Jim Messina, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager, who will
chair the relaunched, tax-exempt version called Organizing for Action,
visited New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s office at City Hall last
week to coordinate the fight for gun control legislation, POLITICO has
learned. Aides to Bloomberg, one of the faces of gun control
nationally, had already been working with Vice President Joe Biden’s
task force on a gun control bill before it was recently unveiled. But Messina spearheads Obama’s political arm, which has
been established outside the boundaries of the Democratic National
Committee and has listed gun control as one of its coming priorities,
and Bloomberg has already made clear he’s willing to spend from his
personal fortune as a counterbalance to the National Rifle Association. The meeting took place late last week in the mayor’s “bullpen,” Bloomberg’s trademark walls-free office at City Hall...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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