Republicans Call For Open Senate Selection Process
The state GOP is calling on Governor Paterson to create a “formal, transparent” process for selecting the state’s next U.S. senator.
“I’m calling on Governor David Paterson to give transparency a try, stop playing footsie with the Kennedy and Cuomo clans and instead announce an open and transparent process that will publicly identify potential candidates for the U.S. Senate Seat and allow for a public vetting of those candidates,” said Henry Wojtaszek, the state GOP’s upstate coordinator and Niagara County chairman.
“We should hear where candidates stand on issues and find out if they know that New York is comprised of more than the 5 boroughs, Long Island and Westchester.”
Wojtaszek called for the creation of a bipartisan commission that would start a public process to interview candidates. The commission would recommend candidates to Paterson.
“We have already seen what happens in Illinois where Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich attempted to sell President-elect Obama’s Senate seat for personal gain,” said Wojtaszek. “Now, all we hear is Paterson must make a smart political choice to help his re-election. Has everyone forgotten this seat belongs to the people?”
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I am a democrat and i agree…here here ! How about a native new yorker in that senate seat, its been over 30 years, since before Moynihan. Moynihan wasn’t even a native.
Ah, memories of Moynihan. One of the few sociologist who ever made sense to me. A poet/longshoreman; a brilliant product of Harlem with a bartender father. Served his country in uniform. Conservative when called for, liberal when it made sense. A tough guy with a tender heart who didn’t entertain fools, but accepted tomfoolery. I remember him best when, at Harvard, committee after committee was formed to protect the student body from two muggers who were described by students, and were for months preying on them on the streets around the square. Busing was set up so that students could call and get a ride rather than walk back to campus. Finally, Moynihan spoke: Forget these committees, these meetings, these buses, these seminars on safety. Let’s go out tonight and get these two sonsofbitches off the street! His like has not often been seen since,
but kenneth b keating was..and he was beaten unfortunatley
by bobby kennedy..then we had james bukley in a split race
with godell and ottinger….buckley was a conservative
but conservatives in those days were just that ..fiscally
conservative…foreign policy wise…it wasn’t until the
right to life party endorsed d’amato and vacco that the
republican party started to disintegrate…originally
conservatives in new york didn’t care about your social
positions…but with the right to life party…everything
changed….vacco lost….d’amato lost …primarily because
they thought (thankks to the brilliance of kieran mahoney
and his brother jerry) that being pro life in new york
was smart..as it turns out ….the party is now defunct
and the conservative party now has taken up the cause
which is of course why the republican party is in shambles