NRA Claims 'Deep Financial Trouble' May Soon Put It Out of Business

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NRA Claims 'Deep Financial Trouble' May Soon Put It Out of Business

The NRA blames NY Governor Cuomo for its 

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By EMILY PRICE

August 3, 2018

The National Rifle Association says that it’s in “deep financial trouble” — so deep in fact that it may be “unable to exist.”

The group says it is under such financial distress because New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has convinced a number of financial service providers, banks, and insurance providers against doing business with the gun-advocacy group. As a result, the NRA claims that it will be forced to end its magazine publishing and television services, and will be forced to curtail rallies and potentially shutter some of its offices.

In April, Gov. Cuomo encouraged New York-based businesses to cut ties with the NRA. “New York may have the strongest gun laws in the country, but we must push further to ensure that gun safety is a top priority for every individual, company, and organization that does business across the state,” he said in a statement. “I am directing the Department of Financial Services to urge insurers and bankers statewide to determine whether any relationship they may have with the NRA or similar organizations sends the wrong message to their clients and their communities who often look to them for guidance and support. This is not just a matter of reputation, it is a matter of public safety, and working together, we can put an end to gun violence in New York once and for all.”

In response, the NRA sued, claiming that the governor was attempting to deny the group the ability to speak freely about gun-related issues. This week, it filed an additional claim, obtained by Rolling Stone, suggesting that the move has impacted its cash flow to the point that it may soon be forced out of existence.

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RSN: Harvey Wasserman | Donald Trump & Andrew Cuomo Are Brothers in Reactor Disaster

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Harvey Wasserman | Donald Trump & Andrew Cuomo Are Brothers in Reactor Disaster 
Harvey Wasserman, Reader Supported News 
Wasserman writes: "Donald Trump and New York governor Andrew Cuomo have joined forces in destroying our economy and environment." 
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Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo (left) and Donald Trump (right). (photo: Getty)

onald Trump and New York governor Andrew Cuomo have joined forces in destroying our economy and environment.

While Trump wages global war on the climate, Cuomo demands a statewide bailout meant to keep failed nuke reactors on line until they melt and/or explode, Fukushima-style.

Trump and Cuomo are both are apostles of radioactive obsolescence.

The global climate treaty Trump wants to break has been signed by every nation on Earth except Syria and Nicaragua (which wants stronger terms).

Trump is globalizing the US legacy of breaking 800 treaties with indigenous peoples.

Like America’s indigenous tribes, the nations of the world will never trust us again.

Trump has shredded our global standing, as Germany’s Angela Merkel (CEO of the world’s #4 economy) has pronounced us an unreliable trading partner and China (#2) moves to partner directly with the European Union.

As Trump sabotages the dollar, watch him blame our economic death spiral on Muslims, commies, immigrants, and people of color.

Trump’s wedge between the US and Germany is a dream come true for Putin’s petro-mafia.

So is his attack on climate science as he hands our techno-future to King CONG (Coal, Oil, Nukes and Gas), the obsolete monster of a failed 20th century past.

Trump’s hatred of Solartopian technologies — solar, wind, tidal, wave, ocean thermal, geothermal, LED, efficiency, electric and hydrogen cars, advanced batteries, etc. — leaves the US out of the biggest job-creating transition in human history.

Through it all, Trump tweets his “love” for nuclear power.

With him on that is the alleged “liberal,” New York governor Andrew Cuomo.

Cuomo wants New York ratepayers to pay $7.6 billion in raised electric rates to feed collapsing upstate nukes that could soon melt and/or explode.

The rate hikes would force New Yorkers as far away as Long Island to pay for uncompetitive loser nukes that supply them zero electricity.

In part because of a deal cut by Cuomo’s father Mario, Long Island still suffers from $7 billion wasted on the defunct Shoreham reactor.

None of the four upstate reactors Cuomo2 wants to bail out can compete with new wind or solar, which create far more jobs.

Tesla’s “Buffalo Billion” solar shingle factory will create 500 permanent jobs in northwestern New York, plus some 1400 spin-offs.

Ten such plants would create some 5,000 direct jobs, double those at Cuomo’s four loser nukes, with thousands more in spin-offs from cheap green power.

While Germany, Switzerland, Costa Rica, Iceland, Denmark, South Korea and others head to 100% post-nuke Solartopian futures, China is investing $360 billion in renewables, and India is following suit.

Trump attacks such investments here while Cuomo’s bailout cripples them in New York.

The final four US nukes under construction (in Georgia and South Carolina) have bankrupted Westinghouse, maybe Toshiba, and may soon be cancelled.

The 99 licensed loser US reactors all teeter at the brink of economic/ecological catastrophe.

But Cuomo’s New York bailout is a model for owners to gouge billions from ratepayers to keep them open.

Cuomo says he’ll shut two reactors at Indian Point, near New York City, but still wants that Trump-style public handout.

No commercial reactor has liability insurance, so the next melt-down/explosion could bankrupt us all, with none of Trump/Cuomo’s industry cronies held responsible.

Cuomo’s bailout is being challenged in court. Trump’s legal challenges are legion.

Together, these brothers in reactor disaster are the ultimate radioactive Luddites.

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Harvey Wasserman’s Solartopia! Our Green-powered Earth is at www.solartopia.org along with Harvey’s History of the United States. The Strip & Flip Disaster of America’s Stolen Elections, written with Bob Fitrakis, is at www.freepress.org.

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Poll highlights frustrations with Albany corruption

By KAREN DEWITT 

With just a few weeks left until the end of the legislative session, a new poll finds New York voters are still craving reform in state government, and they’d rather not see a new law to expand state gambling by legalizing daily fantasy sports.

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A new Siena poll finds only 42 percent of voters are ready to elect Governor Cuomo for a third term in office.

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For the second month in a row, the Siena College poll reports that nearly 100 percent of those surveyed want something done about the corruption in Albany that’s led to both former leaders of the legislature sentenced to prison and the U.S. Attorney’s investigation of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s economic development programs.

“With three weeks to go in the legislative session ethics, fighting corruption is still the No. 1 issue for voters,” said Siena spokesman Steve Greenberg, who noted that 96 percent of New Yorkers continue to say that passing anti-corruption legislation is important. 

The poll holds mixed news for Cuomo. He continues to be moderately popular, with 54 percent of New Yorkers viewing him favorably and 48 percent saying he’s doing a good job in office. Those numbers have remained constant for the past year. And two-thirds of those surveyed believe he is an ethical public official.

But some may be growing tired of the governor in office.

Greenberg said only 42 percent of those surveyed say they are prepared to elect Cuomo to a third term as governor, while 49 percent say they’d prefer someone else. Only slightly more than half of Democrats say they would support the governor in 2018. The rest would like a chance to vote for someone else next time around.

The head of the state’s Republican party, Ed Cox, jumped on Cuomo’s perceived weakness, pointing out that the governor’s job performance numbers have been “under water” for months now, and predicting that the ongoing investigation of the Buffalo Billion and other high-tech economic projects means that “dissatisfaction will grow.”

Cuomo’s people pointed out his continued favorable ratings above 50 percent, despite a month of bad headlines about the ongoing federal probe. 

Cuomo says if there is no ethics reform this year, it won’t be his fault. He says he’s trying to press the legislature to agree to changes, and has even released eight different versions of a bill to end a campaign finance loophole that allows limited liability companies to skirt donation limits. But he’s doing his best to lower expectations, as he did during a recent appearance in New York City.

“I think we will get some ethics reform,” Cuomo said on May 17. “I don’t think we will get all the ethics reform I would like.”

The poll also found that most New Yorkers want the state to permit ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft to operate outside of New York City, but they are not in favor of a proposal to legalize daily fantasy sports gambling, including games offered on popular websites like FanDuel or DraftKings. That bill is likely to advance through legislative committees later this week. 

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