{"id":14924,"date":"2017-08-13T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14924"},"modified":"2017-08-13T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T16:39:31","slug":"ecdc-chair-brings-up-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=14924","title":{"rendered":"ECDC Chair brings up SAFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nystateofpolitics.com\/2017\/08\/ecdc-chair-questions-kearns-connection-to-assembly-dem-fundraiser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Politics reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; The chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecdems.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erie County Democratic Committee<\/a> has questioned why <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mickey_Kearns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assemblyman Mickey Kearns\u2019s<\/a> name appeared on the invitation to a Thursday night fundraiser for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysdacc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee<\/a> &#8230; Democratic members of the Western New York delegation co-hosted the event \u2013 including Kearns &#8230;&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess would be because Kearns is a life-long registered Democrat who ran as a Democrat for <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zellnerforecdc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECDC Chairman Jeremy Zellner<\/a> said that raises a conflict, because Kearns is currently running on the Republican ticket for Erie County Clerk, and is also in a primary for the Conservative line. \u201cWhose side is Mickey on?\u201d Zellner asked. \u201cThe Assembly Democrats are champions of &#8230; the SAFE Act &#8230; I hardly think Republicans and Conservatives feel that way. Where does Mickey truly stand on these issues?\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given that Kearns voted against SAFE I think his position on that issue is quite clear.<\/p>\n<p>It is also clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/buffalonews.com\/2017\/04\/12\/gop-back-democrat-kearns-clerk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zellner does not like him<\/a> and is trying to use gun control as a way to score cheap political points against Kearns.\u00a0 I do not see it having much of an effect.<\/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%3D14924&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=14924\">&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=14924\"><\/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=14924\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Politics reports: &#8220;&#8230; The chairman of the Erie County Democratic Committee has questioned why Assemblyman Mickey Kearns\u2019s name appeared on the invitation to a Thursday night fundraiser for the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee &#8230; Democratic members of the Western New York delegation co-hosted the event \u2013 including Kearns &#8230;&#8221; My guess would be [&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%3D14924&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=14924\">&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=14924\"><\/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=14924\" 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":[33,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2017","category-politics","category-state-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924","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=14924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14929,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14924\/revisions\/14929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}