Month: August 2018

Monday’s Newsbits:

Elections:

• Virginia Perez set for primary face-off with state Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins
• McMurray touts centrist views, blasts GOP as Republicans seek Collins replacement

Politics:

• Wayne LaPierre is a loser in City & State’s weekly Winners & Losers
• EDITORIAL: Cuomo, NRA fight’s bigger than NY
• Cuomo questions how NRA can be broke AND fund a $1M effort to get Trump Supreme Court nominee confirmed
• Parkland school shooting survivors join advocates in the Bronx in call for new gun laws
• Lowville Police Department adds shotguns thanks to NRA grant

The Pine Tree Rifle Club in Johnstown is one of my favorites because these guys do stuff and are not afraid to invite politicos to the club.

More clubs need to do this. The excuse I most often is hear is that doing so would jeopardize their tax status. Nonsense.

Governor Cuomo is running his anti-NRA advertisement on WABC-TV during the 5 o’clock newscast.

He has 36+ million dollars in his campaign account, but still it cannot be cheap running ads during prime-time in the NYC market.

Thursday’s Newsbits:

Elections:

• Everytown is hiring a “Campaigns Desk” staff based in NYC to help co-ordinate election activities this fall
• NRA sends out candidate questionnaire highlighting its agenda — including to Gov. Cuomo, with whom it’s warring
• Governor Cuomo responds to NRA “…by the way, I’ll see you in court.”
• Cuomo’s State Senate Deal Unravels As Rogue Democrats’ Rivals Gain Momentum
• Peter Harckham, Robert Kesten primary takes aim at Trump, Sen. Terrence Murphy

Politics:

• Andrew Cuomo is now at war with the Bill of Rights
• New York and other states are targeting the NRA’s bottom line
• Avella Receives Gun Control Award from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
• Rensselaer Democrats push initiatives at County Legislature

Saw this in my Twitter feed:

This is the reason Planned Parenthood gets taken seriously in Albany and NRA does not. When someone goes against PP’s agenda, they pull their support. NRA does not.

Governor Cuomo is running a new ad touting his latest pissing contest with the NRA:

What Cuomo said at 0:13 is very instructive for those unaware of Albany politics. He makes it clear he has no respect for his opposition, will get in their face and do whatever it takes to humiliate and defeat them.

There is only one way to respond to this: Do the exact same thing back at the Governor.

Back in May I suggested NRA tell members to Vote for the Homo, Not the Cuomo in the Democrat primary. Cynthia Nixon is already driving Cuomo nuts and the possibility of tens of thousands of NRA members voting against him in a primary where turnout is already expected to be low would force him to spend a lot of time and money defending himself and further weaken his standing on the national level. It is the only things guys like Cuomo understand.