{"id":6680,"date":"2012-09-11T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2012-09-11T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T14:10:42","slug":"mcdonald-v-marchione","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=6680","title":{"rendered":"McDonald v. Marchione"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The race in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latfor.state.ny.us\/maps\/2012s\/fs43.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">new SD-43<\/a> pits incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/standwithroy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy McDonald<\/a> against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchione2012.com\" target=\"_blank\">Saratoga Co. Clerk Kathy Marchione<\/a>. \u00a0McDonald has gotten himself into a lot of trouble over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2011\/06\/17\/republican-senator-roy-mcdonald-new-york-gay-marriage-bill-f-it-right-thing-quote\/\" target=\"_blank\">his gay marriage vote<\/a>, which clearly was not done out of principle, but out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elections.ny.gov:8080\/plsql_browser\/CONTRIBUTORB_NAME?LAST_NAME_IN=bloomberg&amp;NAME_IN=&amp;position_IN=START&amp;date_from=01%2F01%2F2011&amp;date_to=09%2F01%2F2012&amp;AMOUNT_from=1&amp;AMOUNT_to=99999999&amp;ORDERBY_IN=N\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s campaign contribution<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both have pro-gun records and both are trying to make the most out of them.<\/p>\n<p>From the McDonald campaign:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/05\/news\/doc504800f32ef8a992068274.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Roy McDonald endorsed by National Rifle Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/images\/McDonald.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Orange postcard from NRA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the Marchione campaign:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/articles\/2012\/08\/28\/news\/doc503d75bbc250b188103927.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Gun owners group endorses Kathy Marchione for state Senate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kathymarchione\/status\/243775153052471296\" target=\"_blank\">Proud to have received an A rating from NYSRPA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/images\/Marchione.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Full-sized color postcard from the campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marchione&#8217;s postcard is much nicer and 4x bigger than the one NRA did. \u00a0I believe it will motivate more people to support her than McDonald&#8217;s endorsement will get for him.<\/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%3D6680&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=6680\">&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=6680\"><\/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=6680\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The race in the new SD-43 pits incumbent Roy McDonald against Saratoga Co. Clerk Kathy Marchione. \u00a0McDonald has gotten himself into a lot of trouble over his gay marriage vote, which clearly was not done out of principle, but out of Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s campaign contribution. 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