About 1500 people showed up in Albany to lobby their legislators in the LOB/CAP yesterday. Here is some of the media coverage we got:
- Syracuse News 10, “Rally for Second Amendment“
- Times Union, “NRA and the Belly of the Beast“
- Journal News, “Sportsmen Descend On Capitol“. Also at the Democrat & Chroncile.
- Troy Record, “NRA’s big gun rolls into Albany“
- Binghamton News Channel 34 , “A keynote address was given by Wayne LaPierre, CEO and Executive Vice President of the NRA“
- Gotham Gazette, “Schimel Plays Defense on Microstamping“
- WTEN, “NRA leader comes to Albany for gun rally“
- WNYT, “Gun group rallies in Albany“
- Post-Standard, “Sportsmen’s Albany lobbying trip aimed to catch the attention of lawmakers“
- Capitol News 9, “Rally for the Second Amendment“
- Dick Nelson, “Sportsmen present a united front“
- The Saratogian, “NRA holds rally in Albany: Second Amendment rights at issue“
Shelly didn’t like this. The Assembly usually goes into session mid-afternoon, but he called it in the morning so as to keep gunnies away from their Assemblymen. He also booked all the conference rooms so there was no place to gather other than the Well and the reps. offices.
Michelle Schimel (who is on the NYAGV Board) didn’t like it either, which probably had to do with her having to walk through all those gunnies in order to get to her office. She passed around a letter attacking the NRA on microstamping. It was lame.
Shelly (and Bloomy) would have been happy with Newsdays’ editorial about Lobby day.
No matter who owns that rag (Cablevision I think now) every article about 2A reads like an editorial.