Sentences with phrase «favor of the gun control law»
Grisanti, who has voted in favor of the gun control law the SAFE Act and the legalization of same - sex marriage, faces Republican Kevin Stocker of Kenmore on Tuesday.
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Grisanti in 2011 was one of four Republicans in the state Senate to back the legalization of same - sex marriage and, less than two years later, provided a vote in favor of the gun control law known as the SAFE Act, a measure that has stirred anger among the conservative base.
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During this and future campaigns, Hagelin favored abortion rights without public financing, campaign finance law reform, improved gun control, a flat tax, the eradication of PACs, a ban on soft money contributions, and school vouchers.
He's in favor of abortion rights adn gun control: maybe they will throw him Health and Human Services, but, since there is no chance of the GOP winning in 2012, he had better concentrate on his farm in Peekskill and his law practice.
Upstate Republican advocates remain skeptical of Flanagan in part for his hailing from Suffolk County, but also his vote in favor of the SAFE Act gun control law.
But it also came after Flanagan pledged to enact some changes to the gun control law, which is deeply opposed by gun - rights advocates, who are skeptical of the Long Islander's leadership in the chamber given his vote in favor of the SAFE Act in 2013.
At the same time, they point to Flanagan's vote in favor of the 2013 gun control law known as the SAFE Act (Flanagan and the Senate passed a package of SAFE Act changes at the end of session, but those measures were unlikely to be taken up in the Democratic - led Assembly).
NEW YORK (AP)-- Support for tougher gun control laws is soaring in the United States, according to a new poll that found a majority of gun owners and half of Republicans favor new laws to address gun violence in the weeks after a Florida school shooting left 17 dead and sparked nationwide protests...
Emma Gonzalez, whose speech in favor of gun control went viral four days after 17 people were killed by a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, spoke out against her state's Republican senator, Marco Rubio, who has doubted that proposed gun laws would have prevented the massacre.
Trump did allude to gun laws in a different tweet Saturday, accusing congressional Democrats of not favoring new gun laws: «Just like they don't want to solve the DACA problem, why didn't the Democrats pass gun control legislation when they had both the House & Senate during the Obama Administration.