{"id":5467,"date":"2012-01-20T13:33:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5467"},"modified":"2012-01-20T13:33:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T18:33:41","slug":"hinchey-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=5467","title":{"rendered":"Hinchey retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hinchey.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Rep. Maurice Hinchey<\/a> is retiring after spending entirely too long feeding off the public trough. \u00a0It was always a coin flip to see which way he vote and he leaves with an overall <strong>C<\/strong>-rating.<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressconnects.com\/article\/20120119\/NEWS01\/201190398\/Politicians-mull-running-Hinchey-s-seat\" target=\"_blank\">potential replacements<\/a> and their ratings:<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>-rated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senator\/tom-libous\" target=\"_blank\">Senator Thomas Libous<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Donna-A-Lupardo\" target=\"_blank\">Assemblywoman\u00a0Donna Lupardo<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong>-rated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Kevin-A-Cahill\" target=\"_blank\">Assemblyman Kevin Cahill<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Barbara-Lifton\" target=\"_blank\">Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofbinghamton.com\/mayor.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Binghamton Mayor Matthew Ryan<\/a> who is a member of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayorsagainstillegalguns.org\" target=\"_blank\">MAIG<\/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%3D5467&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=5467\">&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=5467\"><\/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=5467\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Maurice Hinchey is retiring after spending entirely too long feeding off the public trough. \u00a0It was always a coin flip to see which way he vote and he leaves with an overall C-rating. 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