{"id":14555,"date":"2017-05-25T12:11:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14555"},"modified":"2017-05-25T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:11:23","slug":"curran-v-martins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14555","title":{"rendered":"Curran v. Martins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Charles-D-Lavine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assemblyman Charles Lavine<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/politics\/charles-lavine-exits-race-for-nassau-county-executive-1.13661578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped out of the race for Nassau County Executive<\/a> and endorsed his Democrat opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lauracurran2017.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Laura Curran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI\u2019m certainly grateful to have Chuck\u2019s support in this race&#8230;United we\u2019ll have victory in November.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tdTa51qTb0\">https:\/\/t.co\/tdTa51qTb0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Laura Curran (@LauraCurran2017) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LauraCurran2017\/status\/867769160851480576\">May 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>She still has to get past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgemaragos.com\" target=\"_blank\">George Maragos<\/a> in a Democrat primary, but I don&#8217;t think that will be a problem.  That would make the general election a choice between Curran and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinsfornassau.com\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Jack Martins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both of them stink on ice, but you have to pick one, so go with Curran to stick it to Martins&#8217; for his vote on the SAFE Act.<\/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%3D14555&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=14555\">&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=14555\"><\/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=14555\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assemblyman Charles Lavine has dropped out of the race for Nassau County Executive and endorsed his Democrat opponent Laura Curran. \u201cI\u2019m certainly grateful to have Chuck\u2019s support in this race&#8230;United we\u2019ll have victory in November.\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/tdTa51qTb0 &mdash; Laura Curran (@LauraCurran2017) May 25, 2017 She still has to get past George Maragos in a Democrat primary, [&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%3D14555&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=14555\">&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=14555\"><\/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=14555\" 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555","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=14555"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14562,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14555\/revisions\/14562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}