Miscellaneous

By Bill Altreuter

In my basement there is a collection of lawn signs, a sort of museum of the quixotic. We have never had a winning candidate advertise on our lawn, a pretty remarkable streak when you think about it. Allen's sign joins the gallery today.

I wonder if yesterday really was a manifestation of anti-Albany sentiment. The perfectly odious Bill Stachowski, a 28 year veteran of the state senate was the only local incumbent legislator to lose. That's not really pitchforks and torches, you know what I'm saying?

Of course there's Carl Paladino. Carl ran a frothing at the mouth campaign against a guy with an established record of unpopularity for the chance to get flattened by Andy Cuomo. I haven't seen the numbers yet but my hunch is that the Lazio voters just stayed home. He is a tea party success story, no doubt about that, but I'm not so sure that his support is as broad as it is deep. I'm wondering if he can keep the Republican line second on the ballot -- and I'm thinking that this might be the end of the Conservative Party line. Carl has his own third party line, and the Conservative Party didn't back him.

Full post as published by Outside Counsel on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).