{"id":7844,"date":"2013-03-25T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=7844"},"modified":"2013-03-25T08:12:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T12:12:25","slug":"shifting-the-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=7844","title":{"rendered":"Shifting the blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Cuomo<\/a> was so very proud of SAFE that he wanted to claim credit for it. \u00a0Now that it&#8217;s unpopularity is becoming undeniable, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/gov_faking_care_of_business_execs_9uIcEq5lJPk96ayylaRAGL\" target=\"_blank\">he wants to share the responsbility<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; A Cuomo administration source is flatly denying the governor\u2019s claim that his new anti-gun SAFE Act was carefully drafted, saying the governor himself wasn\u2019t even aware of some provisions when it was hastily enacted into law &#8230; \u201cMuch of what\u2019s in the law was drafted by people connected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayor\" target=\"_blank\">Mayor Bloomberg<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradycampaign.org\" target=\"_blank\">Brady Center<\/a>, not by the governor\u2019s staff,\u201d the source said. \u201cThat\u2019s why there are so many problems with it.\u2019\u2019 &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Forget it Andy, you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">own<\/span> this. \u00a0And being a clueless buffoon is not a trait people look for in presidential candidates anymore than a raving antigun zealot.<\/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%3D7844&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=7844\">&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=7844\"><\/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=7844\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the beginning, Gov. Cuomo was so very proud of SAFE that he wanted to claim credit for it. \u00a0Now that it&#8217;s unpopularity is becoming undeniable, he wants to share the responsbility: &#8220;&#8230; A Cuomo administration source is flatly denying the governor\u2019s claim that his new anti-gun SAFE Act was carefully drafted, saying the governor [&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%3D7844&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=7844\">&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=7844\"><\/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=7844\" 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":[32,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2016","category-politics","category-state-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844","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=7844"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7844\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}