Aide to Senator Little blasts GOP for picking Tedisco

Tupper Lake Republican and Franklin county legislator Paul Maroun uncorked on GOP leaders in the 20th district for hastening to pick Jim Tedisco for the special election race without bothering to interview state Senator Betty Little.

In an interview with Nathan Brown at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Maroun offered this broadside:

“I’m not surprised the race has tightened up so much,” said Paul Maroun, a Tupper Lake Republican who also works for state Sen. Betty Little of Queensbury…

“If they would’ve done what they should’ve done and interviewed the candidates, Betty Little would have walked away with it,” Maroun said.

“I have nothing against Jim Tedisco, but Betty Little is the candidate who could have won that seat.”

Maroun blamed the larger, more populous counties in the district for this. Saratoga County, for example, which Tedisco represents part of in the state Assembly, has a third of the weighted vote, and its Republican Party endorsed Tedisco early on.

Maroun said Republicans need to reorganize and “open the party up to different groups of people.”

Ouch.