{"id":16227,"date":"2018-03-11T10:03:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T14:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=16227"},"modified":"2018-03-11T10:03:27","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T14:03:27","slug":"better-choice-for-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=16227","title":{"rendered":"Better choice for Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Poughkeepsie Journal reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro<\/a> hasn’t even publicly launched his campaign for governor. Behind the scenes, though, Molinaro’s maneuvering already has him within striking distance of locking up the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo<\/a> in the fall. The Dutchess Republican has secured about 41 percent of the weighted vote of New York’s Republican delegates in the last week, assuming they vote for who their county chairs endorsed …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good.\u00a0 Senator John DeFrancisco’s campaign<\/a> has been as bad as Brian Kolb’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the Republicans are to have any chance of knocking out Cuomo their candidate needs to be a contrast to the current administration.\u00a0 Molinaro has done a decent enough job as County Executive so he can run on that.\u00a0 There are no major scandals in his administration to distract from real issues and he’s not eligible for AARP<\/a> which is a big plus.<\/p>\n