NY Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin, elected in the 2010 GOP wave with strong tea party support, does not like Gov. Cuomo's new gun safety law one bit.
McLaughlin, who represents most of Rensselaer and part of Washington and Columbia counties (east of Albany), knows a rabble-rousing issue when he sees one. He spoke at the gun rights rally outside the Capitol last month, at the state Conservative Party confab two weeks ago, and has been all over local talk radio lately.
This morning, he joined other GOP Assemblymembers at a press conference to decry Cuomo's use of a message of necessity (an executive power that requires an essentially immediate vote on a bill) for the NY SAFE Act.
McLaughlin called that dictatorial, and when questioned about "dictatorial," went Godwin-plus:
A few hours later, he apologized.
He must have thought he was at a tea party/gun nut/GOP base gathering with no cameras or reporters allowed.
More, below.
