More endorsements in Feld-Oppenheimer race
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Whitney Media, the parent company of WVOX and WVIP radio stations in New Rochelle, endorsed state Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, D-Mamaroneck, for re-election. Whitney Media president and editorial director William O’Shaughnessy, on the radio, said Senator Oppenheimer is “a formidable presence in the New York State Senate, where she is respected by all the important players in Albany. And her wisdom, knowledge and seniority are undeniable and valuable resources for her constituents in the Sound Shore area.â€Â Oppenheimer’s Republican opponent, Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, recently received endorsements from The Sound View News, a community newspaper serving the Sound Shore. That followed an endorsement by Editorial Board of The Journal News, the daily newspaper affiliated with this blog.In its editorial, the Sound View News said Feld “brings and enthusiasm and energy to this race” that would serve residents of the district well and that the best way to reform Albany was to “change the players.”Â
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As I’ve said many times before, O’Shaughnessy should be shot off into space to test the effects of weightlessness on weightlessness.
So, why should O’Shaughnessy stick his neck out, anyway?
When I was young and working in the 1970s at the old LA Herald Examiner, I can recall walking through the newsroom prior to the November 1978 election. The editorial page editor, who hadn’t yet been indicted for his role in “Koreagate,” was sifting through California State Assembly District races while making his off-the-cuff endorsements to his young assistant. “Okay. . .58th District. Jones is ahead by ten points. We’ll endorse him. 60th District. . .Smith is winning in a landslide. We’re with her.” Neither membership in any particular political party nor any character in office shaped the Herald’s endorsement policy.
It was all pragmatic, of course. The Herald couldn’t afford to alienate readers, or potential buyers of the paper. Therefore, it wasn’t going to upset any landed apple carts. Of course, witnessing that confronted my youthful idealism in a way that shocked me. But I grew up.
That’s why we make up our own minds when voting.
You can’t blame Mr. O’Shaughnessy. Me: I think Mayor Feld should be endorsed by everyone. But polls on the eve of the election show her losing, even with the express endorsement of Mayor Bloomberg. What’s to be gained by Mr. O’s going against the grain?
By the way: the Herald Examiner went out of business eleven years after my moment there in the newsroom. And the editorial page editor resigned in disgrace, and just avoided jail time for the Park Chung Hee incident.
We learn, and progress, in life. Hopefully.
frankly i don’t think bill has ever endorsed a non
incumbent..that would make him a sycophant
Dear Tim,
I thought you were off of these discussions until after election day.
I must be wrong.
Question? Are you are voting for Murtagh even though you dislike his campaign manager?!? I know you are voting for McCain.
I hope you are having a Happy Halloween.
GOP Girl
Why no mention of Bill’s very vigorousendorsement of George Latimer? Quel dommage Mr. McKinstry and Tooshay Bill, for recognizing the hard work and the accomplishments of this most dedicated public servant, as some have said, George is the “James Brown of local politicians.
P.
Happy Halloween.
Please Please Please. Get Up Offa That Thang!
GOP Girl, my dove:
You are correct: I was planning to stay away from this blog like cigarettes until after election day.
However, five kids upstairs last night on Halloween (friends of my two boys) sent me downstairs to my office—and a compulsive personality forced me to to look and comment on this blog. Oh well.
Now: I don’t “dislike” Murtagh’s campaign manager: he’s just a stupid, unknowledgable, and inhibited kid.
He simply wasn’t up to the job.
Murtagh will lose next week in a state senate race where he may be the worst losing candidate in 30 years.
Then: one of my kid’s friends’ fathers, who is Tim Cacace, came to pick up his son.
I laughingly told him Murtagh’s going down. Tim diplomatically demurred. He didn’t dump on Murtagh. Tim Cacace is a good soul.
But John Murtagh is unable to build any loyalties among people, because John Murtagh himself is as loyal to others as a whore on a battleship, on payday.
I don’t care if the Smilin’ Sons of the Friendly Shilleleigh (The Honeymooers) endorsed Feld –
O P P E N H E I M E R wins. She wins. Repeat, she wins. Why?
While we’re at it George Latimer wins, too. Why?
1) They are well-known in their districts.
2) They are well-liked in their districts.
3) Their districts are Democratic Districts
4) Democrats voters tend to vote for Democrats in office.
5) It is a Democratic year in Westchester
D-uh.
Neither one of them could run a deli without letting the salami rot and then asking the taxpayers to give them a hand.
Porpoise – you ain’t so smart. The baloney is being dished out by their opponents – Feld would SUPPORT the Republican Senate status quo, and Biagi wouldn’t be able to deliver a pizza as a Republican Assemblyman, much less any plan to cut taxes.
The problem is your Republi-clone had 12 years under Pataki to right the ship and he sold out. The Republi-clones in the Senate sold out, too. Why? Refer to my earlier post:
T H I S I S A D E M O C R A T I C S T A T E
People vote Democratic!! When Republicans try to run as Conservative, tax-cutting Republicans they LOSE (see John Faso). The elected Republicans know it, so they make nice with the unions. In this state, and county, your opinion is in the MINORITY, however fervently you hold it.
The smartest thing is to empower the Democrats you do have, like Oppenheimer and Latimer, both of whom have corporate backgrounds, and give them the attention they need to shape policy within the dominant Democratic Party instead of dumping on them for sport. Replacing them with your Republicans will only make suburban needs irrelevant.
Hard to swallow, but true. Once you accept what’s true, and what’s really possible, change can come. But it won’t come from idiotic conservate ideology. That works in Utah and Alabama, but not in New York.
Suzi has also been endorsed by a major political figure in almost every town in the district and it just goes up from there. Suzi has been endorsed by Westchester County Executive Andy Spano, Governor David Paterson, Congresswoman Nita Lowey, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, and U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton. You can’t call endorsements by all of these well respected people weightless.
Being endorsed by that crew is like Fidel Castro being endorsed by Karl Marx.
So, Donkey, you suggest that we all become teachers and civil servants. Wonder where all the production will come from – from paying off the legislators to deliver pet projects to us at the expense of the rest of the citizens of the State? Pretty cynical. One supposes it’s okay if they are thieves so long as they are OUR thieves. Maybe while we’re greening America we will find a tree that grows money. Too many people have no knowledge of, or interest in, how dollars are created other than with a printing press.
Donkey-
I know you pledge your alleigience to the Democratic Party, which is cool that is what makes our nation so great. I pledge mine to the Republican Party obviously. But you cannot sit here and tell me that Suzi Oppenheimer is good for Westchester. If you sat here and said George Latimer, Nita Lowey, Andrea Stewart Cousins, and Sandy Galef were good for Westchester I could buy it. I am a pretty hardcore Republican but I am voting for Nita and on the fence on the Latimer-Biagi race. But Suzi? Come on, Mayor Feld will go to Albany and at least give an effort. I respect people like George and Nita because they actually go to work and do their job. Suzi on the otherhand has gotten lazy unlike her other Democratic peers.
And anyone continuously referred to as “Suzie,” or “Jimmy,” or “Teddy,” or “Scooter,” or “Flip,” or “Billie,” or “Biff,” or “Sandy,” I can do without as a leader of the free world or a leader of the free State, for that matter. Carter started all this nonsense with his Perry Como sweater, and it’s been downhill ever since.
Tim,
Sorry for the delay in responding-just couldn’t respond.
You are correct about the campaign manager’s inexperience-my Ward Leader flipped when she heard they called me today to make certain I was going to vote, I volunteer at the campaign offices and my ward is locked up for Murtagh.
The ward leader had 3 events – approximately 750-800 senior citizens total for John to pop into and she told the campaign manager- get John there or tell her if he couldn’t make it. Neither happened and the event organizers weren’t happy.
And don’t get me started on the yard signs that were supposed to go up and didn’t.
My ward leader should have been running this campaign-she dots her i’s, crosses her t’s, and makes certain that everyone else has dotted their i’s, and crossed their t’s – and she does it all without a computer.
All kidding aside – my post was smart-alecky because smartporpoise – and so many other conservatives who blog here – are wise-guys know-it-alls. They act as if they actually know the Dems they’re trashing, and the Republicans they’re prasising.
Case-in-point: Rob Biagi. I know him from Pelham Rd. in New Rochelle. He’s arrogant, and self-serving. Never shows up to Greater Pelham Rd. meetings—always pushing a partisan agenda. He’s dumping on Latimer, who by all accounts (except wise-guys posters and the JN Editorial Board) is a terrific, down-to-earth guy. I hear that from Republican locals. I actually heard Liz Feld praising Latimer – they work together in Larchmont. Now I don’t think Latimer is Presidential material…but the guy is good, and Biagi isn’t. That’s my take from New Rochelle.
Suzi is too comfortable after too many years – but as I said earlier, she’s gonna win. It’s a way-Democratic District. C’mon on: Scarsdale! Chappaqua! White Plains! Rye Brook! Liz is fighting totally uphill.
So, when smartporposie acts like every Demmy is a Dummy, it’s “fun” for the blogs – but don’t you believe it. These folk have way more under the hood, even tho’ it’s FUN to crack on ‘em.
You don’t have to agree with us Donkeys. But don’t say we’re stupid or un-American. We just don’t believe in the philosophy you GOPers believe. And I’ve made the point before – there’s more of us in these parts. We’re gonna win all of these elections.
Donkey-
I have always told people I do not hate Dems. What I cant stand is those radical liberals that in my mind are un-American. They hate our military, and hate our government. I like those middle of the road Dems like George Latimer. This guy is a super nice guy who shows up for everything. If the Girl Scouts are selling cookies on the corner of Boston Post Road and Mamaroneck Avenue he is there arm in arm selling those cookies. I will probably vote for George because if anything he cares. Mayor Feld is also a super nice woman who if justice is served will defeat Suzi Oppenheimer tomarrow. You are right it is uphill but if there is a candidate in NY State elections that can care less about the words Republican and Democrat it is her. She just has the energy and honestly cares, unlike Suzi these days. Back to Biagi if you are correct on your accusations then shame on Rob. All politicans have to be some what cocky but not to that level. I want to run for office and I have been called arrogent in the past but I just want justice to be served and Westchester to wake up and elect officials to Albany/Washington who care and have energy.
My Ballot:
Assembly: George Latimer
Senate: Liz Feld
Congress: Nita Lowey
President: John McCain
BI PARTISANSHIP IS WHAT WE NEED DOWN IN WASHINGTON AND ALBANY!!!