{"id":14500,"date":"2017-05-12T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14500"},"modified":"2017-05-12T19:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T23:26:21","slug":"latimer-scores-democratic-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14500","title":{"rendered":"Latimer scores Democratic nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senator George Latimer<\/a> received the endorsement<\/a> of the Westchester Democrats<\/a> to run against Rob Astorino<\/a> this fall.<\/p>\n

It could be both a good and bad thing, but it isn’t what I was hoping for.<\/p>\n

The good is that Democrats are not united around one candidate as Legislator Ken Jenkins<\/a> intends to run in a primary.\u00a0 Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1 in the county and party disunity benefits Astorino.<\/p>\n

The bad is if Jenkins got the nod he would have had to give up his seat on the county board<\/a> to run for county executive where if he lost he’d be out.\u00a0 I do not think he has to do that for a primary where if he loses he can still run for his old legislative seat in the general election.\u00a0 If Latimer loses either the primary or general election he stays in the Senate<\/a>.\u00a0 I would have preferred to have had the opportunity to be rid of one antigunner but that is less likely to happen now.<\/p>\n