The Long Island Herald has endorsed Carolyn McCarthy for re-election:
“… In this race, we encourage voters to return McCarthy to an eighth term because we believe that she has been, and will continue to be, an effective representative … A focus on gun control has paid off for McCarthy, who entered politics in 1997 on a one-issue platform. Two years ago she authored a bill that was signed into law, requiring the National Instant Criminal Background Check System to stop convicted criminals and those with a history of mental illness from buying guns …”
McCarthy herself doesn’t think she’s been very effectively lately according to this article from RealClearPolitics last year:
“Frustrated liberals are asking why a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House can’t manage to close the Guantanamo prison or keep new gun-rights laws from passing … “We’ll probably end up passing more gun bills” that expand owners’ rights “than we did during the Republican administration,” said Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., a leading gun control advocate. “That is what surprises me.” …”
Plus, if she’s been so effective, then why are local Democrats worried about voter turnout?
The bottom line is McCarthy is hardly a powerbroker. She isn’t prime sponsor of any major legislation and her signature issue, gun control, is going nowhere. No matter what the media says, she’s still largely a single issue representative. The Herald’s endorsement is just a weak attempt to pump up her failing career.
we get the The Long Island Herald at my house, i use it to line the table where i clean my guns. that’s about all it’s good for. there are a lot more Becker signs in my neighborhood then McCarthy signs…. She’s going DOWN!!!!
If there was an unbiased media outlet in her area she would have been toast long ago.
Representative McCarthy represents what is wrong with America. Her prohibitionist mentality has proven to be a recipe for disaster. Her willful ignorance of our Constitution has been refuted by the Supreme Court. Her demands for more government gun control at the expense of freedom have cost her party politically.
The coming change in Congress is an appropriate time for her to be swept out of office with those others of her ilk who have an ugly, un-American loathing of freedom. Perhaps she’s competent enough to run a cash register at a retail store somewhere, perhaps not – I don’t care what she does, as long as she has no vote in Congress.
Ignorance is not the problem. The problem is that she simply does not care.
How about, she ignores the Constitution because she doesn’t care? Moreover, what kind of American doesn’t care about our US Constitution? What is someone like that even doing in the US Congress? She should relocate to Mongolia.