Schorr raising money for DA race
Dan Schorr, a Republican candidate for Westchester County District Attorney, is having a fundraiser Thursday at 6:30 p.m., Vintage, 171 Main Street in White Plains.Contributions start at $100. Schorr is running against incumbent Janet DiFiore. Call 914-513-3745 for information or log onto www.electdanschorr.com.Â
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Can even wait until after the 2008 elections, how about helping out those who are running this year then start raising money after their elections. There is only but so muney to go around. This shows a selfish side of Shorr that concerns me. Acts a little like Jeanine Pirro with the “Me first” attitude.
What concerns me is that John doesn’t know how to spell the word “money”. I think is you are running against a rich incumbent, the sooner you start, the better.
Money, the root of all politics. Wise people never start fund raising in the year they are running.
To run against an incubent is always harder.
And Janet has a rich group of friends and family.
John, I think you’re confusing “selfish” with “serious.” No candidate waits until election year to bring in money. Do you think McCain or Obama only started their fundraising in January 2008? Please.
If Dan Schorr can get financial backing for his bid at this point, more power to him. He’s not an incumbent and doesn’t seem to have family wealth to draw on the way Janet DiFiore does, so he’s wise to start early.
there is no rule against raising money in any year
preceding an election…Dan Schor will need a head
start..he is running against a popular incumbant
and republicans are down 100,000 in registration
so raise away dan…but spend it wisely!
Who cares if he’s raising money or not. He has every right to take reasonable and legal steps to support his candidacy and garner financing. Stop muckraking over nothing and tell me a real reason to like or not like Shorr.
-(someone who was in APDA)
dan schor is a very nice guy…however his only experience
is a low level ada position in queens new york..no
bureau chief experience, no deputy chief experience
no major job..just an ada ..and in queens there are
about 200 of them….Difiore on the other hand
was a bureau chief in westchester, she was elected
a judge, served with great diligence, and has served
one term as DA..you don’t trade that in so easily
just because you might be a republican because there
really is no republican or democrat way to fight
crime…just the right way..thats what bob morganthau
said about carl vergari, and thats what burt roberts
former democrat da in the bronx said about difiore
“No Republican or Democratic way to fight crime” – except that is, when one is loathe to indict “friends” and your own major (and sometimes minor) party players. This goes both ways. This tired expression, which has become a cliche, affords an easy out to politicians who choose to use it to death when it’s useful to them to do so.
would you happen to have an example where a da failed
to indict a friend or major or minor party player
ie do you have proof of a criminal act by a political
player who was not indicted?
Good assignment for a graduate student or a PhD candidate. Include Attorneys General and DAs. He/she could start with picking a County or a State, or a city, for that matter, researching Mayors and Governors, national and/or local, from A-Z, zoning board officials, legislators national, State and local. Acquiring definitive proof is the job of the very people who neglect to seek proof in cases of obvious disregard for law and ethics because of their very real disinterest in embarrassing the Party (who put and continues them in office) that they ultimately represent. We have allowed to be created a politics of incest. The public knows this, but is hamstrung to do anything about it because no matter how they vote, they inevitably have no alternative but to vote for various political operatives, nominees who effectively are steadfast in maintaining their special status, and in effect, the status-quo
what you are suggesting is a witch hunt..unfair..plenty
of public officials act in good faith ..those that don’t
should be investigated as was rod blogoavich…and put
in jail if they have committed a crime..but you can’t
indict politicians per se just because they won an
election….
“plenty of public officials act in good faith.” Plenty is not good enough. In a barrel of assorted ( if well-meaning) spiders, dumped in your living room, plenty of them won’t poison you.
But being a smart dolphin..you surely must realize
that without probable cause to believe that a public
official is dirty you can’t simply start an investigation
it violates every notion of our system of justice and
our constitution..it would do what the guardian newspaper
does on a weekly basis..turn idle speculation and imagination into alleged factual allegations with nothing
behind those accusations except the opinion of the accuser
the same techniques used by Torquemada the gran Inquisitor
All individualls are entitled to the presumption of innocent
conduct unless and untill the opposite is proven…
Busy as I am trying to educate my kids, clean out my basement, and shovel the driveway, among dozens of other obligations, I expect (naively) the various taxpayer-financed “ethics committees” to sort all this out and protect me. Torquemada, not my favorite historical cleric, was born too soon to appreciate the calming benefits of a long swig or two of King’s Ransom which may or may not have assuaged his admittedly overbearing zealotry. :)
yes indeed he was…but although he was born a tad
too early to enjoy the flavor of the distillery occupying
the very top of the water supply…had he imbibed the
94.6 proof original bottle with wire all around he
probably would have refrained from forcing all those
at his mercy from giving up their “sins”
the moranos still live…viva los moranos..
already been searching for this topic…thanks..