Suozzi Hires Ex-"Press" Man
His early policy stuff -- abstinence, no new taxes -- has slanted that way, as have his hires. First there was former Lieberman staffer Dan Gerstein.
And now Suozzi has hired Harry Siegel, a former editorial-page editor at the New York Sun and the former editor of the conservative alt-weekly New York Press, as his policy director. Harry is the one who quit, with his deputies, after his publisher refused to run the famous Danish Mohammed cartoons.
Suozzi aide Kim Devlin calls him "a real find."
As for Siegel's politics, he's an idiosyncratic urban conservative, though I'm not sure he'd describe himself that way. Here's from the manifesto he ran on taking over the Press:
Everyone agrees not only that the city has changed immensely since 1988, when New York Press was founded, but also that something has been lost. Only fools and charlatans, though, wish it were 1988 again, when the city was crime-ridden and madman-strewn, on the cusp of bankruptcy and the verge of race riots. A different group of fools and charlatans are ecstatic about Gotham's brave new existence as a place for college grads to drink, screw, and so forth for a few years before growing up and settling down elsewhere and for tourists to shop and gawk; a mixture of circus, campus and strip mall.These need not be the only alternatives, but it's where we now are. Gotham is fast becoming Mayor Bloomberg's vision of a luxury city, where the wealthy subsidize the poor and everyone in between scrambles to make it. Or leaves. And that's not to mention the vision—we use the word generously—of the Democratic candidates.
Not sure how that translates into policy. Also in that piece, an account of some stumbling drunkenness, which everyone's in favor of.
But now that we're getting some real ideological distinctions in the Democratic Primary, this seems like a reasonable question: What do Spitzer and Suozzi think about the Iraq War?
I suspect, like the death penalty, that liberals won't like either's answer.
How do you win a NY state- wide Democratic Primary without significant "black" suport?
Any answers Gate?
Let me jump in Rock, and ask what you mean by "significant." Is it a question about the leaders who deliver nothing, or the electorate? Or both?
If it is the electorate, is "significant" a function of raw numbers or percentages? Because those two things are definitely no longer linked. Suozzi COULD win without "significant" black support - he would need "some" black support - which in and of itself would be "significant."
BTW, saying that he COULD doesn't mean that he CAN, or that he WANTS to win that way, just making a point. Same applies to Eliot - who IS far better positioned.
What you mean Suozzi doesn't have significant black support? He has Rock Hackshaw!
*yawn*
gatemouth, you are wrong again, Suozzi is against the dealth penalty, Spitzer is for it.
To 4:51 ( Gate), I have so many detractors amongst Dem officials I don't know if I hurt more than help. I've been fighting them for so long now, tiredness has turned into rejuvenation.
I find most of them to be real 'sorry'and without spines. I have run enough candidates against them to fill a ledger.
It's a real real uphill struggle for Suozzi, but I am hopeful.
To Lead Dog (4:33).
You hit it on the head. The elected black officials usually endorse in a wolf-pack, and their endorsements mean a lot in the black communities since most black voters are intellectually LAZY. (YES, I SAID THAT).
Suozzi has a serious challenge amongst black voters. he will have to be verey imaginative.
Lead Dog: My numbers suggest that to win a Dem primary statewide you need at least 33% of the black vote. Otherwise you will have to practically sweep the white and/or hispanic vote.
You may disagree.
5:10:
I am grateful to be corrected.
Although I don't regard executions are immoral (some folks really don't deserve to live), I oppose the death penalty because the criminal justice system is capable of ghastly injustices, and death is, under science as we know it in 2006, irreversible. So, another good reason to support Suozzi!
Spittzer is not only pro-death, he practically ran as the angel of death in his 1994 race for AG, complete with pro-death push-polling.
Morevoer, while I'm allergic to neo-con policy wonks (except, perhaps as a token on a far more broad-based team), I do remember that Spitzer once founded and funded his own neo-con think tank, in partnership with his Republican pal, Dennis Saffran, who later ran against Tony Avella.
Frankly, while Spitzer may sing a more liberal tune these days on most, but certainly not all, issues (Suozzi seems more inclined to comply with the CFE ruling), both these guys have little claim to being left of the party's center, which is just fine with me.
5:10:
I am grateful to be corrected.
Although I don't regard executions are immoral (some folks really don't deserve to live), I oppose the death penalty because the criminal justice system is capable of ghastly injustices, and death is, under science as we know it in 2006, irreversible. So, another good reason to support Suozzi!
Spittzer is not only pro-death, he practically ran as the angel of death in his 1994 race for AG, complete with pro-death push-polling.
Morevoer, while I'm allergic to neo-con policy wonks (except, perhaps as a token on a far more broad-based team), I do remember that Spitzer once founded and funded his own neo-con think tank, in partnership with his Republican pal, Dennis Saffran, who later ran against Tony Avella.
Frankly, while Spitzer may sing a more liberal tune these days on most, but certainly not all, issues (Suozzi seems more inclined to comply with the CFE ruling), both these guys have little claim to being left of the party's center, which is just fine with me.
Hey Gate (regarding your last post/ and giving you a lil insight into where I come from politically/lol): I agree that some people deserve execution because their actions/deeds forfeit their right to be amongst civilized humans, but as long as the death penaly is racially applied, it shouldn't be supported. If however this flaw was corrected ( don't ask me how please ) then it could (maybe even should) be supported.
What is fascinating about politics here is that so many people are single-issue oriented. I find that really amazing.
to 6:28 (Rock):
Rock, Rock, Rock ...the 4:51 post was meant to be sarcastic.
I'm not unsympathetic to your point about the racial inequities, but I'm more concerned about sorting out the innocent from the guilty. Don't see any solution though. In fact, I think we might reach the solution to your issue before we reach the solution to mine (but if we could eliminate the human desire to enage in racial prejudice, we could probably also eliminate the human desire to murder).
I'm reminded that in the 70's, Senator Dale Volker of Depew stated that without capital punishment we wouldn't have Christianity (not necessarily the point to win me over). Hugh Carey responded that it wasn't death that gave birth to Christianity, but the Ressurection (me, I always hoped it was the Sermon on the Mount, but clearly history has proven me wrong), and then said "Dale, if you can incorporate Ressurection into your bill, I'll sign it".
Getting away from the death penalty, can anyone tell me why Suozzi is making a kamakazi run at Spitzer instead of running for Congress in NY3 against King? This makes no sense.
8:21: Thank you. That's precisely the question I've been wondering about.
Because he is needed as GOVERNOR.
AND if by ill-luck he loses, he can go at King in 2 years( maybe).
Regarding the need to get 1/3 of the black vote to win the primary.
How does this play with the Suozzi Italiano ethnic play?
Does a secular jew in Spitzer have a more natural appeal to black voters?
Rock Hackshaw and Gatemouth are ruining politicker comments
BTW, can anyone tell me why I should care what the Governor thinks about the war?
Cheerleaders make bad know-it-alls. After reading all of the positive Suozzi slant, I thought I was reading the postings of a fantasy league. Why would anyone care about what a Governor says about the war, unless they are going to talk about how the money being wasted in Iraq can be better spent upstate
Spitzer is FOR the death penalty??? That is enough for me to vote against him, and I was going to vote FOR him. Wow.
Has anyone noticed that Suozzi is a better candidate than his staff. They sell Dan Gerstein as a former Lieberman staffer. Is that a good thing? Did Lieberman campagin for president crash and burn. Harry Siegel working for the New York Press. Now there a mainstream paper that is tune with the NYS voter.
Time for Suozzi who can become a class candidate to get a class campaign team around him
It's not like he hasn't asked everyone.
I always thought Devlin was classy.
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