"John Bonacic is going nowhere.''

New Blood (0.00 / 0)

New vision, new idears.

I agree completely. As nice as it would be to see Joe Bruno's tenure as "Boss" Senate end I would much rather see new people elected to the legislature. The incumbency protection plan has got to end and the old legislators aren't going to do it. We need people committed to reform to get elected to the Senate.

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by: Andrew C. White @ Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 18:07:09 PM UTC

the Politicker (0.00 / 0)

has an interest post on potential party switchers

On one subject of immediate speculation -- the possibility of partisan defections -- Maltese said he spoke with John Bonacic and Joe Robach, two GOP state senators who, like him, are rumored to be considering a party switch that would hand control of the Senate to the Democrats.

"I spoke with both of them last night," Maltese said, "and both of them told me it's total baloney and they're not interested in switching parties."

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by: SteveWFP @ Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 19:39:46 PM UTC

So, seems like Bush lost Maureen's election (0.00 / 0)

I hope Maltese reflects his party's true belief that Maureen lost her election last night because of George Bush and the Iraq war. Maybe they will think twice about supporting war mongers in the future. But even more importantly they don't get what's happening and what is really important to the voters. 

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by: am @ Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 20:31:02 PM UTC

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On Bonacic (0.00 / 0)

I don't know a whole lot about Robach, but I'd be very, VERY surprised to see Bonacic switch parties.  In fact, the only Republican senator I WOULD NOT have been surprised to see switch parties (in fact, I'd be surprised if he didn't, had things turned out differently), was FORMER Sen. Nick Spano. 

Bonacic being a Republican (but a "liberal" Republican, if you will - I use that term loosely, however) helps him in that district.  With the exception of the New Paltz pocket, that district is pretty solidly conservative.

However, I am also surprised that we haven't seen a strong opponent (a la Andrea Stewart-Cousins, David Valesky, or Craig Johnson) face him yet, seeing as there are a lot of "liberal" pockets in that district, and they continue to grow in size.

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by: irisira @ Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 21:45:58 PM UTC

Susan Zimet was supposed to be pretty good... (0.00 / 0)

Eliot Spitzer even appeared in an ad for her.

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by: Scott in NJ @ Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 04:03:16 AM UTC

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I know Susan... (0.00 / 0)

...she was/is a great candidate....and, she's a member of TAP.

We've got some work ahead of us.

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by: NYBri @ Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 02:48:54 AM UTC

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