is a good thing as long as you agree with the cause? Sorry, it is always wrong be it Wall Street banks going after Ms. Warren or Bloomburg going after Democrats he doesn't like. Are the other people in the race fellow Democrats in a primary? If not, you might want to read the TOS closer.

and neither do corporations.

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that doesn't mean the Kochs support it. Personally, I try to avoid partisan sources as much as possible.

Or just a democrat who supports the gun rights?

themselves involved in NYC politics, or attempted to throw a monkey wrench in his own reelection.

But gun grabbers like him are too full of themselves to notice that people actually resent some outsider meddling in their district and state.

They announce that they are going to ban something and then are stunned and stupid when people rush to buy what they demonize and try to ban.

Bloomberg will give the GOP all the fodder they need to actually have a chance to win this seat for the first time in 40 years.

Halvorson is a good, solid Dem on every issue. But she happens to be pro gun.

Purist assholes are going to lose the Senate and lose the seats we gained in the House in 2012.

I do love the fact that loudmouths that can't get any gun measures repealed in their own state are full of great advice for everyone else.

But on the good news side of things ... Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon has formed a bi-partisan committee from the house to develop the concealed carry laws for Illinois. The best estimates are we'll get shall issue by July.

...and keep his money to himself. Pathetic how some here hang on the words of this tyrannical 1%er but not surprising.

That quick response is kind of fishy almost like the RBKA crew is monitoring this thread for some reason.

It's not what you don't know that makes one a fool, it's what you know that ain't so that makes one a fool.

Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?

They are the online equivalent of enclosure riots: the rick-burning, fence-toppling protests by English peasants losing their rights to the land. When MasterCard, Visa, Paypal and Amazon tried to shut WikiLeaks out of the cyber-commons, an army of hackers responded by trying to smash their way into these great estates and pull down their fences.

In the Wikileaks punch-up the commoners appear to have the upper hand. But it’s just one battle. There’s a wider cyberwar being fought, of which you hear much less. And in most cases the landlords, with the help of a mercenary army, are winning.

I’m not talking here about threats to net neutrality and the danger of a two-tier internet developing, though these are real. I’m talking about the daily attempts to control and influence content in the interests of the state and corporations: attempts in which money talks.

The weapon used by both state and corporate players is a technique known as astroturfing. An astroturf campaign is one that mimics spontaneous grassroots mobilizations, but which has in reality been organized. Anyone writing a comment piece in Mandarin critical of the Chinese government, for example, is likely to be bombarded with abuse by people purporting to be ordinary citizens, upset by the slurs against their country.

But many of them aren’t upset: they are members of the 50 Cent Party, so-called because one Chinese government agency pays 5 mao (half a yuan) for every post its tame commenters write. Teams of these sock-puppets are hired by party leaders to drown out critical voices and derail intelligent debates.

http://current.com/community/93896214_are-right-wing-libertarian-internet-trolls-getting-paid-to-dumb-down-online-conversations.htm

Please save me from the screed. Just say what you mean Mr. ?????

... how much will you pay me to post anti-gun diatribes?

... you're worth SOOOOO much more

who cheer on hizzonner to defeat this Democrat over a single issue.
So a pro-gun Dem gets replaced by a Repub, how will the (R) vote on social and economic issues? Will said (R) vote for GC or toe the party line whether for GC ( ) or against

Mayor B will support any candidate who runs against a pro-gun pol.

My district has not been a non-Dem since before Herbert Hoover; I don't think it has ever been Republican, even under Lincoln. I still would not want a billionaire a thousand miles away dabbling in primaries or general election to sway it the way he wants on a single issue. I would rather take my chances with my neighbors to vote who we think is best.

I have Diet Coke hear but might enjoy a hard lemonade later; thanks for the offer

www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84277_Page2.html

But don't the the real world get in the way of a a fond DINO meme.

A quasi-Republican 1%er I see.

I suspect I know the answer.

but is third way corporatist, anti union DINO.

Who do you support in this actual situation vs the hypothetical one you want to use to divide Democrats with? The ALEC-DINO or African Americans in an African American district?

of anything Benito Bloomberg has his fingers in. He's proved to be a petty wannabe tyrant.