{"id":21057,"date":"2020-01-18T08:06:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T13:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21057"},"modified":"2020-01-18T08:06:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T13:06:53","slug":"kaminsky-endorses-bloomberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=21057","title":{"rendered":"Kaminsky endorses Bloomberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsday.com\/long-island\/politics\/kaminsky-bloomberg-endorsement-president-democrat-1.40717905\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsday reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senators\/todd-kaminsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Sen. Todd Kaminsky<\/a>, a Long Beach Democrat, has endorsed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikebloomberg.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Bloomberg<\/a> for president, citing the former New York City mayor\u2019s work to combat climate change, <strong>pass gun control<\/strong> and help rebuild lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9\/11 &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blah, blah, blah &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Asked about Bloomberg\u2019s longtime financial support of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nysenategop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">State Senate Republicans<\/a> to help keep them in power during his mayoralty, Kaminsky said: \u201cI don\u2019t really know the facts of what happened in the past,\u201d but said there was corruption in both parties and said that Bloomberg probably felt he was doing what\u2019s best for his constituents &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nobody believes this.<\/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%3D21057&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=21057\">&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=21057\"><\/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=21057\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday reports: &#8220;State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Long Beach Democrat, has endorsed Mike Bloomberg for president, citing the former New York City mayor\u2019s work to combat climate change, pass gun control and help rebuild lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9\/11 &#8230;&#8221; Blah, blah, blah &#8230; &#8220;&#8230; Asked about Bloomberg\u2019s longtime financial support of State [&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%3D21057&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=21057\">&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=21057\"><\/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=21057\" 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":[37,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2020","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057","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=21057"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21060,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21057\/revisions\/21060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}