NY-26: Are The Netroots Worried Powers Will Keep Running?
by Matt at Sep 12th, 2008
Rochester Turning reportedly heard that meetings will be held today on whether or not Powers will continue his campaign, and appears to be concerned that Powers might continue his campaign, since he’ll be on the ballot in November.
Now it is about practicality. The DCCC just pulled support from Powers. The WFP party of NY supports Alice Kryzan even though Powers is on the ballot. Powers failed to win the large populous counties. He still is smarting from Jack Davis’ negative attacks. There is this solid post from swingstate project (which gave me the WFP link above). On the positive side, Powers has a bunch of money in the bank.
Even thinking about running on the WFP party is quite similar to Jack Davis attempting to form his own party just in case he lost the election. Is this, any party in a political storm? I should think not.
I believe the netroots has little to worry about. I don’t see Jon Powers moving forward with his campaign at this point. If he has any desire for a future in WNY politics, he should concede, and move on with his life. I don’t see Powers actively campaign for Kryzan if he does end his campaign. What he really needs now is a new job so he can pay his rent.
Kryzan of course, is now starting to get the attention of various left wing groups.
But Democrats moved quickly to hail her victory, and the DCCC on Wednesday added Kryzan to its “Red to Blue” program for promising candidates running for Republican-held seats. She may also soon be endorsed by EMILY’s List, a Democratic fundraising powerhouse that supports abortion rights.
Something tells me that EMILY’s List isn’t exactly going to be extraordinarily helpful to Kryzan in the 26th District. Her association with Planned Parenthood certainly won’t resonate well with the voters of a Republican-leaning district. Of course, I don’t see abortion being a big issue in this particular campaign, but there are other issues that will be, and she’s on wrong side of them.
I doubt he’ll continue - but so what if he does. Kryzan refused to back down and ended up winning.
Why such a hypocrite. What will you do without a good human being to lie about and tarnish? Will the Bean go out of business? Or drop from 5 readers to 2?
I never lied about Jon Powers. I did something few liberals dared to do about him: ask questions, call him out when he was lying, and point out his blatant lack of knowledge of the issues.
And contrary to your insults I am very happy to say that I have built up a very good readership in the few months this blog has been running. The left no longer has a monopoly on the WNY blogosphere. I will continue to counter their lies and smears and fight on behalf of the interests of WNY