{"id":268,"date":"2009-09-22T12:51:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=268"},"modified":"2009-09-22T12:51:45","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:51:45","slug":"news-of-the-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"News of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York is now <a href=\"http:\/\/polhudson.lohudblogs.com\/2009\/09\/22\/nys-top-court-sides-with-paterson-on-lg\/\" target=\"_blank\">officially<\/a> a banana republic.<\/p>\n<p>People <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/blogs\/dailypolitics\/2009\/09\/siena-poll-not-encouraging-for.html\" target=\"_blank\">do not want Rudy<\/a> to run for Governor or against <a href=\"http:\/\/gillibrand.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Kirsten Gillibrand<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Only 41 percent of Republicans want Giuliani to run for governor, while 35 percent would like to see him challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand &#8230;&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Suffolk Co. legislator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislatorcooper.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Cooper<\/a> still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swingstateproject.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=5617\" target=\"_blank\">considering a primary<\/a> against Gillibrand, though.<\/p>\n<p>Our legislature is clueless. \u00a0Finger Lakes Times headline: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fltimes.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/21\/news\/doc4ab5a5920cc4b607946342.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Aw, shoot: Wrong law passed<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofbristol.org\/govt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bristol Supervisor Wayne Houseman<\/a> told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.ontario.ny.us\/supervisors\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Supervisors<\/a> Thursday night that state lawmakers approved the law, but their version inadvertently made it permissible to use rifles to hunt deer and bear throughout the county, not just south of Routes 5&amp;20 as local legislators had intended &#8230;&#8221; <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Plaxico Burress <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/nfl\/news\/story?id=4493887\" target=\"_blank\">gets two years<\/a> for violating the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sullivan_Act\" target=\"_blank\">Sullivan Act<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2008\/12\/01\/2008-12-01_mayor_bloomberg_fuming_over_plaxico_shoo-3.html\" target=\"_blank\">pissing off Mayor Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/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%3D268&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=268\">&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=268\"><\/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=268\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York is now officially a banana republic. People do not want Rudy to run for Governor or against Kirsten Gillibrand: &#8220;&#8230; Only 41 percent of Republicans want Giuliani to run for governor, while 35 percent would like to see him challenge Sen. 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