One just shakes their head – WHY would NYC Nannier Mayor Bloomberg (in which he believes no one should have a gun) even think to put his AstroTurf group Mayors Against Illegal Guns that visited NH this week (ably covered by Groksters Rick, Susan, Tim and Steve here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here) on New York City Government servers? Ace has the story (emphasis mine):
At first I pinged mayorsagainstillegalguns.org and found that it was resolving at a New York City government IP address.
Pinging NYC.gov returns the same information.
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.
According to this, Mayors Against Illegal Guns appears to be a 501(c)(4). The action fund arm of MAIG is a 501(c)(3). Even if MAIG is reimbursing the city for these services, questions would still remain. Like, would New York City offer these same services to NYCTeaParty4Eva.org? Section 1072(p) of the city’s charter on information technology appears to give the Mayor a little leeway, but I can’t imagine it would cover his personal nonprofit groups.
You know, this group just keeps getting better and better in being worse and worser. For all the $$ he’s spending on anti-gun ads all over the US and having made his fortune on “applied IT” you’da thunk he’d a have a tech around (or a 100) to set a server in an afternoon (or given the resources he can marshal, an afternoon). But no, King Mayor Bloomie decided to use his Mayorship in royal fashion.
So, combine an arrogant attitude due to his riches and his position, the disdain in which he is rapidly gathering outside of NY for his “Nannyism for the people”, his rep for paying attention to details in his private business, this just adds to the overall amateurism shown thus far by MAIG. Instead of moving his agenda forward, MAIG is mostly gather laughter.
Perhaps they should replace the bus with one of these:
