{"id":13212,"date":"2016-07-04T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13212"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:37:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:37:03","slug":"idc-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13212","title":{"rendered":"IDC committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Senate IDC<\/a> is forming their own campaign committee<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“A group of five breakaway Senate Democrats is creating its own party campaign committee … The Senate Independent Democratic Conference, also known as the IDC, is doing it through an unusual agreement with the minor state Independence Party<\/a>. Under the deal, the Independence Party will create the Senate Independence Campaign Committee that Sen. Jeffrey Klein<\/a> will control … Klein, as part of the deal, said he will not have a say on who the Independence Party endorses. But he\u2019ll use the committee to help fund Independence Party-backed Senate candidates that the IDC also supports …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This stinks.\u00a0 Would not surprise me if Gov. Cuomo was involved behind the scenes<\/a> in this as well.\u00a0 Ditto for John Flanagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“… This fall\u2019s elections will determine which party controls the chamber, with the IDC likely providing the swing votes.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly.<\/p>\n

I don’t see the Senate Republicans<\/a> having an outright majority anymore.\u00a0 Heck, with The Donald doing so badly<\/a> in the state the mainline Democrats<\/a> might even get enough members to give them complete control leaving both Klein and the Republicans out in the cold.<\/p>\n