NRA President Defends Web Video Bloomberg Calls 'Dumb PR'
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a new National Rifle Association web video that labels President Barack Obama an "elitist hypocrite'' is "dumb PR.''
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a new National Rifle Association web video that labels President Barack Obama an "elitist hypocrite'' is "dumb PR.''
The Pfails hadn't planned for a road trip to the nation's capital next week, but Sen. Charles Schumer invited them to the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.
The package includes a call on Congress to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazine and it would close loopholes in the gun sale background check system.
New Jersey St. Sen. Dick Codey has filled in as governor on multiple occasions, and is apparently now considering a run for the job.
At 23 percent in the latest Quinnipiac University poll, Lhota would handily beat all other Republican challengers for the nomination. But the good news for him could stop there, according to Quinnipiac's Maurice Carroll.
The final House vote was 241-180 -- 192 Democrats were joined by 38 Republicans in approving the measure.
The Assembly voted in favor of the bill 104-43. The bill was passed by the Senate 43-18 late Monday. It was immediately was brought to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who signed it into law.
The White House said President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will be joined by children who wrote the president letters after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
The New York State Legislature was poised Tuesday to pass the first gun control measure following the Newtown school massacre. This as the vice president was set to unveil federal proposals to end gun violence later in the day.
A New Jersey appeals court heard arguments on Monday on a case asking whether the state Department of Environmental Protection should look out for the interests of business as well as the environment.
New York State Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D-Brooklyn) said Monday that he will be staying in the Assembly, even though he lost his committee chairmanship and seniority after a finding that he violated sexual harassment policies.
Former Metropolitan Transportation Authority President Joseph Lhota said Monday that he plans to kick off his mayoral campaign later in the week.
On the one-month anniversary of the Newtown school massacre, an angry sheriff in New Jersey and a heartbroken father of a Virginia Tech shooting victim were calling for a ban on high-capacity magazines and military style assault weapons.
Bush, 88, the nation's oldest living former president, was admitted to Methodist Hospital Nov. 23 including a week in intensive care last month.
President Barack Obama demanded Monday that Congress raise the federal debt limit quickly and said he will soon ask Congress to enact new gun legislation in the wake of the shootings a month ago in Newtown, Conn.
