WW: Who’s next for NY-25
Walsh Watch weighs in with an entertaining (and exhaustive) list of potential Democratic and Republican (assuming Walsh cashes in his 20 years and retires to a K Street lobbying firm) candidates for the NY-25 seat in ‘08. An excerpt:
- Joanie Mahoney - Why can’t all candidates have rhyming names? I don’t think she’s tough enough for a real race, she looked positively D-list numerous times against Driscoll. Whether or not that effects her decision to run is a different story.
- Bill Meyer - Between losing a primary to Jeff Brown and losing a general to Al Stirpe Meyer has pissed away about $100K of his own money. Would that discourage him, or does he enjoy throwing money away? Either way he is the single worst campaigner alive.
- Chucky Iavarone - Haha, just kidding.
Heh. Funny. But knowledgable.
That’s the advantage of being in the thick of a district, as the Watcher is in Syracuse. You know intimately the players and can speculate on their chances. With Rochester split between 4 districts, and at the edge of each of them (except for Louise Slaughter’s NY-28), the key players are a little beyond the event horizon for those of us based in Rochester.
For example, conventional wisdom is that any Dem challenger in the 29th has to come from the Southern Tier, as opposed to Monroe County. I won’t argue, but other than knowing that there are 3 Dem mayors of the main cities in the bottom of the 29th (Corning, Elmira, and … er, Hornell?), I’m a little fuzzy on who could step up to the mic and have a go at Kuhl, should Massa opt out for a second time around.
I think the candidate for the 29th needs to come from the Tier as well. The real hope for the future lies in building up the County parties down there. Sixty-two county strategy, anyone?
I’m all for it. How about a 20 town strategy for Monroe County?