Fresh off landing an endorsement from an erstwhile liberal holdout and foe, Rep. Jerry Nadler, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is scheduled to appear tomorrow with another former House colleague and onetime political opponent, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy.
Gillibrand is to join the Long Island congresswoman, Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, the Brady Campaign and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence at John Jay College for a so-called "major announcement" (according to a press release) of a "new federal measure to combat gun violence."
The former upstate congresswoman once had a conservative position on gun control. She rather infamously confessed to keeping two rifles under her bed and enjoyed a 100 percent rating from the NRA when she was in the House, although she has lost the organization's support since she became a senator and started tacking left.
It was Gillibrand's record on this issue that spurred McCarthy, a staunch supporter of gun-control, to threaten a primary challenge in 2010.
Mayor Bloomberg, who has made getting illegal guns off the street a personal crusade, also expressed dismay over Gillibrand's selection last January by Gov. David Paterson to fill Hillary Clinton's US Senate seat.
But Gillibrand has worked assiduously since then to prove she has learned the error of her ways, starting with a visit early in her Senate tenure to a Brooklyn school after a 17-year-old student there was shot and killed by a stray bullet. ...
Article here. Looks like Gillibrand's just another slimy politician, whose only guiding principle is personal power. We desperately need term limits for these clowns, but realistically are highly unlikely to get such a constitutional amendment via the current political process.
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