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Is Michael Bloomberg Using City Resources For His "Mayors Against Illegal Guns" Group?

via Ace of Spades:




I really hate doing the question headline, but this definitely needs answering. I started poking around last night.


At first I pinged mayorsagainstillegalguns.org and found that it was resolving at a New York City government IP address.


Pinging NYC.gov returns the same information.

It turns out I didn't even have to look that closely, because the mayorsagainstillegalguns.org domain is registered to the city of New York. As you can see there, the registrant name is "NYC DoITT", which is the New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications.

According to this, Mayors Against Illegal Guns appears to be a 501(c)(4).

The action fund arm of MAIG is a 501(c)(3). Even if MAIG is reimbursing the city for these services, questions would still remain. Like, would New York City offer these same services to NYCTeaParty4Eva.org? Section 1072(p) of the city's charter on information technology appears to give the Mayor a little leeway, but I can't imagine it would cover his personal nonprofit groups.

Another Bloomberg group, Renew Our Economy, has their domain registered to Mayors Against Illegal Guns. This is all a bit of a mess, which shouldn't surprise anyone at this point. At best, this is really sloppy. At worst, this could be pretty serious. We'll see what develops.


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Seems he has other nasty schemes up his sleeve.............




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