{"id":13796,"date":"2016-12-16T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2016-12-16T12:03:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T17:03:56","slug":"a-majority-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=13796","title":{"rendered":"A minority majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooksforsenate.org\" target=\"_blank\">John Brooks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/politics\/john-brooks-wins-8th-senate-district-race-officials-say-1.12764312\" target=\"_blank\">has defeated<\/a> incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelvenditto.com\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Venditto<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latfor.state.ny.us\/maps\/2012s\/SD_map_rep_08.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">SD-8<\/a> giving the Democrats a numeric majority of 32 seats in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">State Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/simchafelder.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Simcha Felder<\/a> will continue to caucus with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenategop.net\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans<\/a>, and because the rest of the Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/310292-ny-democrats-call-for-cuomo-to-unite-party\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t have their shit together<\/a>, the GOP will maintain nominal control of the upper chamber.<\/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%3D13796&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=13796\">&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=13796\"><\/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=13796\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Brooks has defeated incumbent Michael Venditto in SD-8 giving the Democrats a numeric majority of 32 seats in the State Senate. 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