Home Former mayors of Albany, Binghamton and Utica rip Poughkeepsie mayor over gun-control group
Joseph Spector
The former mayors of Albany, Utica and Binghamton knocked Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik in an op-ed today after he criticized Mayors Against Illegal Guns and dropped out of the group.
tkazyikFormer Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings, former Utica Mayor David Roefaro and Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan wrote it.
“We are former mayors of Albany, Utica and Binghamton and served as members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns when Mayor John Tkazyik was a member. We were surprised and disappointed to see in a recent OpEd Poughkeepsie Mayor John Tkazyik blatantly mischaracterize the important goals of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the national bipartisan coalition working to make America’s communities safer by cracking down on illegal guns and the criminals who purchase them,” the op-ed in the Poughkeepsie Journal said.
Tkazyik, (left) a Republican, wrote his own op-ed Feb. 5 knocking the group and saying its principles go against his pro-Second Amendment stance. The group was started by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to curb gun violence in cities, but Tkazyik, who is considering a run for state Senate, said the group’s message has become more than that.
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