Mayors Against Guns withdrawal gets press
Reader Jack mails that the NY Sun has covered the Idaho mayor’s withdrawal from Bloomberg’s anti-gun group:
An Idaho mayor has dropped out of Mayor Bloomberg’s coalition against illegal guns, city officials said.
The mayor of Idaho Falls, Jared Mr. Bloomberg’s coalition in October, but withdrew earlier this month because of pressure from constituents and what he told a local news organization was a sense that the coalition had an ” agenda” of preventing guns from entering the hands even of law-abiding gun owners. The coalition is called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Mr. Fuhriman declined to comment for this article.
“I found there’s probably a little more of an agenda coming from Mayor Bloomberg’s office than I anticipated,” he told Channel 3, KIDK, on January 2. “So as I looked into it, I could see there was a conflict with the NRA and some of the beliefs we have here in Idaho.”
January 17th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Hmmmm – like getting re-elected mayhaps?
January 17th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
“…pressure from constituents…” is a nice way of saying he probably got a heavy-duty ass-chewing from IF residents, who are about as pro-gun as you can get.
January 17th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
As the British historian, Lord Acton, observed, “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, thus it is that most politicians gravitate toward, yea verily, they “be swift in running to mischief” to disarm those for whom they are supposed to be public SERVANTS.
January 17th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I do not see Mayor Haslam withdrawing. Pride goeth before the fall…
January 17th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Because she asked nicely
Well actually, she didn’t ask so much just say she didn’t have time. I don’t have time to do much of a fisking but I can do a little:…