{"id":17860,"date":"2018-10-24T13:35:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=17860"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:35:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:35:16","slug":"meet-the-candidates-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=17860","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/stanford-grange-no-808-stanfordville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"st\">Stanford Grange #808<\/span><\/a> held a Meet the Candidates event last night.\u00a0 Those which bothered to show up included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judgemartinfamilycourt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.didibarrett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Assemblywoman Didi Barrett<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/truitt4ny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dutchess County Legislator Will Truitt<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/karen4nysenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Smythe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"..\/images\/stanfordville102318.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/images\/stanfordville102318.jpg\" alt=\"Standfor Grange #808 Meet the Candidates\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I asked the legislative candidates to state their position on current legislation to repeal the SAFE Act (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2017\/A5599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A-5599<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/legislation\/bills\/2017\/S1997\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">S-1997<\/a><\/strong>).\u00a0 Both Barrett and Smythe are antigun, but I wanted them to say so in public.<\/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%3D17860&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=17860\">&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=17860\"><\/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=17860\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford Grange #808 held a Meet the Candidates event last night.\u00a0 Those which bothered to show up included Jeffrey Martin, Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, Dutchess County Legislator Will Truitt and Karen Smythe. 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