{"id":3895,"date":"2013-01-02T09:17:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wrfalp.wordpress.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:17:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T14:17:52","slug":"morning-news-albany-to-focus-on-gun-control-election-reform-in-early-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/morning-news-albany-to-focus-on-gun-control-election-reform-in-early-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"MORNING NEWS: Albany to Focus on Gun Control, Election Reform in Early 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Silver-expects-early-gun-control-action-4150323.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ww1.hdnux.com\/photos\/14\/72\/50\/3385872\/3\/628x471.jpg?resize=227%2C168\" width=\"227\" height=\"168\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NY Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ALBANY \u2014 The leader of the <strong>state Assembly<\/strong> expects early pushes for <strong>gun control<\/strong> and election overhaul when lawmakers convene at the Capitol this month. Speaker <strong>Sheldon Silver<\/strong> introduced legislation at the end of December that would allow New Yorkers to vote up to two weeks before Election Day and force greater disclosure of the money behind political advertising.<\/p>\n<p>He also said tightening the state&#8217;s gun laws \u2014 perhaps in a special session as soon as this week \u2014 would help highlight the issue, and make New York a &#8220;template&#8221; for other states after fatal shootings in Newtown, Conn., and suburban\u00a0Rochester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/local\/article\/Silver-expects-early-gun-control-action-4150323.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>READ MORE AT TIMESUNION.COM<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY \u2014 The leader of the state Assembly expects early pushes for gun control and election overhaul when lawmakers convene at the Capitol this month. Speaker Sheldon Silver introduced legislation at the end of December that would allow New Yorkers to vote up to two weeks before Election Day and force greater disclosure of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[773,990,2028,2091],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-10P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}