The counting and recounting is still not done, but I think it is likely the Republicans will control the State Senate next session. That should help keep antigun legislation bottled up, although I question whether Dean Skelos has the sort of control over his conference the same way Joe Bruno did.
In any event, unless there is a serious effort made by the Republicans to reach out to the grassroots and Joe Citizen, sooner or later the Democrats will take the majority in both houses. There’s no reason they should not have picked up the two seats in Westchester, let alone blowing SD-38 in Rockland.
Does Skelos have any desire to keep anti 2A bills bottled up?
Does he care??
In so far as enough of the GOP leaders seem to realize that supporting gun control now will not benefit them later at the ballot box. Plus, the biggest antigun Republican Frank Padvan lost.
“Does Skelos have any desire to keep anti 2A bills bottled up?
Does he care??”
i did call his office during the microstamping bill and other anti 2A bills that i was conerned with and ALWAYS got a positive fedback from his office. so in my opinion he does seem to care….
He cares about GOP control of the Senate and correctly assumed that was not going to happen if they supported microstamping.