{"id":24626,"date":"2021-12-10T19:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T00:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=24626"},"modified":"2021-12-10T19:43:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T00:43:48","slug":"democrats-try-to-pull-a-fast-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=24626","title":{"rendered":"Democrats try to pull a fast one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Lawrence Co. Democrats are trying to pull a fast one over on 2A rights supporters with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/2021\/11\/30\/slc-dems-back-castelli-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their Congressional candidate pick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stlawrencedemocrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee<\/a> has endorsed <a href=\"https:\/\/castelliforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matt Castelli for congress<\/a>. Castelli\u2019s stand on gun rights is part of the reason &#8230; Castelli\u2019s position on gun rights was an important factor in deciding to back him, Clark said &#8230; In 2018, the campaign of Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Tedra_Cobb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tedra Cobb<\/a> to unseat <a href=\"https:\/\/stefanik.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stefanik<\/a> was derailed when an undercover video surfaced of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dems-campaign-manager-quits-after-video-shows-candidate-secretly-backing-gun-ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cobb saying she would support banning assault weapons<\/a>, but couldn\u2019t say so before the election because it would hurt her chances &#8230; In a September interview with 7 News, Castelli emphasized his deep familiarity with guns &#8211; as a C.I.A. officer he carried weapons \u201cin places like Afghanistan and Iraq.\u201d \u201cI was extensively trained and carried a Glock 17 and an M4 rifle,\u201d he said. \u201cSo I will protect the rights of our lawful gun owners, our hunters, our sportsmen and women, to keep their families and communities safe,\u201d he said. <strong>But Castelli also said more work needs to be done \u201ckeeping our communities safe from gun violence.<\/strong>\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words he&#8217;s going to fuck us over the first chance he gets.  Don&#8217;t give him the opportunity.<\/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%3D24626&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=24626\">&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=24626\"><\/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=24626\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Lawrence Co. Democrats are trying to pull a fast one over on 2A rights supporters with their Congressional candidate pick: &#8220;The St. Lawrence County Democratic Committee has endorsed Matt Castelli for congress. Castelli\u2019s stand on gun rights is part of the reason &#8230; Castelli\u2019s position on gun rights was an important factor in deciding [&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%3D24626&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=24626\">&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=24626\"><\/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=24626\" 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":[34,40,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2018","category-elections-2022","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626","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=24626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24631,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24626\/revisions\/24631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}