{"id":29237,"date":"2025-03-08T07:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29237"},"modified":"2025-03-08T07:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T12:24:10","slug":"cuomo-started-gun-control-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29237","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo started gun control group"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times has an article on ex-Gov. Cuomo forming a pro-Isreal group<\/a> as a way to reboot his political career. In the article is this nugget:<\/p>\n

“Last year, as a growing schism over Israel tore at the Democratic Party, Andrew M. Cuomo<\/a> threw himself into the fray. He announced he would lead a new advocacy group leveraging his clout as New York\u2019s former governor to beat back growing anti-Israel sentiment on the left. … Almost a year later, though, the Cuomo group\u2019s promises appear to have amounted to little beyond a few private informational receptions and opinion essays. Now, as Mr. Cuomo begins a comeback campaign for mayor of New York City, the group\u2019s work provides one of the clearest windows into how he has sought to use well-timed political projects to re-enter the public sphere after his scandal-tarred resignation as governor. Others included a national gun safety group and a new political action committee to support favored candidates.<\/strong> … Rich Azzopardi<\/a>, Mr. Cuomo\u2019s spokesman, defended the efforts, which he called a reflection of Mr. Cuomo\u2019s desire to continue work he had done as governor to tighten New York\u2019s gun laws<\/strong> and fight antisemitism …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His gun control group was as inactive as his pro-Isreal group. I could not recall hearing about it so I did a search and found this from ’22<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who resigned more than a year ago after allegations of sexual harassment, said in a video Wednesday that he will start a political action committee \u201cto elect the right people to politics,\u201d form a gun-control group<\/strong> and launch his own weekly podcast … Cuomo also teased something called the \u201cGun Safe America\u201d project, which he said he will unveiled soon<\/strong> …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As far as I can tell \u201cGun Safe America\u201d never got off the ground.<\/p>\n

All this appears to be primarily astrotruf meant to keep his name circulating in internal Democrat party politics.<\/p>\n