{"id":29069,"date":"2025-01-11T07:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T12:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29069"},"modified":"2025-01-11T07:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T12:56:38","slug":"jenkins-appoints-gun-violence-prevention-taskforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29069","title":{"rendered":"Jenkins appoints Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Jenkins has taken over as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wamc.org\/news\/2025-01-06\/ken-jenkins-appointed-westchester-county-executive-until-special-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interim Westchester County Executive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of his first actions was to fully appoint members to the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westchestergov.com\/home\/all-press-releases\/10341-county-executive-ken-jenkins-and-legislator-shanae-williams-announce-full-appointment-of-gun-violence-prevention-task-force\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westchester County Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and say this taskforce will propose throwing money into warm and fuzzy sounding social programs with little oversight as well as endorsing whatever new gun control schemes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyagv.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">antis<\/a> come up with.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/01\/06\/westchester-county-ny-ken-jenkins-appointed-executive-until-february-11-vote\/77484769007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special election is set for February 11<\/a> to fill the remainder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/11\/05\/ny-election-results-who-won-us-house-16-district-george-latimer-miriam-levitt-flisser\/76044903007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Latimer&#8217;s term<\/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%3D29069&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=29069\">&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=29069\"><\/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=29069\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Jenkins has taken over as interim Westchester County Executive. One of his first actions was to fully appoint members to the so-called Westchester County Gun Violence Prevention Taskforce. I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and say this taskforce will propose throwing money into warm and fuzzy sounding social programs with little oversight [&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%3D29069&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=29069\">&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=29069\"><\/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=29069\" 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":[43,45,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections2024","category-elections-2025","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069","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=29069"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29075,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29069\/revisions\/29075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}