{"id":1231,"date":"2020-02-16T03:24:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/index.php\/2020\/02\/16\/bloomberg-invades-north-carolina\/"},"modified":"2020-02-16T03:24:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T03:24:51","slug":"bloomberg-invades-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2020\/02\/bloomberg-invades-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Invades North Carolina!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/cimages\/5bcf6b4cbc542c90ce112ef502d41dff\/GRNCLogoLarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"106\" align=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Gun Rights Supporters:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;\">Michael Bloomberg thinks he owns the ground you walk on.<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;\"> Literally. At least, that\u2019s what a Bloomberg staffer told GRNC volunteers who protested Bloomberg\u2019s campaign event in Greensboro. In the photo below, the staffer is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>trying to eject GRNC from a public sidewalk,<\/strong><\/span> claiming Bloomberg had \u201cpurchased\u201d the sidewalk.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 15px;\" src=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/cimages\/5bcf6b4cbc542c90ce112ef502d41dff\/Sidewalk1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"606\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">These are usually\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;\">(In fairness, Bloomberg has bought \u201castroturf\u201d gun ban organizations and is buying a presidential bid, so why not a public sidewalk?) Even funnier, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Bloomberg changed the location of his Greensboro campaign event three times to avoid GRNC<\/strong><\/span>. So much for being a \u201cman of the people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;\"><br \/> <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New; font-size: large;\"> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>GRNC has protested Bloomberg twice in recent weeks<\/strong><\/span>. Why? Because (you heard it here), anti-gun zealot and billionaire <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Michael Bloomberg will be the Democrats\u2019 presidential nominee<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> Yep. After \u201cQuid Pro Joe\u201d implodes and the Dems realize an unelectable socialist is about to head their ticket, they will quickly discard all their ostensible scruples regarding Bloomberg\u2019s racist comments because Bloomberg is the only Democrat who could potentially beat Donald Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">And <strong>even if Bloomberg doesn\u2019t win, you might well lose<\/strong>. Why? Because according to his astroturf \u201cEverytown for Gun Safety,\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/everytown.org\/press\/everytown-announces-60-million-electoral-program-for-2020\/\">Bloomberg plans to spend $60 million<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 much of it here \u2013 <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">to do to North Carolina exactly what he did to Virginia<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">That is why we are gearing up the GRNC Political Victory Fund for<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> election action like none we have undertaken before<\/span><\/strong>. Sure, our federal political action committee has been electing pro-gun candidates since 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The GRNC Political Victory Fund (GRNC-PVF) routinely does \u201cindependent expenditures\u201d to elect pro-gun candidates, including:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hundreds of thousands of mailings<\/span><\/strong> to elect pro-gun legislators;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Millions of email election alerts<\/span><\/strong>;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Hundreds of thousands of telephone election alerts;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Thousands of dollars in <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">radio spots<\/span><\/strong>;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Thousands of Facebook political ads; and<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">A new capability to send election alerts by text.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But those efforts pale by comparison to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">what we have in mind for Bloomberg<\/span><\/strong> in the 2020 General Election.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The problem is that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">GRNC is restricted by law from using membership funds to elect or defeat political candidates<\/span><\/strong>. That\u2019s why we created our federally-registered political action committee, the GRNC Political Victory Fund.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But we can\u2019t do it without you. Yes, we are far more efficient than other PACs because <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">volunteers pour thousands of hours of sweat into defending your gun rights<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But the sad reality is that <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">winning still requires money<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>What I need you to do&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PLEASE DONATE to GRNC-PVF<\/span><\/strong> by going to: <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grnc.org\/grnc-pvf\/donate-to-grnc-pvf\">grnc.org\/grnc-pvf\/donate-to-grnc-pvf<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"> But one way or the other, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">we desperately need your help<\/span><\/strong> to defend North Carolina gun rights against the anti-gun \u201cperfect storm\u201d bearing down on us in the 2020 elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\">Armatissimi e liberissimi, <\/span><\/span> <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/cimages\/5bcf6b4cbc542c90ce112ef502d41dff\/PaulV_Signature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"164\" height=\"134\" align=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"> <br \/> F. Paul Valone<br \/> President, <a href=\"GRNC.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener\">Grass Roots North Carolina<\/a><br \/> Executive Director, <a href=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/ct\/52417676:s-NYuhwNU:m:1:345462005:160F4F986A7E94309FAA8015D0A9DC34:r\">Rights Watch International<\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New;\"><br \/> Radio host, <a href=\"http:\/\/paracom.paramountcommunication.com\/ct\/52417677:s-NYuhwNU:m:1:345462005:160F4F986A7E94309FAA8015D0A9DC34:r\">Guns, Politics and Freedom<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong><em>P.S. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Don\u2019t let your state go the way of Virginia<\/span>! <\/em><\/strong><em>I realize you have lots of competing interests but, in the 2020 elections, our rights are at stake. So I am asking you to take a moment away from your busy life to help GRNC-PVF defend gun rights from the leftist onslaught. <\/em><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grnc.org\/grnc-pvf\/donate-to-grnc-pvf\">$250, 100, $50, even $25<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/strong><em> will help the GRNC Political Victory Fund to prevail.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Gun Rights Supporters: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Michael Bloomberg thinks he owns the ground you walk on. Literally. At least, that\u2019s what a Bloomberg staffer told GRNC &#8230; <a title=\"Bloomberg Invades North Carolina!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/2020\/02\/bloomberg-invades-north-carolina\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bloomberg Invades North Carolina!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pauls-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grnc.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}