Elections 2025 – Gun Politics New York

Jenkins appoints Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce

On: January 11, 2025 By: admin

Ken Jenkins has taken over as interim Westchester County Executive.

One of his first actions was to fully appoint members to the so-called Westchester County Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say this taskforce will propose throwing money into warm and fuzzy sounding social programs with little oversight as well as endorsing whatever new gun control schemes the antis come up with.

A special election is set for February 11 to fill the remainder of George Latimer’s term.

Newsbits

On: January 8, 2025January 8, 2025 By: admin

Wednesday’s Newsbits:

Elections:

Stec announces run for Congress in anticipated NY-21 special election

Jurisprudence:

Legislation:

New gun laws rolling out in multiple states on Jan. 1, 2025: Here’s what to know

Politics:

Race to succeed Stefanik

On: December 29, 2024 By: admin

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is joining the incoming Trump administration which will trigger a special election sometime in the next few months.

Dan Stec has already declared his candidacy and Fox News has a breakdown of some of the other potential candidates from both parties. Stec and other Republicans Robert Smullen and Chris Tague would be fine from a 2A perspective as would Steve McLaughlin, although I don’t see him giving up his current job. They all have voting records to go on.

At this point I’m thinking Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino would be the best choice. I’m not aware of his stance on gun rights, but I suspect he would be more aggressive in pushing the Trump agenda especially on gun rights than the others would.

Scarsdale’s Tim Foley announced his candidacy

On: December 18, 2024 By: admin

Scarsdale10583.com reports:

“Scarsdale’s Tim Foley has announced his candidacy to represent us in the Westchester County Legislature. The term of long-time legislator Ben Boykin will expire and Foley will be on the ballot for the position in June 2025 … I helped take on the NRA to treat gun violence as the public health threat that it is …”

Newsbits

On: December 11, 2024December 11, 2024 By: admin

Wednesday’s Newsbits:

Elections:

Former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield announces run for Buffalo mayor

Jurisprudence:

NRA:

Politics:

NYC bodega owner who shot armed robbers with gun he ‘found’ is hit with weapons charges — but supporters promise a fight

Two new resolutions introduced to City Council

On: December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 By: admin

Councilwoman Crystal Hudson has introduced two new virtue signalling resolutions to the Clown Council:

RES 681-2024 calls on the State Legislature to pass, and the Governor to sign, S-9904, in relation to defining the term mass shooting for purposes of emergency response measures and access to emergency funding.
RES 682-2024 calls on the State Legislature to pass, and the Governor to sign, S-9905, in relation to establishing the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and the Gun Violence Advisory Council.

These garbage bills exist primarily to help divert state monies to the cronies of electeds. They are both sponsored by Senator Zellnor Myrie who just so happens wants to run for Mayor next year. I will make an educated guess and say that Hudson’s main motivation is to use these resolutions to help aid Myrie’s mayoral campaign.