The only good Republican. . .
Sep. 2nd, 2007 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzilla. . . is an ex-Republican.
In the last few months, two high-profile Westchester elected officials have stopped being moderate GOPs and become Democrats. This includes my state assemblyman, Mike Spano and my district attorney, Janet DiFiore. Both said, in effect, that the national Republican party was supporting an agenda that they could no longer share.
(Long-time readers might remember that my Republican state senator for many years, Nick "No Relation" Spano, was defeated last year by Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the only turned-over seat in the NY State Senate. The NY legislature is incredibly entrenched.)
Obviously, I'm very proud to have elected officials who can see the handwriting on the wall. What interests me is whether Westchester is unique, or whether there are other state- or county-level conversions going on that aren't making the national press--because, after all, the only government which matters in the eyes of the national media is The White House.
What's going on where you are?
In the last few months, two high-profile Westchester elected officials have stopped being moderate GOPs and become Democrats. This includes my state assemblyman, Mike Spano and my district attorney, Janet DiFiore. Both said, in effect, that the national Republican party was supporting an agenda that they could no longer share.
(Long-time readers might remember that my Republican state senator for many years, Nick "No Relation" Spano, was defeated last year by Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the only turned-over seat in the NY State Senate. The NY legislature is incredibly entrenched.)
Obviously, I'm very proud to have elected officials who can see the handwriting on the wall. What interests me is whether Westchester is unique, or whether there are other state- or county-level conversions going on that aren't making the national press--because, after all, the only government which matters in the eyes of the national media is The White House.
What's going on where you are?
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Date: 2007-09-03 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-09-03 03:10 am (UTC)Obviously, he's a really interesting, and really encouraging case.
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Date: 2007-09-03 03:14 am (UTC)Specifically, he switched to avoid the crazy NYC Democratic primary process.
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Date: 2007-09-03 05:08 am (UTC)What took them so long to figure that out?
Everybody who can be pried out of the Republican Party around here probably already has been so. That includes one of the local state legislators, who's been a Democrat for a couple decades now.
Our loathsome Republican ex-congressman, Ernie Konnyu, so embarrassing even to his party that he was defeated in the primary after only one term, popped up in the newspaper recently with a bratty letter about the Democratic presidential candidates. He's sure they will cause votes to flock to the Republicans. Uh-huh.
In Minnesota They Have
Date: 2007-09-03 08:47 pm (UTC)Even my sweetie
No, he hasn't bolted the party yet.
More's the pity.
I always said I'd vote Republican federally if the ticket was Lincoln Chaffee and him.
Both are old-line Republicans who I have nothing but respect for.