This is just getting ridiculous.
With the decision of former Assemblyman Matthew Mirones not to run for the seat of retiring Rep. Vito Fossella, the Staten Island Advance reported that the GOP would likely fall back on NY1 broadcaster Lisa Giovinazzo as their next best option. Giovinazzo, as you may recall, ran for the GOP endorsement against the late Frank Powers last month but lost the party’s vote to the self-funding Powers.
Well, the New York Times reports that Staten Republicans can count her out:
Party leaders on Staten Island said they were looking seriously at a number of potential candidates. […] They had also considered Lisa Giovinazzo, a lawyer and part-time anchor at the cable channel NY1 News. But on Wednesday, Ms. Giovinazzo said she would not be a candidate.
How many times can the GOP be snubbed here? Donovan, Lanza, Fiala, Oddo, Friscia, Mirones, Giovinazzo and even Fossella himself — that’s getting to be quite the list.
So who’s next for the GOP? By my estimation, they have two apparent choices: cross-endorsing Paul Atanasio, the nominee of Brooklyn’s Conservative Party, or cross-endorsing health care executive Carmine Morano, who is running on the Independence Party line. The Times has the straight dope on Atanasio:
Mr. Atanasio resigned under fire from the board of the city’s School Construction Authority in 1999. He had been accused of nepotism by city and state investigators after an investigation into a construction accident at a Brooklyn elementary school in which a girl was killed by a falling brick. According to the investigators, Mr. Atanasio helped his secretary’s husband, who had little construction experience, secure a job as project overseer.
Or the GOP could just give up and not field any candidate. Just a suggestion.
in a pretty even district with an open seat. Wow. Just wow.
Maybe they’ll just pack it and give it up. Then, hopefully McMahon will do what Jackie Speier has done and pony up the hard-earned but suddenly unneeded money to the DCCC (her campaign is actually their top contributor this cycle, I think).
What a wonderful turn of events that would be—a free seat and another 250k or so for the DCCC to utilize.
I read in the Staten Isand Advance that McMahan thoroughly kicked Giovinazzo’s ass in a race for NY City Council in 2002 I think.
On another note, are we reaching a point where we can actually look at nominating Harrison without being afraid of losing in November, or should we look to who can hold it in 2010? I think this race is over from a Rep v Dem perspective.
The lead Mccain had in Tennessee in the most recent rasmussen poll has been split. He now has a 15 point advantage in Tennessee instead of a 30 point advantage. If a trend continues in this direction even in the more conservative areas of the country…could we be looking at a landslide, and could this type of movement make even extremely safe Senators like Lamar Alexander in trouble in November…wouldn’t that be great!
-zak
Democrat killer Jack Davis, running for congress in NY-26.
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because it might be a whole different environment. bush revulsion has created an unusual two election disgust that means we may have for the first time in forever, 2 straight wave elections going the same way.
if obama wins with large majorities in both chambers, that pendulum will begin to swing the other way, no matter how effective obama is.
if the angry, motivated voters are republicans then inexpereinced, extreme left wing congress members in 50-50 districts like a steve harrison or a leslie byrne, will certainly invite serious opposition and could certainly lose.