ND Senator Blasts Bloomy

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Heidi Heitkamp Blasts Michael Bloomberg Over Gun Control Ads

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) criticized New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's federal gun control push on Tuesday, advising the mayor that he should be more worried about gun violence in his own city than in North Dakota, the Grand Forks Herald reported.

"North Dakota continues to have one [of] the highest rates of gun ownership and lowest incidences of gun crime in the country," Heitkamp said in a statement. "Yet New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg insists on taking gun-driven crime statistics in his city and from other major cities and trying to force those numbers into a narrative that just does not fit North Dakota."

Heitkamp, who previously served as North Dakota's attorney general, added, "I do not need someone from New York City to tell me how to handle crime in our state."

Her statement came in response to the recent $12 million ad buy from Mayors Against Illegal Guns, pushing senators in key states -- including Heitkamp -- to support such gun control legislation as comprehensive background checks. Bloomberg, who co-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns in 2006 and is personally financing the ad campaign, is spending roughly $156,000 in North Dakota.

"Frankly, there are far better uses for Mayor Bloomberg's $156,000 than buying ads attacking a way of life he clearly does not understand," Heitkamp wrote.

Bloomberg earlier defended the ad buy, saying that the campaign reflects the sentiments of most Americans. "These ads bring the voices of Americans -- who overwhelmingly support comprehensive and enforceable background checks -- into the discussion to move senators to immediately take action to prevent gun violence," he said in a statement issued last week by Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

According to survey data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, roughly 50.7 percent of North Dakotans own a firearm -- one of the highest rates in the country. Yet the state's annual gun homicide rate is below the national average, with less than 1.1 per 100,000 people dying from gun violence in North Dakota, compared to the national rate of 2.75 per 100,000.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/heidi-heitkamp-michael-bloomberg_n_2963685.html

[Dakotaranger]

Don't really like her, but at least she gets us Dakotans don't like some cityslicker telling us how to live.

[Pathfinder]

Voted for her opponent, kinda sorry I did. She has been right in line with liberties.

Disappointed, though, that she chose to make this a cultural thing instead of a rights thing. Yeah, there are scads of guns in ND, lot of hunting too. But this is a rights fight, not a hunting fight.

[crusader rabbit]

Funny how one of the first senators to grow a pair is named Heidi.

Ah'm jus' sayin'...

Crusader Rabbit

[locnload]

I don't know about other states, but in Colorado we often hear a charge of "attempting to influence a public official". In fact the Colorado Sherriffs Association is looking at filing that charge against the State Senate President for threatening to put the Sherriffs future pay increases off (the Legislature sets Sherriffs salaries) because they did not support the Dems push for Gun Control.

Soooo, would the Mayor of NYC coming in here, spreading money around and twisting arms not be considered the highest form of attempting to influence a public official?  I would love to see our Sherrif Smith cuff and stuff that smug SOB.   

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[tombogan03884]

I don't know about other states, but in Colorado we often hear a charge of "attempting to influence a public official". In fact the Colorado Sherriffs Association is looking at filing that charge against the State Senate President for threatening to put the Sherriffs future pay increases off (the Legislature sets Sherriffs salaries) because they did not support the Dems push for Gun Control.

Soooo, would the Mayor of NYC coming in here, spreading money around and twisting arms not be considered the highest form of attempting to influence a public official? I would love to see our Sherrif Smith cuff and stuff that smug SOB.  

Not likely.
Bloomy is special .
NH found that out when they tried to charge him for conspiracy when his employees tried to organize "straw purchases" at a NH gun store.
ATF stepped in and promised to deal with him.
They told him "Don't do that any more" .

http://hoodathunk.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/judge-rules-bloomberg-committed-no-crime-in-attempted-straw-purchases/