Bloomberg, NM Mayor's anti-guns group boosts staff

The Mike Bloomberg-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns is expanding its staff in a number of states, bringing on field organizers and press secretaries to press members of Congress in advance of voting on gun control legislation, officials confirmed. Emails have circulated in the past two weeks searching for press operatives and other staffers to work on a three-to-six-month project for MAIG. The email says the teams will be deployed in states. MAIG officials declined to identify which states are involved, but the group released a poll of 21 states including Maine, Arizona and Louisiana showing voters overwhelmingly approve of background checks for all gun sales. The survey was conducted by Bloomberg’s longtime pollster, Doug Schoen. The group expects to be in at least some of those states, officials said. The goal of the new hires is to apply pressure on federal lawmakers in advance of voting on new gun-control legislation...more  

Let's not forget Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima, and Mayors Joe Murrieta of Grants, Ray Alborn of Ruidoso, David Coss of Santa Fe, Albert Campos, Jr. of Santa Rosa and Gloria J. Chavez of Tijeras are members of this group.