Gun Politics New York

It would seem George Pataki is taking a much more serious look at running for President than I would have thought.  See PolitickerNY’s post, “Peeking at George Pataki’s Presidential Campaign Site.”

Why he’s considering jumping into the race I do not know.  My only guess is to provide comic relief during the ’12 election cycle.  That is the only explanation I can come up with as his beta website apparently contained a section called “Pataki’s Record.”  That is the last thing he would want to highlight in a campaign.

There’s a good article (with an excellent headline) over at WNYC on why George Pataki will not be running for president, ““I really don’t know what he’s smoking”: Pataki presidential run rumors don’t add up.”  Some quotes:

“… to think, with his values, he would stand a chance in a Republican—in a right-wing Republican—primary, that is really ludicrous …”

“… Having to come to term with the labor unions, his spending record, his record on social issues, suggest it would be very hard to get nominated …”

“… I don’t remember anyone saying, ‘Pataki, remember the good old days?’” …”

Contrast that with this nonsense from Fred Dicker, “GOP big pushes Giuliani for vice prez“.  Now go back to the first article and re-read it substituting “Rudy Giuliani” for “George Pataki” and see what you get.  Same article, right?

Despite the heavy Democrat enrollment advantage, the race to fill Anthony Weiner’s Congressional seat is quite close according to the latest poll with Democrat David Weprin leading Republican Bob Turner by 6%.

On RKBA issues, Turner is an unknown.  His main attract is that he is not Weprin, who earned an F based upon his record in both the Clown Council and State Assembly.

The one time Weprin tried taking up the gun issue was when he was in the Clown Council and wanted to prohibit toy guns on the grounds that criminals paint them black and use them to commit crimes.  Weprin felt the need to do some grandstanding and called a press conference.  Not content to simply stand there and bullshit the media about an issue nobody cares about, Weprin decided a live action demonstration was in order.  He had hidden a fully loaded water pistol down the front of his pants.  At the appropriate time it was his intention to pull it out, dramatically proving his point.

Problem was the gun had gotten caught up with his gentleman’s sausage.  When he reached in to pull the toy out, it discharged it’s load of H2O down the front of his pants in full view of the assembled media.  Any normal person would have been embarrassed, but Weprin comes from a family of professional politicians and kept right on going.  He even reintroduced the bill the next year, although he decided to forgo with the theatrics.

Weprin is a career politician who got in based upon his father’s name and has pretty much coasted along without doing much of anything important.  He doesn’t even live in the district.  If elected he’ll reliably vote antigun, although I doubt he’d be at the forefront of the issue.