{"id":18281,"date":"2019-01-02T12:51:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18281"},"modified":"2019-01-02T12:51:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T17:51:11","slug":"paying-off-cronies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=18281","title":{"rendered":"Paying off cronies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-cuomo-announces-more-31-million-funding-combat-gun-violence-across-new-york-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From Governor Cuomo&#8217;s office<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced more than $3.1 million to fund SNUG, New York&#8217;s street outreach program, in seven communities across the state. The SNUG program aims to curb gun violence and save lives by intervening in the aftermath of shootings to prevent retaliation, working with high-risk youth to connect them to services and programs, and other community engagement initiatives &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By &#8220;community engagement initiatives&#8221; the Governor means funneling money to operations run by his political cronies who, in turn, use the money to essentially pay off violent degenerates in their districts.\u00a0 Four years ago <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/5gkneb\/how-an-anti-gang-program-in-harlem-went-wrong-403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vice reported how funds were being misused<\/a> in Harlem and of similar problems in other cities.\u00a0 Everybody knows this is B.S.<\/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%3D18281&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=18281\">&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=18281\"><\/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=18281\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Governor Cuomo&#8217;s office: &#8220;Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced more than $3.1 million to fund SNUG, New York&#8217;s street outreach program, in seven communities across the state. 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