{"id":9999,"date":"2014-03-26T09:13:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=9999"},"modified":"2014-03-26T09:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T13:13:05","slug":"still-more-democrat-problems-for-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=9999","title":{"rendered":"Still more Democrat problems for Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It needs to be said again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nystateofpolitics.com\/2014\/03\/wfp-leans-away-from-cuomo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Cuomo has problems with Democrats<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;More than 100 state committee members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingfamiliesparty.org\" target=\"_blank\">Working Families Party<\/a> participated in a hastily organized conference call last night to discuss the possibility of not endorsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s<\/a> re-election bid this fall &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t they realize Cuomo is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislativegazette.com\/Articles-Top-Stories-c-2014-03-25-87324.113122-One-year-after-its-adoption-poll-shows-New-Yorkers-support-SAFE-Act-twotoone.html\" target=\"_blank\">a national leader on gun control<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Cuomo has deliberately staked out territory as a centrist &#8230; He has offset this approach with victories on &#8230; gun control, but that doesn\u2019t appear to be enough to appease the liberal wing of his party &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This shows how unpopular gun control has become of an issue for leftists, something Cuomo had to have done research on for his presidential aspirations but for whatever reason chose to ignore\u00a0prior to pushing SAFE. \u00a0They may support it in principle, but the issue doesn&#8217;t have a constituency which will back up their position with money\/votes at election time.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, what has SAFE gotten for the Governor? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwnytv.com\/news\/local\/New-Yorkers-Favor-SAFE-Act-2-1-Poll-Says-251929471.html\" target=\"_blank\">Despite biased polling<\/a>, from the left he&#8217;s gotten nothing. \u00a0From the right, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democratandchronicle.com\/story\/news\/2014\/03\/07\/rob-astorino-governor-east-rochester\/6169167\/\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s a negative<\/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%3D9999&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=9999\">&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=9999\"><\/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=9999\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It needs to be said again, Governor Cuomo has problems with Democrats: &#8220;More than 100 state committee members of the Working Families Party participated in a hastily organized conference call last night to discuss the possibility of not endorsing Gov. 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