Written on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 at 2:46pm by Alan Bedenko | 2 Comments

Deep Thought – PM Edition

Why won’t Dennis Delano debate his opponent or appear at candidate forums? Shouldn’t a candidate appear side-by-side with their opponents and explain to voters why he deserves their votes? What’s so “career politician-y” about showing up to a debate?

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  1. Colin says:
    October 21, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    I was at the WFP meeting when Delano came in to ask for the party’s endorsement. It was painful — he had trouble stringing together sentences, and repeatedly promised to use his detective skills to “track down where the money’s going in Albany.” I was so embarrassed for him that I had to get up and leave the room.

  2. 1776 says:
    October 21, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    If Delano spoke in public, he would lose in a landslide. At another endorsement meeting (I think UAW, but may have been AFL-CIO), he said he didn’t know what parts of the region were in the district, and he didn’t care.

    Stachowski is far from likable, and he has no idea how to run a re-election campaign (largely because he has never had to), and I will not deny that there are several good reasons why he was 13 points behind in that last poll. All of that said, Stachowski really does do a lot for being a minority Senator. His work on the Anti-Flipping Task Force has been very significant, particularly with regard to securing resources for people facing foreclosure. Foreclosure accounts for most of the properties that are flipped so fewer foreclosures equals fewer flipped properties (and ultimately fewer vacant properties). Anyone who has worked with Stachowski, or his excellent chief of staff, learn that they are both really quite knowledgeable about their district and do quite a lot behind the scenes to move things forward.

    It is hard to see it from the point of view of always thinking new is better in Albany, and we need to “kick the bums out” but it would be a loss for the residents of the district is Delano won. Delano may have been a very fine detective, but he would be dangerously incompetent as a legislator. He would be a complete joke who would get nowhere. Stachowski, if the Senate flips to a Democratic majority, would be the ranking member (and likely Chairman) of the finance committee, which would make him very powerful and more able to divert necessary resources to this area from NYC (which currently has quite the stranglehold).

 

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