Tim Green to run for State Senate?
This is big news if it happens:
He has been a football star, a lawyer, and a television commentator, and is now a best-selling children’s author.
But Tim Green, who played seven seasons for the Atlanta Falcons after a standout career at Syracuse, apparently wants something more. At the urging of Gov. Eliot Spitzer, he is laying the groundwork to mount a Democratic challenge to the longtime Republican state senator in his district, in the Syracuse area, several Democratic officials said.
Mr. Green’s plan to run against John A. DeFrancisco, 60, of Syracuse is a worrisome development for the Republican Party, which holds a narrow two-seat majority in the Senate, their last statewide power base.
Incumbency has often been a virtual guarantee of re-election for state lawmakers, but Mr. Green’s potential entry into the race reinforces the idea that Republicans will have to fight more vigorously than usual to hold the Senate in 2008.
Green comes across very well on television and is very intelligent (not just intelligent for an athlete). Let’s hope he gets in. This is about changing Albany.
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