{"id":14858,"date":"2017-07-30T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14858"},"modified":"2017-07-30T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T19:46:26","slug":"gipson-considering-challenging-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14858","title":{"rendered":"Gipson considering challenging Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some rumormongering<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“After losing re-election in 2014 and then a rematch last year, former Sen. Terry Gipson<\/a> appears to have a new target: Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a>. The former Democratic senator from the Hudson Valley recently wrote to progressive groups in New York saying he is considering a primary against the governor in 2018, when Cuomo plans to seek a third term. “I\u2019m a former NY State Senator (D) and believe that New York deserves a real Democratic governor that will lead our party and move true Democratic policy forward,” Gipson wrote in an email July 19 to the group, NY Progressive Action Network<\/a> …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It is no secret that a lot of Democrats are unhappy with Cuomo and would like to see him primaried.\u00a0 However, no big name candidates such as Eric Schneiderman<\/a> have stepped up to the plate.\u00a0 If Gipson did make a run he would likely receive a sizeable amount of money from far-left groups, but unlike Zephyr Teachout<\/a>, Gipson isn’t well known outside Dutchess County and his credentials largely consist of him bitching about Cuomo on Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0 It would take much more than that to pose a serious threat to the Governor’s re-election plans.<\/p>\n