{"id":20784,"date":"2019-12-12T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T14:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20784"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:22:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:22:02","slug":"newsbits-183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20784","title":{"rendered":"Newsbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday&#8217;s Newsbits:<\/p>\n<p>Elections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/ny-senate-democrats-albany-andrea-stewart-cousins-republicans-20191211-7nxvhzvzajfd5laghytbpatzd4-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Dems expect to gain seats in state Senate as Republicans anticipate more retirements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/election\/state-sen-joe-robach-not-seeking-re-election-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Sen. Joe Robach not seeking re-election in 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2019\/12\/10\/rit-professor-sherita-traywick-56th-ny-state-senate-seat-joseph-robach\/4384860002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RIT professor looks to unseat Joe Robach in NY&#8217;s 56th Senate District<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/stec-announces-candidacy-for-state-senate\/article_16d3b1e3-7a26-5c03-bb89-77ad0fa10bc4.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stec announces candidacy for state Senate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/story\/41439640\/new-candidates-join-race-for-open-state-assembly-seat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New candidates join race for open state Assembly seat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Legislation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/ghost-guns-terrorism-legislation-max-rose-1476828\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Congressman hails inclusion of &#8216;ghost guns&#8217; bill in massive spending package<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NRA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/1210wpht.radio.com\/media\/audio-channel\/oliver-north-reflects-on-nra-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oliver North Reflects on NRA Controversy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/G.O.P. Senators Flood the Exits in N.Y., and Party Woes Deepen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G.O.P. 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Joe Robach not seeking re-election in 2020 RIT professor looks to unseat Joe Robach in NY&#8217;s 56th Senate District Stec announces candidacy for state Senate New candidates join race for open state Assembly seat Legislation: [&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%3D20784&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=20784\">&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=20784\"><\/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=20784\" 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":[37,3,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2020","category-federal-legislation","category-nra","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784","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=20784"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20802,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784\/revisions\/20802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}