{"id":9511,"date":"2013-12-30T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=9511"},"modified":"2013-12-30T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T13:36:06","slug":"steve-not-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=9511","title":{"rendered":"Steve not running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2013\/12\/30\/cuomo-pushing-to-block-de-blasio-speaker-pick-mark-viverito\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve McLaughlin isn&#8217;t going to be running for Governor next year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Upstate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assembly.state.ny.us\/mem\/Steven-F-McLaughlin\" target=\"_blank\">Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin<\/a>, who for months considered seeking the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nygop.org\" target=\"_blank\">GOP<\/a> nomination for governor, has concluded, \u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that I\u2019m going to run.\u201d\u00a0 McLaughlin, one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Cuomo\u2019s<\/a> sharpest critics and a leader of the upstate opposition to his anti-gun SAFE Act, cited fund-raising difficulties as the main reason for his decision &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A shame, but this was never really in the cards.\u00a0 He&#8217;s going to have to settle with having the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveMcNY\" target=\"_blank\">best Twitter feed <\/a>in the state legislature.<\/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%3D9511&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; 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Upstate Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, who for months considered seeking the GOP nomination for governor, has concluded, \u201cIt\u2019s unlikely that I\u2019m going to run.\u201d\u00a0 McLaughlin, one of Cuomo\u2019s sharpest critics and a leader of the upstate opposition to his anti-gun SAFE Act, cited fund-raising [&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%3D9511&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=9511\">&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=9511\"><\/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=9511\" 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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511","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=9511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9515,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9511\/revisions\/9515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}