| Bloomberg has bought off the Newman-cult-controlled Independence Party in the city, and with Pigeon/Golisano support in the rest of the state, Ford will have that line and continue his campaign after losing the Democratic primary.
FWIW, Bloomberg's latest seven-figure largesse to this sham party has attracted the attention of the US Attorney.
Ford met in a Long Island castle/catering hall with Frank MacKay, chairman of the state Independence Party committee, soon after he launched his campaign.
Now Ford meets with Pigeon, and presumably tells him that Bloomberg will pay for most of it, in one way or another, but any help from Florida billionaire Golisano would help.
Which is music to any political fixer's ears.
I believe that running on the Independence line in November was the plan all along, and one major reason Ford refers to himself as an "independent Democrat" all the time.
No one in the NYC-newspaper cheering section for Ford has asked him about the Independence Party.
Maybe Gawker's John Cook will.
Whatever, this is shaping up as a three-way race in November -- Gillibrand with the Democratic and Working Families lines, Ford with the Independence line, and a little-known Republican with the GOP and Conservative lines.
While Ford hopes for a replay of 2006 in Connecticut, when his good friend LIEberman won a somewhat similar three-way race, it won't happen in New York.
LIEberman was a longtime statewide elected official with 100 percent name recognition, and a lifelong state resident.
Harold Ford of Tennessee, Merrill Lynch, the DLC, NBC and the Park Avenue Regency is neither.
Gillibrand will beat Harold Ford twice this year.
Guaranteed. |
