{"id":28,"date":"2009-07-24T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2009-07-24T11:48:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:48:14","slug":"news-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"News of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday reports, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/newsday.com\/long-island\/politics\/mccarthy-back-surgery-deterred-me-from-senate-race-1.1322795\" target=\"_blank\">McCarthy: Back surgery deterred me from Senate race .<\/a>&#8221; \u00a0I call BS on that.<\/p>\n<p>Manhattan District Attorney\u00a0candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abornforda.com\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Aborn<\/a> declares &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/richard-aborn\/a-narrow-victory_b_243764.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Narrow Victory<\/a>&#8221; on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/07\/22\/senate-vote-controversial-concealed-weapons-measure\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thune reciprocity amendment failing 58-39<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Senate<\/a>. \u00a0Incumbent Queens District Attorney Richard Brown called it <em>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.queensda.org\/newpressreleases\/2009\/july\/thune%20gun%20amendment_07_22_2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a major victory for New Yorkers.<\/a>&#8221; <\/em>I don&#8217;t consider this a failure for gunnies. \u00a0The issue has been gathering steam for years and this is another positive step forward.<\/p>\n<p>PolitickerNY observers, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickerny.com\/4604\/schumer-returns-old-form-help-defeat-gun-amendment\" target=\"_blank\">The Anti-Gun Schumer Returns.<\/a>&#8221; \u00a0When did he ever leave?<\/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%3D28&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=28\">&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=28\"><\/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=28\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsday reports, &#8220;McCarthy: Back surgery deterred me from Senate race .&#8221; \u00a0I call BS on that. Manhattan District Attorney\u00a0candidate Richard Aborn declares &#8220;A Narrow Victory&#8221; on the Thune reciprocity amendment failing 58-39 in the Senate. \u00a0Incumbent Queens District Attorney Richard Brown called it &#8220;a major victory for New Yorkers.&#8221; I don&#8217;t consider this a failure [&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%3D28&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=28\">&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=28\"><\/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=28\" 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":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2009","category-federal-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","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=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}