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.<\/p>\n
Doheny’s made his rematch bid public in\u00a0 slightly strange (and juicy for political insiders) way.\u00a0 The announcement came from his new deputy campaign manager and spokesman, Jude Seymour.\u00a0 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!<\/p>\n
Seymour said in his press release:<\/p>\n
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\u2019 ability to pay for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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).\u00a0 We wish him all the best on the “other side of the proverbial curtain”, as he said.<\/p>\n
And so, while I take a deep breath to say it, on with the race!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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