{"id":17068,"date":"2014-04-27T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17068"},"modified":"2014-04-27T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T18:13:21","slug":"bloombergs-idea-of-grassroots-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/27\/bloombergs-idea-of-grassroots-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg&#8217;s idea of &#8220;grassroots&#8221; in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, to no great surprise, we now get a glimpse of Bloomberg&#8217;s idea of &#8220;grassroots.&#8221; His new Everytown for Gun Safety outfit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/mikehayes\/bloomberg-group-foots-bill-to-send-hundreds-of-gun-reform-ac\" target=\"_blank\">paid demonstrators<\/a> to protest at the NRA annual meeting. And when a gun-friendly reporter tried to question Bloomy&#8217;s plastic PR &#8220;mom&#8221; Shannon Watts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/04\/26\/watch-what-happens-when-dana-loesch-confronts-one-of-bloombergs-anti-gun-partners\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watts was whisked away<\/a>. By armed guards. In an SUV bearing New York license plates.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, this &#8220;grassroots&#8221; effort is going really, really well. <\/p>\n<p>ADDED: Just lookit <a href=\"http:\/\/armsandthelaw.com\/archives\/2014\/04\/moms_demand_act.php\" target=\"_blank\">that incredible mob<\/a> of &#8220;grassroots&#8221; hoplophobes!<\/p>\n<p>Inside the convention hall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/04\/25\/wisconsin-sheriff-reveals-the-seven-words-he-would-use-to-change-the-second-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\">better things transpired<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, to no great surprise, we now get a glimpse of Bloomberg&#8217;s idea of &#8220;grassroots.&#8221; His new Everytown for Gun Safety outfit paid demonstrators to protest at the NRA annual meeting. And when a gun-friendly reporter tried to question Bloomy&#8217;s plastic PR &#8220;mom&#8221; Shannon Watts, Watts was whisked away. By armed guards. In an SUV bearing New York license plates. Oh yeah, this &#8220;grassroots&#8221; effort is going really, really well. ADDED: Just lookit that incredible mob of &#8220;grassroots&#8221; hoplophobes! Inside the convention hall, better things transpired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-and-gun-rights","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}