{"id":26442,"date":"2022-10-29T14:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=26442"},"modified":"2022-10-29T14:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T18:23:40","slug":"long-island-senate-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=26442","title":{"rendered":"Long Island Senate races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/28\/heres-how-new-york-voters-could-help-gop-regain-control-of-the-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Republican efforts to end the Democratic supermajority in Albany are focused squarely on Long Island, where state Sens. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senators\/john-e-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Brooks (D-Farmingdale)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annafornysenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck)<\/a> face tough challenges from former <a href=\"https:\/\/steverhoads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nassau County Legislator Steven Rhoads<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.martinsforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">former state Sen. Jack Martins<\/a>, respectively &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brooks is antigun while Rhodes&#8217; position is unknown. Support Rhodes to get rid of Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan is <a href=\"https:\/\/theislandnow.com\/news-98\/anna-kaplan-touts-gun-control-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the worst antis<\/a> in Albany. Martins&#8217; record is equally bad. Kaplan is more detestable as she is so in-your-face about the gun control agenda.\u00a0 Supporting Martins won&#8217;t change the vote count on the bills, but I don&#8217;t think he would send out pressers gloating about it.<\/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%3D26442&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=26442\">&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=26442\"><\/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=26442\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post writes: &#8220;&#8230; Republican efforts to end the Democratic supermajority in Albany are focused squarely on Long Island, where state Sens. John Brooks (D-Farmingdale) and Anna Kaplan (D-Great Neck) face tough challenges from former Nassau County Legislator Steven Rhoads and former state Sen. Jack Martins, respectively &#8230;&#8221; Brooks is antigun while Rhodes&#8217; position is [&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%3D26442&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=26442\">&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=26442\"><\/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=26442\" 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":[40,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2022","category-politics","category-state-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26442","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=26442"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26446,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26442\/revisions\/26446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}