{"id":13387,"date":"2016-08-18T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13387"},"modified":"2016-08-18T16:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:21:49","slug":"martins-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13387","title":{"rendered":"Martins in trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Martins<\/a> is one of the Long Island Republicans who screwed us over the SAFE Act.\u00a0 Things have not been going well for him since then.<\/p>\n<p>Martins had to give up his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Senate<\/a> seat for a Congressional bid in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latfor.state.ny.us\/maps\/2012c\/CD_map_rep_03.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">CD-3<\/a>.\u00a0 His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theislandnow.com\/news\/pidot-throws-wrench-in-martins-congressional-campaign\/article_67fc15ea-3ed4-11e6-ab61-3f82a1fe5bb8.html\" target=\"_blank\">attempt to block a primary<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidotforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Pidot<\/a> failed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/new-york\/albany\/story\/2016\/08\/judge-forces-gop-primary-in-ny-3-104804\" target=\"_blank\">a judge ordering one in October<\/a>.\u00a0 While he&#8217;ll probably easily win it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nystateofpolitics.com\/2016\/08\/ny-3-d-trip-poll-shows-suozzi-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\">polling shows<\/a> he behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suozziforcongress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Democrat Tom Suozzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The poll is likely biased, but I do believe Martins is in trouble given the Democrat enrollment advantage in the district as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2016\/08\/16\/it-might-be-time-for-republicans-to-start-worrying-about-their-house-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\">the down-ballot Trump effect<\/a>.<\/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%3D13387&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=13387\">&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=13387\"><\/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=13387\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Martins is one of the Long Island Republicans who screwed us over the SAFE Act.\u00a0 Things have not been going well for him since then. 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