{"id":36387,"date":"2013-06-24T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36387"},"modified":"2013-06-24T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T17:34:13","slug":"bloombergs-taxpayer-funded-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36387","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg’s taxpayer funded internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw hints of this last week on Twitter, but I’m not in the habit of scooping folks, so I’ve been waiting for Ace of Spades blogger John Ekdahl<\/a> to tell the story. But it looks like Nanny Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (more accurately “Mayors Against Guns We Don’t Own”) has been using the City of New York taxpayers-paid internet to host the 501(c)4 organization’s website;<\/p>\n

At first I pinged mayorsagainstillegalguns.org and found that it was resolving at a New York City government IP address.<\/p>\n

It turns out I didn’t even have to look that closely, because the mayorsagainstillegalguns.org domain is registered to the city of New York. As you can see there, the registrant name is “NYC DoITT”, which is the New York City Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg’s spokesdingus says<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Bloomberg’s aides forcefully defended the arrangement, batting down questions of impropriety by pointing out the distinction between Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which is the coalition of mayors, and the group’s “action fund,” which is the vehicle for political spending.<\/p>\n

The activities of the mayors’ group “are in the interest of keeping New York City safe,” John McCarthy, a spokesman for Bloomberg, told Politico. “He is acting in his capacity as mayor of New York City.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m not a tax code lawyer or anything, but it seems to me that this is illegal, and if it’s not illegal, it’s unethical for the mayor of New York (who really isn’t anyone, any-f*cking-way outside of New York City) to stick his nose in national politics with a “non-profit” organization funded by the taxpayers with or against their wills. Do you mean to tell me that Hiz-Dingus can’t afford to find his own hosting service somewhere? I mean, I did and I’m almost, but not quite, as rich as Bloomberg. Why is he saddling the taxpayers with this – like I said, if it’s not illegal, it’s unethical to say the least. <\/p>\n

Oh, yeah, the name of the organization is “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” there’s an “s” after the first word, to me that means the word is plural, so why are New York City taxpayers picking up the tab for those other cities who want to stick their nose in our business?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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