Crime Hits Home

The Republican candidate for governor of New York got an extremely disturbing call yesterday. While he and his wife were on their way home from attending a Columbus Day parade, they got a frantic call from one of their daughters. There had been a shooting right outside their home.

According to police, the shooting appears to be gang related. Two teenagers were walking past the candidate’s home when an SUV pulled up and someone opened fire from inside the vehicle. The teenagers jumped into the candidate’s yard, dodging the bullets, one of which landed just yards away from where his daughters had been studying.

When the shooting began, the girls ran upstairs and locked themselves in a bathroom. One daughter called 911, while the other called her parents. The GOP candidate later told reporters that at one point the injured teenagers were hiding under his front porch and in the bushes in his yard.

There is tremendous irony that this happened at the candidate’s home because he has made combatting crime a major theme of his campaign. Sadly, this is what many New Yorkers are experiencing every day. 

During an interview over the weekend, former Democrat Governor David Paterson echoed the fears of many New Yorkers. He said:

“For the first time in my life, even in the late ’80s and ’90s when the crime rate was killing 2,000 people a year, I never felt as unsafe as I do now. . . You’re hearing about an assault on the subway almost every other day.”

And here’s the latest trend in our slide toward barbarism: People who are severely injured or killed in accidents are being robbed on the streets before first responders can arrive! 

For most of the year, the liberal incumbent governor has enjoyed a wide lead in the race. But the most recent poll suggests it’s now neck-and-neck. Frustrated New Yorkers who want to take their streets back and keep criminals behind bars have a clear choice this November.