{"id":1551,"date":"2014-10-21T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/10\/21\/billionaires-arent-only-ones-pumping\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:39","slug":"billionaires-arent-only-ones-pumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires Aren&#8217;t The Only Ones Pumping Money Into Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11382,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2014\\\/09\\\/dingy-harry-is-right-billionaires-are.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11383,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.pdc.wa.gov\\\/MvcQuerySystem\\\/CommitteeData\\\/inkind?param=V0FTSEFHIDEwMQ%3D%3D%3D%3D&amp;year=2014&amp;type=initiative&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.pdc.wa.gov\\\/MvcQuerySystem\\\/CommitteeData\\\/inkind?param=V0FTSEFHIDEwMQ====&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11384,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/winwinnetwork.org\\\/about&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210927214722\\\/http:\\\/\\\/winwinnetwork.org\\\/about\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 04:06:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 04:06:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:11385,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.truepat.org\\\/about&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/dingy-harry-is-right-billionaires-are.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I did a post last month detailing all the money being pumped<\/a> into Washington State in support of the gun control initiative I-594. At that time, five billionaires and one very rich woman from an &#8220;old Seattle family&#8221; had cumulatively put in almost 75% of the monies in support of the initiative. Since then, Michael Bloomberg, through his Everytown Moms for Illegal Mayors, has pumped another $950,000 into the effort along with at least $350,000 from the coterie of billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like Gabby Giffords and the Space Cowboy (aka Mark Kelly) have gotten involved as well. Through their Americans for Responsible Solutions (sic), they have donated $229,091 for in-kind direct mail services. It is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pdc.wa.gov\/MvcQuerySystem\/CommitteeData\/inkind?param=V0FTSEFHIDEwMQ%3D%3D%3D%3D&amp;year=2014&amp;type=initiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largest in-kind donation of the campaign.<\/a> The majority of the other in-kind services is coming from the <a href=\"http:\/\/winwinnetwork.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Win\/Win Network<\/a> (a coalition of unions and left-wing groups) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truepat.org\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">True Patriot Network<\/a> which is run by billionaire Nick Hanauer.<\/p>\n<p>I have to give Washington State kudos for their Public Disclosure Commission reporting system. It is much more up-to-date on contributions that the Federal Election Commission system.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GabbyWashingtonState.jpeg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/GabbyWashingtonState.jpeg\" height=\"627\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">From the Federal Election Commission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a post last month detailing all the money being pumped into Washington State in support of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1312,488,1949],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-americans-for-responsible-solutions","tag-gabby-giffords","tag-i-594"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}