Around here, being a Democrat still means something. In the general election. That was true even before the guilt-by-association effects of GW Bush, John Sweeney, and all the DC Re-thugs.
But what difference does Party Committee support mean in a primary? Not what it used to mean. And that's even with the City Mouse/Suburban Mouse Co-Chairs we have in Frank Commisso and Dave Bosworth which was supposed to give us some kind of unity.
Eleven of the County Legislative races had primaries. That's nearly a third of the Democratic seats. Only five of the 11 incumbents won.
And Patricia Slavick, endorsed by the Party Committee did not pull off her race against incumbent Mike Conners. Commisso didn't pull the City votes and Bosworth didn't generate turnout. What's up with that?
Just as well that the County Committee isn't what it was during the Dan O'Connell/Mayor Corning days. Just so long as the Republicans don't gain a foothold larger than the one that Conners and Jennings give them with their Republican endorsements, money, and sometime enrollments.
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Say what you want about Comissio (and I could say plenty), but his 15th Ward in the City went for Slavick - not overwhelmingly, but decisively.
Frank couldn't "deliver the city votes" because most of the rest of the city has decided its loyalty lies with the BS City Committee instead of the County Party.
What turnout did Bosworth deliver in Guilderland?
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