{"id":1193,"date":"2010-04-07T10:09:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2010-04-07T10:09:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T14:09:08","slug":"koon-not-running-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1193","title":{"rendered":"Koon not running for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it appears <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.timesunion.com\/capitol\/archives\/24404\/paterson-wavers-on-speedy-election-for-ny-29\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Paterson won&#8217;t be calling a special election<\/a> to fill CD-29, <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/?ad=135\" target=\"_blank\">David Koon<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oleantimesherald.com\/articles\/2010\/04\/04\/news\/doc4bb6ad1249fdd005808708.txt\" target=\"_blank\">decided not to run<\/a> for it and will instead go for another term in Albany.<\/p>\n<p>With that out of the way, the question is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1031\">will he reintroduce all the antigun bills<\/a> he killed last month? \u00a0I like this observation from <a href=\"http:\/\/mustardstreet.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/comic-relief.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mustard Street<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; The Democratic Party tolerates David Koon as someone who can milk a sympathy vote to hold that seat in the Assembly &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also milks sympathy votes for the antigun agenda. \u00a0Gun Control Day is two weeks away. \u00a0Plenty of time to resubmit bills.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D1193&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1193\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1193\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=1193\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it appears Gov. Paterson won&#8217;t be calling a special election to fill CD-29, David Koon has decided not to run for it and will instead go for another term in Albany. 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