Putnam Co. Fish & Game is putting together a van to go to Albany on the 12th.
Will Elliot mentions lobby day in his column in the Buffalo News.
Another potential Democrat challenger for Kirsten Gillibrand, Harold Ford:
“Encouraged by a group of influential New York Democrats, Harold Ford Jr., the former congressman from Tennessee, is weighing a bid to unseat Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand in this fall’s Democratic primary … Mr. Ford, 39, who moved to New York three years ago, has told friends that he will decide whether to run in the next 45 days …”
Ford was NRA F rated when he was in Congress.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reports on MAIG’s agenda in their article “‘Blueprint’ To Stop Illegal Guns From Entering Brooklyn Revealed.” Here is a copy of the actual plan. This quote from Mayor Mike is telling:
“… “Every day in our county, 32 Americans are killed by gun-wielding criminals — that’s a Virginia Tech-scale tragedy happening every single day,” said coalition co-chair and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. “Enacting these 40 recommendations will save lives — and each can be done administratively, without action by the Congress …”
Trying to do an end run around the legislature is a familiar tactic for him, but he’s also basically admitting Congress won’t act on his proposals. If gun control were really as popular as he says it is then he should not be having problems advancing an upfront legislative agenda.