Bloomberg ad features Parkland shooting survivor

TALLAHASSEE — A survivor of the mass faculty capturing in Parkland is featured in a new advert from Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg.

The Florida ad launched Friday is part of a collection featuring survivors of gun violence that the campaign plans to run in 12 states.

The previous New York City mayor, an outspoken advocate for gun management, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on an advert during this weekend’s Super Bowl that encompasses a Houston mom whose son was shot and killed.

The Florida advert options Sari Kaufman, now a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Excessive Faculty, the place a gunman shot and killed 17 individuals in February 2018. Kaufman has turn into an activist because the capturing and last yr spoke out towards Florida legislation that allowed academics to hold guns in the classroom.

“Lots of politicians run away from the difficulty of gun violence, and Mike runs towards it,” Kaufman says in the Bloomberg ad.

The Bloomberg marketing campaign stated the digital advert would run till March 17, the date of Florida’s presidential main.

Bloomberg has targeted intently on Florida, bringing in employees and spending tens of millions of dollars to saturate the television market with advertisements. On Monday, the campaign will use Orlando as the start line for a multistate bus tour to name for action to stop gun violence.

After the Parkland shootings, the Republican-led Florida Legislature passed a sweeping faculty safety measure that raised the minimum age to purchase a rifle to 21. The National Rifle Affiliation has challenged the regulation in federal courtroom.

That same yr, Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, a nonprofit advocacy group largely financed by Bloomberg, donated a complete of $500,000 to a political committee managed by state Sen. Bill Galvano, a Bradenton Republican.

Galvano has come beneath hearth for the donations because the Florida Senate considers a measure that might require unlicensed gun sellers to report, amongst other issues, a purchaser’s identification and felony background history, the make and mannequin of the gun and the date of the sale. The knowledge would have to be notarized and saved.

Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican who opposes the invoice, last week defended Galvano as a supporter of President Donald Trump.

A Jan. 21-23 ballot by Republican pollster Ryan Tyson showed former Vice President Joe Biden leading different Democratic contenders in Florida. The survey of 600 probably voters, which has a 4 % margin of error, confirmed Bloomberg in single digits.

Tyson stated Bloomberg is probably going doing better than the telephone survey suggests. Tyson carried out an internet ballot concurrent with the telephone survey the place members might see a ballot. That survey showed Bloomberg in a three-way tie with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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