10:14 am Nov. 9, 20113
A City Hall spokesman said unreturned phone calls to staff and outdated website from a Pennsylvania mayor's office led Michael Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition to to keep using the name of a deceased mayor in ads and letters.
A Pennsylvania blogger spotted Bloomberg's use of Freeland Borough Mayor Tim Martin's name after he died from cancer on September 2, 2010.
"[T]he deceased mayor has signed his name to at least two advertisements, three letters to Congress and one letter to the President sent by Michael Bloomberg's office."
A Bloomberg spokesman emailed to say:
"With more than 600 mayors in cities across the county, there are always going to be changes to keep up with. We actually called every one of our 169 mayors’ offices in Pennsylvania this summer to confirm status. The staff in Freeland never returned our calls, so we relied on the government websites, which still list him as Mayor."
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They'll do and say whatever it takes to keep inflating their numbers, including having dead, alive & former members, or ex-mayors convicted of crimes and no longer eligible to serve, listed anyway. MAIG has a higher arrest and conviction rate of its members than concealed weapon permit holders nationwide. Considering its obvious goal is making innocent victims defenseless against violent crime, the organization's black streak of criminality should come as no surprise.
Surely 600 is not a difficult to number of members to manage. The truth is that Bloomberg's Mayors Against Illegal Guns roster is about as incredible as their bogus numbers of gun crimes. Bloomberg is a fraud. He ought to get a job doing his own slight-of-hand show in a carnival or go work the blackjack tables in Vegas with Sarah Brady. Hey MB!! When are you going to drop the stupid gun possession charges that you are holding on Ms. Graves. How about giving her an apology with that expungement of her charges too. If you really want to be a gentleman, you'll clean her gun and return it to her.