Oros to enter race against Hall
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Rep. John Hall has gained another Republican opponent: Westchester Legislator George Oros.
Oros, a Cortlandt Republcian, said today that he intends to enter the race against Hall and will file paperwork formally establishing his candidacy sometime within the next two weeks.
“I think I have electability,” Oros told Politics on the Hudson just after today’s Board of Legislators’ meeting in White Plains. “I’ve been out there. I’m proven.”
Oros, who joined the legislature in 1995, has been considering a possible candidacy for almost two months. He joins Iraq War veteran Kieran Michael Lalor of Peekskill as the only two announced GOP candidates in the 19th Congressional District.
Hall, D-Dover Plains, is completing his first term in Congress. He beat beat six-term incumbent Sue Kelly, a Republican from Katonah, in 2006..
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“out there” ? where? in the hapless minority of a redundant layer of local government witnessing tax increases, rampant illegal immigration, etc etc.
what are oros’s qualifications to deal with national issues? His accounting skills?
Westchester County has proven that it is completely out of touch with the real people in the 19th district. Oros and his private school kids should kick around White Plains until he gets a crack at county executive.
he cant beat hall in Westchester, and he’ll never bring out the support he needs in the upstate counties of the district.
Boo! on George Oros. I’ll take the marine vet any day
The Marine Vet happens to be an inexperienced boob. All the more reasons why Republicans should support him! Yes to a Lalor/Hall match-up, nothing could be better for the Dems!
I did not vote for Hall the last time, but it appears that he is trying to do a decent job. His popularity has grown around the area and I think anyone running against him may have a hard time.
Oros has proven what? That he’s an uninspiring bore? Let’s get real. This is a vanity campaign by Oros to raise his profile, and just shows what disarray the GOP is in in Westchester. At least the party in Rockland and Orange, along with the senators in the district, have more sense and back Lalor.
Though, to be fair, Oros would be a much better rep than Hall. John Hall is an empty suit; a toady to George Soros and the left wing, but too fearful of Nancy Pelosi and the big money liberal interests to do anything but toe the line set for him by his party betters.
George Oros is a superb man: he is bright, likeable, and open to constituents. Popular, too—I gained signatures for him last summer, and realized a lot of folks in Cortlandt like him. He has a lawyerly mind, which generally makes for the best representative in a combative arena such as the House of Representatives. He is uncorrupt. I live in the 18th, and am only sorry George isn’t running here. (But the 18th was gerrymandered for a Democrat by the “incumbent party” in Albany in 2002.)
Mr. Lalor will find a home in elective office, as a vet such as he deserves. But George is eminently more qualified to be a congressman at this crucial time.
George Oros is a class act. Once again, dumb people criticize someone they don’t know…but as a Councilman, County Legislator, and as Chairman of the Board of Legislators, he showed bi-partisan class while remaining a conservative.
But I’ll tell you this: if George was a multi-millionaire, you’d think he was some dynamic genius. Because all we ever look for these is MONEY, MONEY, MONEY or CELEBRITY, CELEBRITY, CELEBRITY. So when we meet low-key smarts and class, we call it “boring”.