NY Repubs looking for Special election for Senate seat.

[Raine1967]

http://www.wptz.com/news/18470728/detail.html

ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's Republican Assembly minority wants a special election to fill the expected vacancy in the U.S. Senate instead of allowing Democratic Gov. David Paterson to make a unilateral appointment through a secretive process.

Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco, a Schenectady Republican, acknowledges a special election could take three months and cost as much as $20 million to seat Hillary Rodham Clinton's successor. He argues that it's well worth the effort to avoid diminishing democracy.

He acknowledges his bill has little chance of passing in the Democrat-controlled Assembly, but says he seeks the same kind of grassroots movement he used to derail former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.
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[GodlessBiker]

1. As we might say in New York, Tedisco is a putz.

[Raine1967]

4. I remember him as one of the bigger Putz'

I moved away in 2006... Stories like this make me miss NY politics....

[billyoc]

2. The unemployment fund is running out of money and this prick wants to spend 20M

on an unnecessary election.

Right.

[Historic NY]

3. what a jackass..especially with a penny pinching budget & layoffs.

[redwitch]

5. Dems candidate was decided today.

Scott Murphy is our candidate and he was very impressive when I heard him answer questions today. I am hopeful.

[Raine1967]

6. Murphy V. Tedisco

Tedisco... the guy who wanted to waste all that money on a special election is running for the seat. (see the OP)

Should be interesting.