{"id":15514,"date":"2017-12-13T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=15514"},"modified":"2017-12-13T13:52:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:52:57","slug":"our-first-contestant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=15514","title":{"rendered":"Our first contestant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/politics\/index.ssf\/2017\/12\/assembly_minority_leader_brian_kolb_plans_to_run_for_governor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first Republican to formally announce<\/a> their intention to run for Governor next year is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kolbfornewyork.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Kolb, 65, has <a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Brian-M-Kolb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">represented the Finger Lakes Region in the Assembly<\/a> since 2000. He became the GOP leader in 2009. He has extensive business experience as the former president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.refractron.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Refractron Technologies<\/a> and a co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nafcoinc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North American Filter Corporation<\/a> &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tim Callery helped Kolb get elected back in 2000 and he has been reliably pro-gun since then.\u00a0 Kolb is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NRA<\/a> member.<\/p>\n<p>On the downside he has little money or resources and next to no name recognition south of Albany.\u00a0 I have doubts as to his ability to go the distance even in a Republican primary.<\/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%3D15514&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=15514\">&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=15514\"><\/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=15514\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Republican to formally announce their intention to run for Governor next year is Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb: &#8220;&#8230; Kolb, 65, has represented the Finger Lakes Region in the Assembly since 2000. He became the GOP leader in 2009. He has extensive business experience as the former president of Refractron Technologies and a [&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%3D15514&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=15514\">&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=15514\"><\/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=15514\" 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":[34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2018","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514","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=15514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15518,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15514\/revisions\/15518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}