{"id":15358,"date":"2017-11-05T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T18:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=15358"},"modified":"2017-11-05T13:31:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T18:31:48","slug":"sheriff-howard-ahead-in-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=15358","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Howard ahead in polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheriffhoward.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nystateofpolitics.com\/2013\/05\/assemblyman-attacks-sheriffs-resistance-to-safe-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a vocal critic of the SAFE Act<\/a> since it&#8217;s inception.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s up for re-election this year and I&#8217;ve been searching for polling data to see how he&#8217;s doing.\u00a0 Erie has an almost 2-1 Democrat enrollment advantage.\u00a0 Only thing I could find was <a href=\"http:\/\/buffalonews.com\/2017\/11\/01\/tolbert-targets-sheriff-on-jail-deaths-while-facing-turnout-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this Buffalo News article<\/a> on his opponent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Even though [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernietolbert.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bernard Tolbert<\/a>] should compete this year as a favorite in heavily Democratic Erie County, most polls show him trailing \u2014 though far from out of it &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good.\u00a0 We need to keep Howard around.<\/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%3D15358&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=15358\">&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=15358\"><\/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=15358\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard has been a vocal critic of the SAFE Act since it&#8217;s inception. He&#8217;s up for re-election this year and I&#8217;ve been searching for polling data to see how he&#8217;s doing.\u00a0 Erie has an almost 2-1 Democrat enrollment advantage.\u00a0 Only thing I could find was this Buffalo News article on his [&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%3D15358&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=15358\">&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=15358\"><\/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=15358\" 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-15358","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\/15358","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=15358"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15361,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15358\/revisions\/15361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}