t deserve to be elected, the thing is that the Demo Rats know just what to do to manipulate the poor people, they will Promise them what ever… Read more »
If he walks like an anti Constitution Communist, Communist, talks like a Communist, acts like a Communist he is…
Bloomy is not spending His Money – He is spending the Globalist Bankers funds – They are the force behind this anti-gun movement.
Also here is handgun Control’s Agenda – plodding right along:
https://varmintal.com/hci.htm
Oh but that could NEVER happen here in ‘merica..
Money is no object for these people. Also foreign money is being invested in American businesses and real estate. America is for sale and these billionaires are focused on modeling the last vestige of personal freedom for themselves.
Bloomberg buys and sells guns daily.
the entire pacific coast of the lower 48 is now gone… we better stop these trolls or it will sweep across the country.. i understand bloomy is setting up infrastructure here in maine, and has done a large money dump to fight constitutional carry here which is on the docket in our legilature.. i think this is a test for them here in maine… if they stop constitutional carry, they will try to use our referendum process to screw us with “background check” gun registration…