Bloomberg to Spend $1.1 Million for
McAuliffe
Monday, 21 Oct 2013 11:11 PM
By Cathy Burke
Billionaire New York
City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's
pro-gun-control super PAC will finance $1.1 million in advertising for Virginia
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe
in the final weeks of the race, Politico reported Monday.
The ads will roll out Tuesday. The
election is Nov. 5.
McAuliffe journeyed to New York in August to seek the mayor's
support.
Bloomberg, a political independent, has
spent more than $15 million on various gun control initiatives — and spent $1
million helping elect Newark Mayor Cory Booker to a U.S. Senate seat in New
Jersey's special election to replace the late Frank Lautenberg, who championed
gun control, The New York Post reported.
McAuliffe supports stricter gun laws,
including an assault weapons ban, universal background checks, limiting the
size of magazines and preventing people from buying more than one gun a month.
Roll Call reported Monday that the
political action committee of the National Rifle Association has spent $466,000
on television and Internet ads highlighting McAuliffe-backed gun control
measures.
The campaign of Republican Ken Cuccinelli,
who supports a focus on mental health to reduce gun violence, slammed the ads
as out-of-state interference.
"Terry McAuliffe and his allies are
spending tens of millions of dollars in an attempt to buy Virginia's governor's
mansion and impose an idealogical agenda that will severely restrict
Virginian's Second Amendment rights, hike energy prices for Virginia families
and undermine our right-to-work laws," Cuccinelli communications director
Richard Cullen told Politico.
Cuccinelli is trailing in the polls,
partly because he is getting so massively outspent on television.
Groups like Planned Parenthood, the
National Education Association and billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer have
poured in millions, Politico reported.
"McAuliffe’s liberal supporters like
. . . Mayor Bloomberg aren't pumping millions into this race for a few
laughs," Cullen said. "They’re doing so because they expect a return
on their investment."
Terry McAuliffe
Terence
R. McAuliffe is a candidate for the 2013 Terry McAuliffe (VA)
gubernatorial campaign, a director at the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and a friend of Hassan Nemazee.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill,
Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
George Soros
is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations,
a director at the Brain Trauma Foundation,
the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open
Society, and was a benefactor for the Harlem
Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem
Children's Zone, and the Robin Hood Foundation.
Hassan
Nemazee was a director at the Brain Trauma Foundation,
and is a friend of Terence R. McAuliffe.
Michael
R. Bloomberg was a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone,
a donor for the Robin Hood Foundation, is the New York (NY) mayor, and a co-chair for Mayors
Against Illegal Guns.
NRA-ILA (Mayors Against Illegal
Guns)
The Truth About "Mayors Against
Illegal Guns"
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