-By Warner Todd Huston
New York Mayor Michael “Nanny” Bloomberg has been running all over the country claiming to represent hundreds of America’s mayors with his anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG). But Nanny Bloomberg is lately finding that many of those mayors are abandoning his anti-gun group over the mayor’s false advertising about just what his group is about.
A recent look at the 2012 membership rolls of MAIG finds that some 50 mayors have recently quit Bloomberg’s anti-Second Amendment group.
Of course, some of those mayors are off the list because they lost an election or have left office for whatever reason. But many have specifically asked to be removed from the group.
Two mayors in particular have left because they say that Bloomberg misled them about what MAIG was going to be about in the first place.
The mayor of Rockford, Illinois, Larry Morrissey, said that when he first joined the group that he initially joined the group because it was going to go after “illegal” guns, just as it says in its name. But it wasn’t long before he realized that Bloomberg was going after so-called “assault rifles” and attacking the rights of law abiding Americans instead of going after illegal guns.
Further, now that Illinois has become the last state to institute concealed carry, Morrissey plans to get his own license to carry.
Rockford is the State of Illinois’ third largest city.
Mayor Donnalee Lozeau of Nashua, NH, has also announced that she has quit the notorious anti-gun group. Lozeau made her announcement after Bloomberg announced his plan to attack NH Senator Kelly Ayotte.
It is pretty clear that a growing number of these mayors are realizing that Michael Bloomberg has lied to them.
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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