All about guns, legislation and politics in New York
Monday’s Newsbits:
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Republicans have chosen Chele Farley to run against Kirsten Gillibrand this fall. Here is her introductory video:
In one of her first media interviews Farley went on the attack:
“… “When she was in the House, she was known as ‘Annie Oakley,’” Chele Chiavacci Farley told John Catsimatidis on his AM 970 radio show Sunday. “And now in the Senate people laugh and they call her ‘Jane Fonda.’ That’s quite a change to the left.” Gillibrand, from Brunswick in Rensselaer County, once had an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association. But she has become an outspoken critic of the NRA and the need for stricter gun laws …”
I know nothing about Farley and she has zero name recognition.
As a follow-up to my previous post, the Watertown Daily Times reports, “St. Lawrence County lawmakers cite ethics issues with judges as pistol permit officer in resolution“:
“St. Lawrence County lawmakers want the state to grant authority for counties to remove judges as pistol licensing officers. In a resolution passed during the county’s Finance Committee meeting Monday, legislators unanimously passed a resolution urging the county’s state representatives to pass legislation regarding pistol licensure to create uniformity statewide … The resolution states that the legislators have long been concerned with the manner in which the pistol licensing occurs in St. Lawrence County, specifically with respect to the addition of restrictions, and asks state lawmakers, among other things, to grant counties the ability to designate a pistol licensing officer other than a judge … Monday’s resolution came after the Dec. 7 opinion issued by the state Advisory Committee on Judicial Ethics that states “a judge who serves as a firearm licensing officer must not initiate licensing revocation/suspension proceedings … nor conduct one without a prosecuting agency.” …”
There is state legislation designating county sheriff’s as the licensing agent A-6912/S-908, but SLC legislators are not specifically endorsing it.
Here are copies of the resolution and advisory committee opinion in PDF format:
Thursday’s Newsbits:
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The pistol license recertification deadline was yesterday and it’s obvious most people have not complied.
The Lockport Journal reports that Governor Cuomo doesn’t care:
“… Niagara County Clerk Joseph Jastrzemski and local legislators say they’re disappointed that Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn’t heed their calls to delay the deadline. “I’m very disappointed,” Jastrzemski said … “We called for the extension and the extension was not listened to, and the law remains as it is. And the governor is going to have to deal with the consequences from not extending it,” state Sen. Rob Ortt said in a statement Wednesday …”
Actually, license holders are the ones who have to deal with consequences, not Cuomo. The Republicans can’t even put up a creditable challenger to him.
Sheriff Chris Moss, who ran for Lt. Governor along side Rob Astorino back in ’14, will hold his campaign kickoff for Chemung County Executive tomorrow at 5:00pm at the Holiday Inn Elmira-Riverview. The public is welcome to attend.
Some rumormongering: George Marlin, the former Executive Director of the Port Authority of NY & NJ, is considering running for Governor on the Conservative Party line only.
He blogs at streetcornerconservative.com and his op-eds have appeared in the NY Post, National Review and elsewhere.
Tuesday’s Newsbits:
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The deadline for pistol license recertification is this Wednesday. All indications point to a major clusterfuck with somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 to 1 million license holders not complying for one reason or another.
Some Republican legislators have sent out glowing press releases about how they’ve introduced legislation to extend the deadline.
It’s nothing but cheap, political theater.
First, look at the bills. The Senate bill S-7343 extends the deadline through March. The Assembly bill A-9086 introduced a couple weeks later extends it through January 2019. Legislators are clearly not on the same page.
Second, and this is the most important, is that neither sponsors have made even the slightest effort to advance their bills. With so little time remaining Republicans have one option left, make a Motion to Discharge to move their bills out of committee and to the floor.
In years past, Senate Democrats would try this to advance antigun bills and the Motions were always defeated along party lines. I cannot recall Assembly Republicans ever doing it for pro-gun bills. If they did now I would expect the same result, but it would at least highlight the issue. As for the Senate, this would require Republican Senators going against their own “leadership” who voted for SAFE in the first place. That is something they would never do.
Thus is exposed the fraud Republicans are trying to put over on the public. They have no desire to stand up for gun rights. They’re just hoping for some good press to quiet down angry constituents and hopefully get them through their next elections.