Comments on: Success Against the Mayors! (Sorta)

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:36:26 +0000

Come on, it’s part of our new travel campaign. Come to Ohio, high taxes and one less mayor out for your guns.

The other candidate was “Ohio. Not as “east coast” at PA”

By: Bitter

Bitter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:54:56 +0000

Not to diminish the newsworthiness of Buckeye’s effort, but I do have to wonder just how many comments we are going to get. It seems like everyone feels the need to inform about this even though it’s been mentioned and linked in just about every Bloomberg post. Is it a new rule that every single mayor post needs to include a link to talk about one mayor in Ohio? If so, when will it end? When the next mayor leaves? And what about the mayor of Houston? Is he chopped liver since he also left in recent weeks?

Obviously, this is in jest. But I am amazed that everyone seems to want to chime in on every post about Bloomberg when it’s already been covered about half a dozen times, especially when we still have about 100 mayors to target here in Pennsylvania which has been the focus of every post.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:44:47 +0000

Buckeye firearms had on a mayor last sunday that quit the sham. they’ve probably got the podcast up online now, might be worth listening to if your mayor is an anti.

By: Bitter

Bitter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:00:46 +0000

Eh, in cases like that, it’s pretty obvious. :)

But, I would rather show that it’s gun owners rather than because of guns. If we can show that gun owners being motivated by the issue of gun rights will mobilize them so they turn other coalitions against you, then we’re really unstoppable. Then it’s not just us, it’s anyone we want to bring in as a coalition.

By: Joe Huffman

Joe Huffman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:51:27 +0000

Bitter,

Shhhh…. let other mayors think it was because of the guns.

;-)

By: Bitter

Bitter — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:25:21 +0000

MSJ, I am still a big fan of ousting mayors for other reasons if needed. IMO, gun owners need to embrace capitalizing on other political issues more than they do now. Even if most of a constituency supports gun rights, most of them won’t vote on it. But if you make anti-gun attitudes one of many things they don’t like, then they will be motivated to vote.

Of course, I suspect most of the PA mayors would be willing to leave with just a bit of constituent pressure.

Joe, I do believe that Greg Nickels was ousted for many of those “other” reasons. From what I’ve read, Seattle Democratic primary voters (most decidedly not a widespread pro-gun constituency) were pretty unhappy with the fact that his policies lead to a nearly two-week shutdown of the city right around Christmas. I remember reading articles that even emergency vehicles couldn’t get around because of the poor maintenance. But if it takes embracing that failure to get him out, I say go for it!

By: SayUncle » Speaking of Mayors Against Guns

SayUncle » Speaking of Mayors Against Guns — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:10:41 +0000

[...] And pro-gun successes in Pennsylvania. [...]

By: top of the chain

top of the chain — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:08:14 +0000

There are three mayors here in Missouri. Kansas City, Creve Coeur and St. Louis. I’ve e-mailed the Creve Coeur mayor to verify his involvement in this. Francis Slay of St. Louis is a given. Slay is the longest serving mayor in St. Louis city ever. It’s time for him to go for a variety of reasons. This among them.

By: Mad Saint Jack

Mad Saint Jack — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:25:56 +0000

My Mayor who was on the list got voted out (unrelated), and I thought the Mayor next door was listed but I don’t see that city now. I’ll have to check and see if he got vote out too.

Cincy is still there.

By: Joe Huffman

Joe Huffman — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:17:44 +0000

Seattle gun owners helped get rid of one of Bloomberg's followers last week.