{"id":3282,"date":"2012-05-21T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T00:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/05\/21\/how-would-you-feel-about-maig-regiona\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:18:33","slug":"how-would-you-feel-about-maig-regiona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"How Would You Feel About MAIG Regional Coordinators Paid With Your Tax Dollars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15774,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.allnineyards.com\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/maig-coordinators-paid-as-city-employees-saves-gun-haters-money&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240527070302\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.allnineyards.com\\\/2012\\\/05\\\/maig-coordinators-paid-as-city-employees-saves-gun-haters-money\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 15:43:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:202},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-24 00:48:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 23:13:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:202}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 23:13:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:202},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;d probably feel just the same way I do &#8211; angry, disgusted, and, if it were my tax dollars, pissed off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allnineyards.com\/2012\/05\/maig-coordinators-paid-as-city-employees-saves-gun-haters-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From the All Nine Yards blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Here\u2019s a great way to reduce overhead and be effective at running a national organization dedicated to infringing on the gun rights of everyday people all at the same time\u2026  Have cities hire your people for you so that tax payers pay for \u00bc of your people\u2019s salary and benefits, most of their operational costs, and all of their other resources!  It also embeds your people as leaders in city government so that you don\u2019t have to lobby there!<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like another conspiracy theory from the tinfoil hat brigade\u2026 Right?<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, while researching the repeal of some anti-gun ordinances, I stumbled across an Orlando City Council agenda item that grabbed my attention. It was, on its surface, just a mundane action item for the annual contract renewal of a city employee. But this city employee\u2019s job title was, well, unique\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApproving Employment Contract for the Grant-Funded Position of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Regional Coordinator.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sean Caranna has uncovered this rat&#8217;s nest and it isn&#8217;t limited to Orlando, Florida. He has found similar regional coordinators embedded in city governments in Maine, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as well other place in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Sean&#8217;s well-research and well-documented post is a must read. After you read it &#8211; and stop cursing &#8211; forward links to it to all your friends.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d probably feel just the same way I do &#8211; angry, disgusted, and, if it were my tax dollars,&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":[535,1454,3682],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gun-control-groups","tag-maig","tag-sean-caranna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","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=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8000,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions\/8000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}