{"id":20867,"date":"2019-12-23T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20867"},"modified":"2019-12-23T12:00:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:00:02","slug":"newsbits-186","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=20867","title":{"rendered":"Newsbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s Newsbits:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FNYforSchmitt%2Fposts%2F2942603765770157&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"798\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Elections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/news\/2019\/12\/20\/it-s-looking-grim-for-state-senate-republicans-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">With a Wave of Retirements, It&#8217;s Looking Grim for State Senate Republicans in 2020<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nystateofpolitics.com\/2019\/12\/rochester-democrat-enters-sd-61-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rochester Democrat Enters SD-61 Race<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thecity.nyc\/2019\/12\/greenpoints-gallagher-challenges-joe-lentol-for-assembly.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greenpoint activist views to unseat 47-year incumbent Lentol<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Legislation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-government-spending-bill-includes-a-major-victory-for-gun-safety-advocates\/2019\/12\/19\/87535540-22a9-11ea-86f3-3b5019d451db_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The government spending bill includes a major victory for gun safety advocates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/12\/19\/788440932\/does-new-york-city-need-gun-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Does New York City Need Gun Control?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-york-toy-guns-buyback-gifts-long-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York children encouraged to swap toy guns for educational gifts in community &#8216;buyback&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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%3D20867&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=20867\">&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=20867\"><\/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=20867\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday&#8217;s Newsbits: Elections: With a Wave of Retirements, It&#8217;s Looking Grim for State Senate Republicans in 2020 Rochester Democrat Enters SD-61 Race Greenpoint activist views to unseat 47-year incumbent Lentol Legislation: The government spending bill includes a major victory for gun safety advocates Politics: Does New York City Need Gun Control? New York children encouraged [&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%3D20867&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=20867\">&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=20867\"><\/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=20867\" 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":[37,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2020","category-federal-legislation","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867","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=20867"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20875,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20867\/revisions\/20875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}