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| LAQUIDARA |
The Rensselaer
County Democratic Party Executive Committee endorsed Carmelo Laquidara for
district attorney, Saturday.
Well, it’s shy of
an all-out endorsement in that the Democrats only voted to send his name to the
governor for consideration and the whole committee will need to meet to
actually nominate him for its formal candidate sometime in the near future. Obviously,
that’s a given.
The governor could
appoint Laquidara, or anyone else for that matter but odds are he won’t buck
the local party, to fill the spot left vacant by Rich McNally, who is now a
Supreme Court judge. There will be an election in November for a full four-year
term. Right now, McNally’s number two guy, Arthur Glass, is filling in as DA by
default.
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| ABELOVE |
If Gov. Andrew
Cuomo does decide to appoint Laquidara, the City of Rensselaer judge will have
a leg up on any Republican opponent since it’s always easier to run as an
incumbent. Laquidara also has decent name recognition and has run county wide,
narrowly losing a primary for Rensselaer County court judge to Troy City Court
Judge Christopher Maier.
For the
Republicans, three names are out there with the frontrunner apparently Joel
Abelove, a former assistant district attorney under then DA Trish DeAngelis who
lost to McNally in 2012. Others who have either sent a letter of interest to
the GOP are Troy attorney Bill Comiskey, who ran for Troy city court judge in
the 80s and North Greenbush attorney Kathryn Dell, who ran for DA in the 90s as a Democrat.
thought dell was a dem......................!
ReplyDeleteCarmelo's a great choice. And if that's all the GOP's got, he'll have an easy campaign.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the Republicans will run Hank Bauer. Given all his failed campaigns, there must be a DA palm card out there somewhere with his face on it.
ReplyDeleteB dunne not a happy man today. Bad press and valenti dibacle will run Wednesday
ReplyDeleteSeeing Bill in his pre-war sweater-vest brings back memories of bad movies & Boy George.
ReplyDeleteBill is dreamy. Who else do we have to look at during council meetings?
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