In NY-23, the race is on
Sixteen months before election day, Republican Matt Doheny announced today he’s mounting another campaign to unseat Congressman Bill Owens. Doheny is the Wall Street businessman from Alexandria Bay who lost to Owens last November, in no small part due to the third party challenge of Doug Hoffman.
Doheny’s made his rematch bid public in slightly strange (and juicy for political insiders) way. The announcement came from his new deputy campaign manager and spokesman, Jude Seymour. Seymour is a top-shelf political reporter for WWNY, and recently for the Watertown Daily Times, who made a name for himself – guess what? – covering the special and general elections for the 23rd Congressional district!
Seymour said in his press release:
Matt and I, as registered Republicans, also share many of the same values. We both are concerned about the direction of our country, because many of the leaders today do not want to address the problems of tomorrow. The Social Security trust fund is expected to be insolvent by the time I turn 58. And Medicare costs continue to outpace taxpayers’ ability to pay for it.
Jude is really a great guy who’s had a great collegial relationship with all the press folks in the North Country (including having done many interview with NCPR). We wish him all the best on the “other side of the proverbial curtain”, as he said.
And so, while I take a deep breath to say it, on with the race!
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No. I don’t want to hear anything about any election race until a few months before the election.
People have better things to do than to listen to all the spin.
Note to GOP: Run a moderate, lose again.
Brian, Fess up. You are happy to announce that the race is on. Happier than the proverbial pig in …
That’s an interesting prediction, JDM, given the GOP moderate garnered many more votes than the ultra conservative in the last election for the NY 23. In fact, if not for the ultra conservative siphoning off a few votes, the GOP moderate likely would have won. Seems to me your prediction is completely backwards and the GOP should discourage an ultra conservative primary challenge or third candidate and instead do everything it can to give the nomination to a moderate.
Jude may be a great guy, but he’s peddling disinformation with his Social Security chicken little statement. Good to know he’s for privatization right out of the gate, though, and isn’t mincing words.
Welcome to the permanent campaign. I’m surprised we even got a 6 month break from it.
I think what a lot of journalists don’t realize that while most journalists love the permanent campaign (because it gives them plenty of easy copy, polls and analysis having largely become a substitute for real journalism), most citizens do not care. Of course, there’s a small minority of people that eat this horse race emptiness up but most have real lives and only feel like making time to follow real issues, not whether the governor’s poll ratings went up 0.08% in the last 12 minutes (this means you Karen DeWitt).
What the Dems need to do is get Doheny aboard the Paul Ryan train to nowhere and then relax.
It IS scary how “permanent” these races are becoming. Obama’s 2012 campaign in full swing, congressional districts that might be changing before the election are underway. I too would prefer less coverage of these stories until at LEAST the year of the actual election. However, this sia blog, and as such is Brian’s opinion and interest first and foremost, and not NCPR headlines. That’s how I always read these threads and they should be taken as such. And of course, here we are commenting, so we fuel as well!
Oops! Sorry, this was a David Sommerstein post! My bad. Same applies, though!