CD 4 Ballot

[buffalo03]

Any news on whether the appeals by O'Grady and Irace to get back on the ballot were successful?

[ridinghi]

They're still waiting to hear judges ruling.

Rumor has it that Sleaza has already prepared to appeal to albany if O'grady/Irace are victorious in Brklyn.

[Bill OReilly]

Per yesterday's 2nd Dept. deicsion and subject to the outcome of any appeal to the Highest Court in the State (not named the Supreme Court), here's the lineup:

Rep.
Frisa, O' Grady or Irace.

Dem.
McCarthy

Con.
Frisa or O'Grady

Lib. Chandra Levy

RTL O'Grady

[Really OBill]

I'd vote for a dead Congressional intern on the liberal line over a live Republican Frisa on any line any day.

[PoliticsIzLife]

O'Grady & Irace are back on against Frisa. Skorski withdrew b/c he signed his own petitions like 4 times and also had people who don't live in the district sign. A BIG no-no. McCarthy is still a do-nothing representative. It's going to be close in the GOP primary. I don't know who I'm voting for, but it won't be Frisa.

[ridinghi]

I don't know how many times he signed the petition, but it wasn't 4.
Irace, not Skorski, signed up people from outside the district

I 'd love to find out if Sleaza would have survived a challenge. With 1600 names, statistically, he would have been knocked off

[PoliticsIzLife]

He would not have survived it. If he did, it would have been by the hair on his chin. That was one of the main reasons O'Grady and Irace were reinstated--b/c Frisa had many problems with his also. So the court, for all purposes sake, let it slide.

[ridinghi]

Actually, they were reinstated because they were able to appeal, after being knocked off, on a technicality.
Apparently Sleaza's expensive lawyers made a technical error when they filed their challenges.
According to operatives on the scene, Sleaza was supposed to sign, before a notary, that the allegations are true. He forgot to.

[Mr Conservative]

If what you say is true, why didn't Skorski get himself reinstated? For someone who claimed to have money in his corner, why couldn't he appeal his withdrawl? Can he run as a write-in candidtate or not? If so, the question now is...will he? Is he willing to look like a fool by pressing on with what seems to be a lost cause, doomed by his own poorly run campaign. Speaking of which, did he have Dick Morris in his corner or not? Who was campaign manager? Was it someone who had connections and know how?

[ridinghi]

I don't know how or if he's looking to get back on. One school of thought says O'grady, Frisa, and Irace haven't done anything to pull this thing off so maybe he can and should re-consider.

How did Dick Morris get involved?

I've been watching other campaigns and gotta tell you, most challengers do not have the most sophisticated teams and for a first timer like Skorski he didn't too to shabby.

[Mr Conservative]

MOrris was Skorski's advisor, the one who devised the email strategy that was the centerpiece of the campaign. I don't know who was the manager of the Skorski campaign team, but from what I've heard, it was some 25 year old kid out of California who's connected to the old Buckley crowd. I knonw that the campaoign chair is an old friend of his.

[grantfan]

yea i think he's now managing that finley campaign, i am sure that california guy knows long island voters real well
to manage a congressional race

pathetic for skorski and if its true pathetic for finley

[ridinghi]

You are probably right about the Morris involvement, but are wrong on the California kid.
I spoke with some DC folks, the Calif kid has been involved with more winning campaigns than most people twice his age.

He seems to be the one guy who brought calm over the camp.Whenever I saw Skorski at campaign events,there would be campaign people hanging around him trying to look important.

I guess that's better than Frisa, Ogardy, and Irace who never had anyone hanging around with them.

I just hope if he does make another go at it that he makes a clean, fresh start and dumps the leaches who were trying to make names for themselves at his expense.

That's the problem with first timer's. They don't know better, and accept the word of every dufus who approahes them.

Maybe Skorski will learn from this experience, maybe he won't.

Has anybody heard from him since he withdrew or is he pulling a Frisa and disappearing?

[Mr Conservative]

the kid from the west coast, what do you mean he brought calm to the camp? Who were those leaches latched onto the bandwagon. Based on what I saw, he had connections to the gun owners and the Jews exclusively. ONe more thing: the kid, did he manage the signature debacle, and does he know the Island voters well enought to run a top campaign? We're not your usual bunch, and he was apparently the head of local right wing college troublemakers crowd. I always got the feeling that Alan was too close to the gun owners, and that his campaign relied too much on the Jews. Were his chances in the primary any good?

[Pollster]

Over the course of the campaign those references from the Skorski camp to the BIG SUPPORT IN THE JEWISH COMMUNITY were laughable.

As was shown before there are about 5 active Jewish Repuiblicans in the GOP organization left, they can be found on the Town of Hempstead payroll. Aside from them the rest are paper Republicans and have little actual policy agreements with the local, state or national GOP. Most of the gun owners, while potentially a powerful group, were not activated effectively. In any case most feel sympathy for Carolyn McCarthy and required a non-traditional nuenced approach that Skorski failed to comprehend.

Skorski tried to stand a mass campaign on the tip of pin. Not a forumla for success.

Perhaps Skorski would like to add what support he does have though to the movement for Reform of the local GOP. Seems like the ineffective Joe Mondello Company could even arrange an open ballot contest. More than blame Frisa, seems he should be dissatisfied with Mondello & Crew.