“Don’t pick a SAFE Act supporter. That’s the message the state Rifle and Pistol Association is urging its members to tell their local senators as Senate Republicans increasingly consider dumping Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos. The group encouraged its members to tell senators to back Sen. John DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse, to succeed Skelos — instead of Long Island Sen. John Flanagan. “It appears the new majority leader of the NYS Senate is going to be one of the following two men,” wrote Tom King, the head of the Rifle and Pistol Association, yesterday to supporters. “John DeFrancisco a Syracuse based conservative senator who voted against the SAFE Act or John Flannigan (sic) a Long Island base Senator who voted for the SAFE Act. Please call your Senator and urge him to vote for Senator DeFrancisco as the new Majority Leader.” …”
I miss Uncle Joe. He had lots of faults but was a much better leader than Skelos.