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Month: July 2018
Cobb caught lying
Democrat Congressional candidate Tedra Cobb was recorded saying she supports gun bans, but won’t say so in public as it would damage her campaign:
“… “When I was at this thing today, it was the first table I was at, a woman said, ‘How do you feel about assault rifles?’ And I said they should be banned,” Cobb can be heard saying in the video recorded by one of the attendees. “And I said, you know, people were getting up to go, to go get their lunch because it was a buffet, and I just said to her, I want you to know Cindy, I cannot say that.” …”
I decide to be helpful and send copies of the story to the Legislative Corespondents Association.
Republicans jump on Cobb:
Listen to @TedraCobb tell supporters that she supports a gun ban but can't say that on the campaign trail "because she'll lose" #NY21https://t.co/oDTvP7eC14
— Chris Martin (@chrisjdmartin) July 11, 2018
As the video starts becoming more popular, the public is reminded that Cobb took a pledge to run an honest campaign:
“NY-21 Democratic congressional candidate Tedra Cobb has formally committed to The Post-Star‘s no-lies pledge … “I have proven myself to be honest and forthright and I will continue to be that way,” she said …”
Gun control advocates take umbrage at the suggestion they told Cobb to keep quiet:
.@MomsDemand Action refutes claim in video from Cobb that she was advised to not publicly support an assault weapons ban. "We encourage every candidate to be honest and vocal in their support of a wide range of gun violence prevention laws." https://t.co/cj2hiUJClR
— David Lombardo (@poozer87) July 11, 2018
NRA gets in on the act:
Brett Kavanaugh
Trump has nominated D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as his choice for SCOTUS.
He appears solid on gun rights as the L.A. Times reports:
“… [Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh] will move the high court to the right on … gun rights … Kavanaugh appears to support broader gun rights under the 2nd Amendment. In 2011, he filed a 52-page dissent when the appeals court, by a 2-1 vote, upheld a District of Columbia ordinance that prohibited semiautomatic rifles and magazines holding more than 10 rounds … But Kavanaugh said the ban on semiautomatic rifles was unconstitutional because the weapons are in common use in this country. “As one who was born here, grew up in this community in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and has lived and worked in this area almost all of his life, I am acutely aware of the gun, drug and gang violence that has plagued all of us…. But our task is to apply the Constitution and the precedents of the Supreme Court, regardless of whether the result is one we agree with as a matter of first principles or policy,” he wrote …”
Antigunners are not happy:
Judge Kavanaugh’s dangerous views on the Second Amendment are far outside the mainstream of even conservative thought and stand in direct opposition to the values and priorities of the vast majority of Americans.
— Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) July 10, 2018
Judge Kavanaugh made it clear where he stands. He thinks the 2nd Amend says that weapons of war, like AR-15s, belong on our streets. That’s not what Scalia wrote. For the NRA, this is just desserts for a $30+ million contribution to Pres. Trump’s campaign. #SCOTUSnominee
— Avery Gardiner (@AveryWGardiner) July 10, 2018
Brett Kavanaugh is a true Second Amendment radical. He believes assault weapon bans are unconstitutional, a position way out of the judicial mainstream, far to the right of even late Justice Scalia.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 10, 2018
Meanwhile, Governor Cuomo, who had already been attacking Republicans over his “red flag” proposal, started attacking them over abortion:
“Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a gaggle with reporters on Monday in Brooklyn said he plans to call out individual Republicans in the state Senate over the issue of abortion rights in New York. “I’m going to call them all out by name — all out by name,” Cuomo said. Cuomo’s targeting of individual GOP lawmakers is part of a years-long break for him and the Senate Republican conference. The relationship was once a productive one for the governor and the GOP lawmakers who controlled the chamber …”
This relationship was doomed from the start as Republicans never brought anything to the table except themselves. If Judge Kavanaugh is what finally puts an end to Republican “control” of the Senate so be it.
Learn from this
From a syndicated Washington Post article, “Organizers of pro-gun rallies lament low turnout“:
“Student-led rallies around the country on Saturday aimed to show support for gun rights, though their effort drew smaller-than-expected crowds in a bid to counter the well-funded and organized youth gun-control lobby that emerged after the massacre in a Florida high school earlier this year …”
Organizers made two mistakes here.
First, not recognizing the gun control marches were organized by professional astroturf and their media allies and not a genuine expression of student support. There was no way they could duplicate them using only grassroots. The appropriate response would have been to call fraud from the start to delegitimize them.
Second, assuming that rallies are an effective form of political action. They are not. I have covered this many times before. Politicians don’t pay much attention to them as they go on all the time. Only people who can organize votes and money around an issue are taken seriously. Elected officials do not go around asking for people to hold rallies, they ask for help with their election campaigns.
Some examples:
Truitt For Assembly – Dutchess Campaign Kickoff!
Politics is not difficult to understand especially when elected officials come right out and tell you what to do. They want gun owners to help them get on the ballot, come to their fundraisers and give money. The students should learn from this.
Rifle raffle stirs up controversy in Rensselaer
Newsbits
Friday’s Newsbits:
Elections:
Jurisprudence:
Legislation:
Politics:
Proposed Nassau storage law
I have obtained a copy of the proposed Nassau Co. mandatory firearms storage law.
The legislative clerk’s office insisted I file a FOIL before they would give it to me which was absurd. I was able to get a copy from a legislative aide.
Decriminalize it
New York has slowly been moving in the direction of legalizing recreation marijuana.
The legislature should speed up the process:
“A burglar trying to rob a Main Street apartment early today Monday was shot in the hand by the gun-toting tenant, police said. New Rochelle police said Darius Rogers and a second man broke into an apartment at 759 Main St. around 12:49 a.m. Rogers was armed, but so was the tenant, 21-year-old Nicholas Collado, and Collado shot the intruder, police said. The second intruder fled. Rogers was transported to a local hospital and was treated for non-life threatening injuries. He is facing felony charges of first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon …”
Good. He got what he deserved.
“… Police said they found narcotics in the apartment. So, Collado is facing felony charges of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell and second-degree criminal possession of marijuana.”
Decriminalize all of it including the hallucinogenics and get the state out of the drug control business altogether. It is bad policy.
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Newsbits
Tuesday’s Newsbits:
Legislation:
Elections:
- Miner’s minor party isn’t a Republican ploy, but it’s unsure what it is
- Brady Campaign has endorsed Antonio Delgado for Congress in NY’s 19 district
Politics:
- Mount Sinai Leaders Discuss the Future of Medicine at the 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival
- From Awareness to Action: Combating The Epidemic of Gun Violence
Guns: