A River Ran Through It
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- February
- 27
If you talk to Democrats and Republicans today about the reason why Democrat Darrel Aubertine beat Republican Will Barclay in Tuesday’s special Senate election, most point to this ad below.
Barclay was unable to recover from the ad, which was done by Spitzer’s advertising guru Jimmy Siegel, and showed how Barclay’s family wouldn’t let people fish on their land.
Barclay’s camp responded with an attack that alleged Aubertine profited from wind farms on his dairy farm, but some GOP officials said the ad wasn’t effective and came too late.
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If this is the kind of nonsense that turns an election, there’s no hope for any of us. Only someone with the intelligence of L’l Abner would let this dumbitude affect his choice of candidate.
Bruno’s Republicans are full of it.
Read the editorial in today’s New York
Daily News, which is not a conservative
paper editorially, for a dose of the truth.
Bruno’s jokers are interchangeable with
the tax and spend Democrats. That’s the
river that really runs through this.
The Republicans got themselves stuck on a sand
bar. It is their own doing, and that of their
dysfunctional “Captain Bruno.” And along with him,
the third term sell-out George Pataki.
ed, what’s worse? That there are folks up in the North Country who will pull a lever based on “this kind of nonsense,” or that there’s a majority of braindead voters downstate who pull the lever everywhere there’s a capital letter “D” after the candidate’s name? At least there’s hope of reaching voters who look at issues; even trivial ones.
ed – your response reflects the type of elitist thinking that helped the GOP lose this race in an overwhelmingly republican district. How you treat your neighbors does matter to people, because it’s a reflection of the attitudes you’re going to bring to Albany. If you’re a member of the rich family living on an estate that charges working class people to fish in a river that’s stocked by the taxpayers, you probably don’t understand the real difficulties that upstate families face every day.
Are they charging people to fish, or rather requesting that they have fishing licenses? Either way, I doubt that Al Gore would allow you to shoot pheasant on his property, wot?
Ed, Al Bore does shoot a lot of bull on his property,
and everywhere else, too.