Its reported that Republican challenger Rob Astorino, badly trailing Gov. Cuomo in campaign cash, expects “several millions of dollars’’ in windfall Super PAC funding from across the nation as a result of last week’s federal court ruling in Manhattan, GOP insiders say.
Some of the funding is expected to come from wealthy oil- and gas-industry executives furious at Cuomo’s nearly 3¹/₂-year delay in making a decision on “fracking’’ for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region of the Southern Tier near Binghamton.
Other pro-Astorino contributions are expected from Second Amendment supporters and firearms-industry executives, who strongly opposed to the “Safe Act,’’ that was passed as an response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings as well as the many homicides in New York from illegal handguns.
It is amazing that Mr. Astorino is so desperate to win he will take blood money from firearms industry executives. His acceptance will be a slap in the face to the many families of victims in New York that was killed by illegal guns.
“There could be a lot of money coming into New York as a result of the ruling. There are a lot of folks across the country who have come to see Cuomo as a symbol of the Democrats’ positions on guns,’’ said a prominent Republican activist.
As Independent Democrats, we wait to see how many Police Unions stand with Astorino because his stance against the "Safe Act" while being finance by the same gun manufacture executives that have allowed the influx of illegal weapons in our communities.
Since many states and communities supported stricter gun laws and penalties. The number of law enforcement authorities killed by gunfire dipped to 33 in 2013, the lowest total since the Wild West days of 1887, according to a report from a law enforcement advocacy group.
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