12%

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With an overwhelming Democrat enrollment advantage, the chances of a Republican knocking Bill de Blasio out were going to be slim at best.

Early on, I thought Paul Massey might at least make a respectable showing based upon his ability to raise a lot of money.  He did raise a lot and then promptly blew it, causing him to drop out of the race last month.

The GOP establishment got behind Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, who decided to alienate everybody by supporting both the SAFE Act and stop-and-frisk.

The result of this?

She currently polls just under 12%.

 

County Clerks Rip Pistol Re-certification Deadline

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Madison Co. sheriff candidates

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The Observer-Dispatch has an article on the two candidates running for Madison County Sheriff this fall.

Each was asked about the SAFE Act and each gave a similar non-answer answer about streamlining the pistol license application process.

This is true

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Some excerpts from a letter to the Buffalo News:

“Every time I go by a “Repeal the SAFE Act” sign I still have to chuckle … Now there is even a proposal to repeal the SAFE Act upstate. Some Western New York legislators spend more time talking about repeal on the campaign trail than they do in the Legislature … Even Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan candidly acknowledged that repeal is done. “I think on a very practical level most people don’t believe the SAFE Act is going to be repealed.” …”

The author speaks the truth, especially the part about legislators talking about repeal, but doing nothing about it in the legislature.

The bills A-6140/S-679C were introduced and no action was taken on either of them.  Why didn’t Republican legislators attempt to link passage of this proposal with state budget negotiations?  If the Senate sponsor’s were serious why didn’t they make a Motion for Committee Consideration?  If the Assembly sponsor’s were serious why didn’t they make a Motion to Discharge?

The reality is that even if the Republican’s were serious there’s just not enough of them and they do not have the political clout to move agenda items like this anymore.  The New York party is not functioning and in the not too distant future they will become a permanent minority party in the state.

New Yorkers for Gun Safety closes down

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The election committee New Yorkers for Gun Safety appears to be kaput. What little money remained in the PAC was transferred to the State Democratic Committee.

It was never a real grassroots organization.  It was created by Governor Cuomo under the NYSDC to push the SAFE Act.  They kept the account open for some reason since ’13 and now it has a $0.00 balance.

It can be looked at as both a success and failure.  It was successful in pushing SAFE, but it was a failure in generating any sort of residuals.  Gun control is less popular now than 5 years ago and Cuomo’s standing as a national leader on the issue only hurt him.

Antigun advocates are unlikely to learn anything from this.

Brown leading in Buffalo

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The Buffalo News reports that incumbent Buffalo Mayor Byron brown is seriously ahead in fundraising over his Democrat rivals:

“Mayor Byron W. Brown has more than a half million dollars in his campaign chest, far ahead of his opponents in the Democratic primary for City Hall’s top job. The three-term incumbent in the last six months raised almost $440,000, four times more than Mark J.F. Schroeder, the city comptroller, raised and 70 times as much as Betty Jean Grant, an Erie County legislator …”

Brown’s record on guns has been mixed: poor while in the Senate, but he notably did not come out in support of the SAFE Act.

Schroeder consistently supported gun rights while in the Assembly.

Grant has not been supportive of gun rights while in the county legislature.

The race will likely be decided during the Democrat primary where turnout will be low.  Knowing this, for the primary, gun owners choices should be:

  1. Schroeder
  2. Brown
  3. Grant

Scaramucci likes Cuomo

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Anthony Scaramucci is deleting some of his Twitter history in an attempt to cover up comments critical of the President.

He can’t cover up his history of campaign contributions, though:

Trump’s new communications director is antigun

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The Donald’s new communications director is antigun:

Lawyers oppose reciprocity bill

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The American Bar Association has come out in opposition to reciprocity bills H.R.38/S.446:

“… ABA President Linda A. Klein calls the legislation “a dangerous proposal” that would tie states’ hands in setting concealed-carry standards. All states allow some form of concealed carry, but standards vary, Klein said. The reciprocity requirement “offends deeply rooted principles of federalism where public safety is traditionally the concern of state and local government,” Klein says in the letters (PDFs) here and here. If the proposal were to become law, “a state’s ability to consider safety factors—such as age, evidence of dangerousness, live firearm training, or criminal records—would give way to other states’ less stringent requirements,” Klein said. “Unlike some efforts of Congress to create minimum safety standards, this bill could lead to no safety standards as more states enact laws to allow persons to carry concealed firearms without a permit.” …”

Someone’s been getting talking points from Bloomberg & Company.

It is also safe to speculate that antigunners in Congress asked for the ABA’s help in defeating this proposal.

White House petition for H.R.38

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There is a online petition National Reciprocity for the Nation’s 17 Million Concealed Handgun Permit Holders! worth a few moments of everyone’s time.

Normally I don’t care about online petitions, but since this is on whitehouse.gov if it receives 100,000 signatures, there will be an official acknowledgement from the White House.  Since The Donald’s legislative agenda on healthcare and taxes hasn’t been going so well, perhaps this will motivate him to move on 2A.