{"id":14449,"date":"2017-04-25T12:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T16:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14449"},"modified":"2017-04-25T12:54:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T16:54:02","slug":"race-to-the-bottom-in-nassau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14449","title":{"rendered":"Race to the bottom in Nassau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Martins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jack Martins<\/a> entering the race for Nassau County Executive, it has now officially become a race to the bottom for that office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/politics\/jack-martins-to-run-for-nassau-county-executive-1.13519136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsday reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Former Republican State Sen. Jack Martins will enter the race for Nassau County executive &#8230; Martins, a former Mineola mayor who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year, is expected to secure the nomination of the Nassau Republican Party when it meets Thursday, according to a senior party source &#8230; Martins, 49, of Old Westbury, is expected to announce his candidacy officially Wednesday at Village Hall in Mineola &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I thoroughly covered Martins&#8217; congressional campaign last year so no need to rehash all that.\u00a0 He&#8217;s a piece of crap.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Charles-D-Lavine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Charles Lavine<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/politics\/spin-cycle\/assemb-charles-lavine-ban-firearms-after-hate-crime-convictions-1.13514619\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced companion legislation<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14410\">Danial Squadron&#8217;s phony hate crimes bill<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2017\/A7395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A-7395<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2017\/S5569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">S-5569<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This leaves <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeMaragos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Maragos<\/a> as the best choice for 2A voters.<\/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%3D14449&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=14449\">&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=14449\"><\/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=14449\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Jack Martins entering the race for Nassau County Executive, it has now officially become a race to the bottom for that office. Newsday reports: &#8220;Former Republican State Sen. Jack Martins will enter the race for Nassau County executive &#8230; Martins, a former Mineola mayor who ran unsuccessfully for Congress last year, is expected to [&hellip;]<\/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%3D14449&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=14449\">&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=14449\"><\/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=14449\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2017","category-state-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14454,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14449\/revisions\/14454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}