NY-13: Cusick Won’t Run

The top Democratic choices to run for the seat of retiring Rep. Vito Fossella are quickly whittling down.  State Sen. Diane Savino removed her name from consideration last week, and now, Assemblyman Mike Cusick is saying that he won’t be running, either:

“I took a hard look at Congress,” Cusick (D-Mid-Island) told the Advance in a telephone interview moments ago. “I looked hard at what it would take to get there. The one thing utmost in my mind was what would be best for the people I serve, and the people of Staten Island as a whole.”

Cusick said he was also concerned about having a fight over the seat within the Democratic Party.

“I don’t want to have a fight for the seat, a fight in the party,” Cusick said. “This is a hard decision for me.”

With this news, all eyes turn to NYC Councilman Mike McMahon, a Richmond County resident who has expressed an interest in running.  If we can’t get McMahon to run here, or get one of the earlier drop-outs to reconsider, then Team Blue is in big trouble.

(H/T: Jonah in NYC)

8 thoughts on “NY-13: Cusick Won’t Run”

  1. he’d been talking about how he and other democrats (presumably cusick/savino/etc) have to get together to decide who’s gonna run – which presumably means he wouldto offer himself as long as the others weren’t set on it.

    i probably would’ve preferred the other two, but with the GOP prospects dropping much more decisively than we are, i think he’ll take it all the way

  2. I can only see Cusick dropping because he believes McMahon wants it and doesn’t want to run against him.  McMahon also met with the Conservative Party last night, Cusick was unable to being stuck up in Albany.  The Conservative Party has cross endorsed him in his past elections and are quite irate at the state of affairs of the Republican Party at this point.  If a Dem snags this endorsement its game over.

  3. McMahon better run. I was thinking he wouldn’t beacuse of his wife and that Cusick would run instead.

    Draft McMahon!

    Also. If he get’s the conservative line and the Republicans can’t find a good recruit this would be a prime candidate to move to lean D.

    Could McMahon get the Democratic, Conservative, Working Families and Liberal lines?  

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