By Tanya Metaksa
Special to Liberty Park Press
The gun prohibition lobby, Everytown, Giffords and the rest, have been perpetuating the myth that the gun lobby, usually the NRA, has been “buying” the votes of pro-gun Representatives and Senators since the 1970s.
But now, just 10 days before the midterm elections, the real numbers speak louder than myths. Billionaires such as George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Nick Hanauer, Warren Buffet, Oprah Winfrey, and Microsoft co-owners—Bill Gates, the late Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer—have been bankrolling the gun control lobby over the past decades.
Most gun owners know Michael Bloomberg, the founder of Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, as he has been the most outspoken gun control advocate for the past 20 years. He has personally provided a third of the aggregate funding for Everytown since its inception and is, according to The NY Times, “the sole funder of Independence USA, a political action committee that spent about $60 million in the 2018 election cycle.”
As of the Sept. 30 filing date, that PAC has spent $1,058,690.00 in an independent expenditure in support of anti-gun Representative Lucy McBath (D-GA-07). Other expenditures in the early days of October have been in opposition to five Republican U.S. Senate candidates in very tight races. They have spent $1,000,000 against Senator Johnson of Wisconsin, $850,000 against Senate candidate Adam Laxalt (NV), $786,210 against Joe O’Dea running in the U.S. Senate race in Colorado, over $1 million against Senate candidate Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and $1,036,999 against Hershel Walker in the Georgia Senate race. All these funds are in addition to the over $7 million Everytown has spent prior to October 2022. Most of this money has been donated by Michael Bloomberg.
George Soros, the billionaire advocate for open borders, has been bankrolling anti-gun politicians for years. In 2016 he began supporting anti-law and order prosecutors, because he understood that money in these “inexpensive” races would keep criminals out of jail, while at the same time supporting gun control targeted at law abiding citizens. In the past three election cycles he has supported such anti-gun prosecutors as Chicago’s Kim Foxx with a $2 million contribution in 2020, St. Louis’ Kim Gardner, and Los Angeles’ George Gascon.
In the current election cycle through the September 2022 reporting cycle Soros has personally contributed $1.396 million to anti-gun candidates and state Democratic Party committees. But this is not the totality of his political spending. He is again supporting local District Attorney candidates: one in Norfolk, VA, Ramen Fatehi, with a $414,450 independent expenditure campaign and $331,832 for Kimberly Graham, running for Polk County, Iowa Attorney.
The dollars being spent by anti-gun billionaires are gigantic. But the votes of each and every gun owner are absolutely necessary to counter this effort. November 8 is looming fast. Vote!
