So a NY democrat wants to do away with the right to keep and bear arms with a procedure which doesn’t require votes! If the left can’t rig the vote, it will do away with it. Charming.
Carolyn McCarthy, progressive?
She ran on the Democratic line in 1996 but only after the New York GOP rebuffed her when she announced her intentions to challenge then-Rep. Dan Frisa in a primary. The Democrats wisely recruited her and she flipped the seat in the 1996 election. That didn't stop her from having conversations with the GOP about returning to her roots in 1998. Furthermore, though she was caucusing with the Democrats in Congress, she didn't officially change her voter registration from "R" to "D" until 2002. Six years after she was elected.
Other than being a rabid gun grabber, she's not much of a wingnut. She voted for the Iraq war authorization.