| The stunning recruiting meltdown for the GOP continues in NY-13. The Staten Island Advance is reporting that state Senator Andrew Lanza will not run for "Papa Vino" Fossella's seat. It's a shame in one respect in that it would have created an open Senate seat, but Lanza was also about the last best bet the NRCC had for holding this seat. Their hopes now reside with the out-of-the-blue emergence of Lisa Giovinazzo who, to be perfectly honest, I've never even heard of. As Jonah points out, out of the 18 people mentioned as potential candidates, her name hasn't been uttered once before about lunchtime today.
That, friends, is called "scraping the bottom of the barrel."
UPDATE: (From Liz)The Local GOoPs are not happy:
As one disgruntled elephant told me earlier this afternoon: "If you can't find someone to run for a seat that was once thought to be a sure-thing for Republicans, you might as well pack it in."
Said another, thoroughly disgusted GOPer: "The Staten Island Republican Party is dead."
This comes on the evening of the big state GOP annual dinner, headlined by VP Dick Cheney.
Well, I guess there's really no one more suited to preside over the Staten Island GOP's funeral than Darth Cheney himself... |
