The Island Now reports that Laura Curran leads Jack Martins in fundraising:
“Democrat Laura Curran has a cash advantage of nearly $250,000 over Republican Jack Martins in the Nassau County executive race … Curran raised more than $718,000 from January to July 13, more than twice the roughly $357,000 Martins took in after launching his campaign in April. Curran closed the six-month reporting period with $577,644 on hand to Martins’ $338,953. County Comptroller George Maragos, Curran’s Democratic primary opponent, still has the largest war chest of the three candidates, leaving $1,288,023 in the bank as of last week after spending $235,274. Maragos previously loaned his campaign $1.5 million and is not taking contributions from special-interest donors. He raised only $3,406 from January to last week …”
Maragos twice ran for Senate as a Republican before switching to the Democrats to run for Comptroller. I have doubts as to how much actual support he would have in a Democrat primary. Although he has not made any solid position statements one way or another on 2A rights, gun owners should support him in a primary based upon Curran’s past support for gun control. He’s probably going to lose, but this is the only way to register an opinion.
That leaves Curran v. Martins in the general election and both of them stink.
In spite of that, gun owners should hold their nose and vote for Curran. Her one (and only) positive aspect is that she is not Jack Martins. Giving Martins the finger for voting for the SAFE Act is all that is on the table for Nassau Co. gun owners this fall.