It has been a busy few days up here in The Great Northeast. With the appointment on Friday of Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate, Upstate New York is now scrambling to fill a vacancy in The House of Representatives.
-One person mentioned is a former news anchor and another is a current anchor.
-Republicans have a bunch of candidates as well; including a former candidate for governor.
-There are several potential candidates who don't even live in the district, on both the Republican and Democratic side.
One thing is for sure, this is going to be a very interesting race to watch. I bet it will also get very dirty, very quickly. Republicans would love to get this house seat back. It is very possible since this is an R+3 District. The other thing to keep in mind is that this district might not be long for this world. New York is expected to loose 1 House seat in 2010 and if the Senate stays in Dem. control, they would love to divide up this district into the other 3 districts it surrounds.
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In other news, former New York State Majority Leader Joe Bruno was indicted in Federal Court on Friday on corruption charges. This really is not a big surprise to me. Bruno, who retired last year, is about as corrupt as you can get. Personally, I think he retired cause he knew the charges were coming and if he had stayed in The Senate, that seat would have definately gone over to Dem. control. It should be very interesting to see how this plays out.
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