I check in on the Ravalli Republic online from time to time and was quite surprised to find this from Missoula Mayor John Engen.

“I am a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns,” Engen said Friday. “My part in that is about promoting common-sense gun laws, and chief among those are programs for expanded background checks. I think other common-sense gun organizations are paying attention to this, but I haven’t had contact on this issue.”

It is amazing to me on several levels. I guess I’m not overly surprised that some confused people exist in Montana, but HE GOT ELECTED! I mean, IN MONTANA! Holey smokes! I guess that actually does fit in with a state governor who vetoed some wonderful corrections to crazy gun laws that the state house and state senate made in their last session.

Who the heck is counting the votes in Montana elections?

In Montana I almost never meet anybody addled enough to buy the victim disarmament mentality. Certainly even speaking against disarmament plans with less than full vigor would knock a candidate out of the running.

How does this happen?

Are only lemmings allowed the vote?

I’m a bit new here. They let me register to vote. Is my vote not going to be counted? How does this work?
 

A quick search for crime boss Bloomberg’s drop outs brought me to the article below which describes the situation well enough for me to just leave it alone. It is from a website called “Front Page Mag“.

Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Imploding

as 50 Mayors Leave

Between the 50 mayors who have checked out of Hotel Bloomberg, some of whom were arrested, one for demanding gay sex at gunpoint, the number of people in the control freak mayor’s boutique anti-gun group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, run with pilfered city resources, is dropping.

Not helping matters was Bloomberg’s declaration of war on Southern Democrats and even gun-control Republicans who didn’t hew to his exacting standards. And so Napoleon IV is watching his little empire of attack ads coming apart.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group Mayors Against Illegal Guns is finding it hard to keep its membership up, thanks to dozens of resignations and lost elections over the last few months.

Worse for Bloomberg, who has become one of the faces of the gun control movement: the people replacing his lost comrades aren’t particularly eager to sign up with the organization, a rare group battling in the trenches against the well-organized and deep-pocketed National Rifle Association. Some appear not quite to have signed on for that level of political heat.

“The original focus, I thought, was going to be on focusing on better on enforcement of our existing laws, and if anything, we have talked about not getting involved with things like banning assault weapons and banning magazine clips,” said Rockford, Il. Mayor Lawrence Morrissey, who left the group in June because, he said at a town hall meeting, the group had veered from what he originally thought it was about.

The name Mayors Against Illegal Guns was quite misleading. Mayors Against Guns would have been more accurate. But the group’s fatal flaw was letting Bloomberg, an unpopular man even in his own city, become their public face.

According to an old version of its member list, saved on a blog dated back to late February, more than 50 mayors who were then listed on MAIG’s website are no longer there. Most of the mayors whose names are no longer affiliated with the group are off the list either because they resigned or lost an election, but others have specifically asked to be removed.

Meanwhile the Mayors Against Illegal Guns website, which is run using stolen city resources, hasn’t been updated since April. Not exactly promising for a group that promised to destroy the NRA and transform America.

The final message from the doomed group closes by stating. “In 2014, our ever-expanding coalition of supporters will work to make sure that voters don’t forget.”