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Anti-Gun Colorado Lawmakers Recalled, Despite Bloomberg Funding

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 25: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a news conference at City Hall where they announced that the two men accused of carrying out last week's bombing of the Boston Marathon planned an additional bomb attack on New York's Times Square on April 25, 2013 in New York City. In interrogations with younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, police have learned that the two had planned to take the car that they hijacked and its driver from Boston last Thursday night and to New York with bombs. The plan was foiled after the car ran low on gas and the two brothers got into a firefight with police. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Photo: Spencer Platt/2013 Getty Images

One election Tuesday was far from New York geographically, but our mayor nonetheless played a key role. With gun control at the center of a recall effort in Colorado, Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s money entered the fight, and lost. Bloomberg contributed some $300,000 to fend off the NRA-funded campaign to recall Colorado State Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron, both who had voted for stricter controls on firearms. Measures they supported in the wake of the Aurora and Newtown shootings, including expanded background checks on private sales and a fifteen-round limit on magazines, became laws. According to the Associated Press, the NRA contributed about the same as Bloomberg to the effort to recall the two legislators. In the political proxy battle between Bloomberg and the NRA, this round goes to the gun lobby.

Anti-Gun Colorado Lawmakers Recalled