{"id":3064,"date":"2012-08-08T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/08\/08\/bloomberg-declines-invitation\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:19:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:19:15","slug":"bloomberg-declines-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3064","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Declines An Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15343,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/how-would-you-feel-about-maig-regional.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251205150732\\\/https:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/how-would-you-feel-about-maig-regional.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 11:47:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 04:53:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-25 04:53:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is almost as big a media whore as the senior senator from New York, Chuck Schumer. Given half a chance he&#8217;ll pontificate about salt and sugar and guns and breast milk <i>ad nauseum<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>That is why I agree with Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation and CCRKBA that it is strange that Bloomberg declined an invitation to speak at the 2012 Gun Rights Policy Conference. He would look brave for going before a group of gun rights activists and he&#8217;d get tons of publicity out of it. Moreover, while in Orlando, he could check on how <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/how-would-you-feel-about-maig-regional.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his taxpayer paid MAIG regional coordinator<\/a> is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Alan sent out a notice about Bloomberg&#8217;s declining his invitation this afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been challenging President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to speak out about gun control, but Bloomberg declined a chance to do it himself at the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in September, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, Bloomberg was invited to the 27th annual event, scheduled Sept. 28-30 in Orlando, Fla., but he turned it down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does it say about someone who demands that others shill for his agenda, but when given the chance to take his fight to the gun rights community, he retreats,\u201d Gottlieb wondered. \u201cMayor Bloomberg is always quick with his tongue in front of a friendly media audience, or in the confines of a broadcast studio, but when he has an opportunity to meet with people who have differing viewpoints about a fundamental civil right, he takes a powder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will be the first time in its history that the GRPC is held in the Sunshine State. Among the anticipated speakers will be Mark O\u2019Mara, defense attorney representing George Zimmerman, the man now charged in the death of Trayvon Martin. The announcement has stirred considerable media attention for the upcoming event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems odd for a guy like Michael Bloomberg, who rushes to every television news camera and microphone, to avoid what could be a major media event,\u201d Gottlieb mused. \u201cHe\u2019s been complaining about the \u2018deafening silence\u2019 from Romney and Obama, but when he is offered the chance to confront gun owners, whose rights he wants to see trampled, he voluntarily puts on a muzzle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Bloomberg has spent the past several months,\u201d he said, \u201cestablishing himself as a Nanny State monarch, telling people give up their guns, to drink less soda, eat fewer fries and forego giving baby formula to newborns. He\u2019s good at criticizing people he calls gun \u2018nuts,\u2019 but lately he seems a few cashews short of a full can, himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps he\u2019s worried that a trip to Orlando might end with a sunburn,\u201d Gottlieb concluded. \u201cFrom all indications, he\u2019s had a little too much sun already.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is almost as big a media whore as the senior senator from New&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3389,394,395,203],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-gun-rights-policy-conference","tag-alan-gottlieb","tag-ccrkba","tag-michael-bloomberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8250,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}