{"id":7665,"date":"2013-03-07T11:12:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2013-03-07T11:12:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T16:12:52","slug":"chipping-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=7665","title":{"rendered":"Chipping away"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun control continues to work against the Governor<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s<\/a> job approval rating remains high at 56% among voters statewide, but his support has eroded upstate after passage of sweeping new gun laws, according to a Wall Street Journal\/NBC NY\/Marist Poll<\/a>\u00a0… “What we’re seeing is largely steady in terms of the overall picture of how New Yorkers are assessing him,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion<\/a>. \u00a0But there was “a major shift below the radar” as a result of issues including gun control … Mr. Miringoff said …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, that<\/span>\u00a0wasn’t supposed to happen. \u00a0What other good news<\/a>\u00a0is coming his way today?<\/p>\n

“Today in news from a future that will likely never happen, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie<\/a> leads Gov. Andrew Cuomo in a hypothetical 2016 presidential matchup in the Garden State, a Quinnipiac University poll found<\/a>. \u00a0 Christie, who walked back yesterday the claim that he agrees with Cuomo on \u201c98 percent\u201d of the issues, would top Cuomo in New Jersey in a potential 2016 presidential race, 54 to 36 percent …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like father, like son. \u00a0His old man made the same mistake jumping on the gun control bandwagon in the 80s referring to gunnies as “NRA hunters who drink beer, don’t vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend.”<\/em> Former NRA rep. Richard Feldman talks about his dealings with the elder Cuomo in his book “Ricochet: Confessions of a Gun Lobbyist<\/a>.”<\/em><\/p>\n