Month: March 2013

A real grassroots

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Unlike SEIU, we have a real constituency:

“Their anger at what they see as over-reaching by the government keeping them warm under icy gray skies, as many as 2,000 anti-Cuomo, pro-gun protestors gathered on the front lawn at the Schoharie DAR Saturday in a We The People rally …”

Nobody paid them to show up either.  Even better (for us) or worse (for Gov. Cuomo):

“… Carlisle Supervisor Larry Bradt was instrumental in putting together the rally, organized after supervisors in February blasted the NY SAFE ACT … Friday, supervisors took that a step further by vowing not to spend a dime enforcing it.  “We’re not asking anyone to repeal this law, we’re demanding it,” Mr. Bradt said to loud applause Saturday …”

That’s something else Cuomo neglected to mention, that the counties would be stuck with footing the bill for implementing SAFE as an unfunded mandate.

Cuomo’s popularity decline

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Gov. Cuomo’s popularity continues to decline:

“Half of New York’s Republicans disapprove of the job Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doing, the first time the Democrat’s popularity has dropped so low among GOP voters since taking office two years ago, according to a new poll out by Quinnipiac University.  Among the state’s Republicans, 49 percent disapprove of the job Cuomo is doing, compared with 38 percent who approve of the governor’s work … The results underline the growing divide Cuomo is facing among voters across regional and especially party lines since signing the NY Safe Act into law on Jan. 15 …”

This in spite of the fact that I have not seen a single media outlet accurately describe what exactly the SAFE Act does.  Plus, downstate media are going out of their way to ignore SAFE opposition.

SEIU astroturf

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SEIU astroturf tried holding a pro-SAFE Act rally in Buffalo.  According to WIVB:

“… Dozens of people gathered at Martin Luther King Park to show support for New York’s new gun law, the SAFE Act. …”

We had 12,000 people in Albany last month and nobody was paid to show up.

Why SEIU supports SAFE Act

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Brain Lehrer interviewed SEIU 1199 President George Gresham on his radio program today on why the union is supporting the SAFE Act

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I give credit to Lehrer for asking if Gresham is doing this just for political purposes to solidify his relationship with (suck up to) Gov. Cuomo.  I call BS on Gresham’s answer, though.

Schneiderman’s public relations stunts

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Eric Schniederman sent out a glowing presser yesterday touting the “new” procedures gun show operators will follow in the state:

“… “Gun violence is everyone’s concern, and I’m proud that we’ve worked with gun show operators to create simple procedures to ensure that deadly weapons don’t make it into the hands of felons, terrorists, the dangerously mentally ill, or anyone else who could not pass a background check,” Attorney General Schneiderman said.  “These procedures are unique to New York State and represent the first time law enforcement and gun show operators are working together to eliminate illegal gun sales.  Since most people who operate and attend gun shows are law abiding citizens, my office has had nothing but positive responses to these new safety standards.” …”

Sounds serious doesn’t it?  Serious, unless one bothers to actually find out what these new procedures mean.  Schneiderman, of course, was counting on the media not to do that, which they didn’t, except for one inquisitive reporter for the NY Times who asked my opinion:

“… Jacob J. Rieper, the vice president of legislative and political affairs for the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, suggested the new changes were largely cosmetic.   “The only new procedure in place at the last gun show I went to consisted of a single white piece of paper taped onto each dealer table that said a NICS check was required for sales,” Mr. Rieper said, referring to the background check. “That’s it.  No doubt countless lives will be saved because of it.” …”

This isn’t Schniderman’s only recent PR stunt.  He’s also written to the NFL commissioner to express his concern for gay football players.

An NRA-ACLU partnership

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There is an excellent op-ed at FoxNews titled, “The five minute NRA speech that would change the gun control debate forever,” where the author suggests the NRA partner with the ACLU to find solutions to the mentally ill going on violent rampages.

NRA should seriously consider this.  It would be a vast improvement from that godawful press conference they gave after Newtown.

Think of the children

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Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal cares about the children:


She just doesn’t care enough about them to do something about the 1 in 3 students who don’t graduate from schools in her Manhattan district.

Bloomberg planned to exploit tradegy

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Politicker reports that Mayor Mike planned ahead of time to exploit the next tradegy:

“When the smoke cleared at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in the wee hours of a Friday morning last July, 12 people were dead, 58 were injured and Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in New York, readying an assault of his own.  The campaign that Mr. Bloomberg and his “gun team” came up with in the hours and days after Aurora involved carpet-bombing Washington with millions from the mayor’s immense fortune and a media blitz that would be deployed following the next massacre … The next time a tragedy like Aurora went down, he would be ready …”

This isn’t a surprise, but it does tell a lot about Bloomberg’s character.  Instead of trying to figure out about how to best prevent such mass killings, his main concern was how to exploit them in order to advance his political agenda.

Fred Dicker slams Cuomo spokesman

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Fred Dicker rips into Gov. Cuomo’s secretary Larry Schwartz on his radio program yesterday.

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