Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a Tax-exempt Nonprofit group, currently faces criticism for employing public New York City Hall (public and not private) workers to manage its website, and for hosting its site on official city government servers. Bloomberg’s coalition also sent a special counsel for Bloomberg’s mayoral office to Nevada to register as a gun-control lobbyist. [Read more:] dailycaller/2013/07/27/bloomberg-coalition-silent-on-pedro-vargas-florida-shooting-rampage/#ixzz2aOJl61gL Bloomberg, a billionaire Barack Obama supporter, personally donated the vast majority of the money raised by the coalition, according to an August 2012 disclosure made in compliance with Van Hollen v. Federal Election Commission, which ruled that “social welfare organizations” must disclose their donors if they run ads mentioning specific candidates. Bloomberg made 68 small contributions to his own group totaling approximately $3.1 million between January 2011 and July 2012. [Read more:] dailycaller/2013/07/27/bloomberg-coalition-silent-on-pedro-vargas-florida-shooting-rampage/#ixzz2aOKQ9J00
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