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The Post-Spitzer Era

Right now, many Democrats and Republicans are trying to predict the outlook for their respective parties in the 2008 and 2010 elections.

Quietly, some Democrats who have ambitions for the governorship, like General Andrew Cuomo, already have planners for propping up the Attorney General's image and putting him in line for being the big name in 2010. Will voters be receptive to moving two Attorney Generals to the governorship in back-to-back elections?

Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have had an interest in challenging Eliot Spitzer in 2010, but if Andrew Cuomo runs, would be now reconsider?

And the renewed hope with the dwindling Republican Party of the State. How should they expect voters to respond to its party?

Well, Republicans have to do a few things.

1. Put togeter a party platform that New Yorkers expect of Republicans. One that is fiscally conservative, crime fighting, socially conscious and pro-growth with policies that can renew the entire states economy.

2. Use the list of coruption in Albany as a selling point to increase the GOP in Albany. With one exception, all were Democrats. The list is getting expansive starting at the top. Spitzer, Alan Hevesi, Adam C. Powell IV, Ada Smith, Brian McLaughlin, Diane Gordon, Clarence Norman Jr, Kevin Parker, Guy Velella (the only R), Roger Green & Gloria Davis.

The Assembly Minority really needs to build its stature in the lower house. Fifty seats are needed to block an Assembly override of a bill or law that could be too liberal or too costly for the state.

The Senate Majority is dancing on a one seat majority. The GOP needs to target every seat it lost since 1994 and it needs to have candidates that can focus primarily on the two points I mentioned. It also needs to run on the mantle of Reform. Reform is a key issue for the Republican Party to make its case with the issues I mention.

by Daniel Peterson, Tuesday, Mar. 11 | Permalink



I would urge people not to back Bloomberg, a RINO and turncoat, and to get behind a true, conservative Republican. To think that New Yorkers could have had John Faso, and not this phony, Spitzer. How many RINOs suppported Spitzer? How many donated money to him?

by Alicia Brito , Tuesday, Mar. 11

Posted by Alicia Brito
Tuesday, Mar. 11 - 1:39 PM