I live in NY17 -- The history is that Sean Patrick Maloney who headed up the DNCC spent his time admiring what a great job he was doing and in fact paid little attention to the district. Then last time the dems ran Mondaire Jones -- who wasn't really from the district but with redistricting he ended up here -- had no contact with the Roc…
I live in NY17 -- The history is that Sean Patrick Maloney who headed up the DNCC spent his time admiring what a great job he was doing and in fact paid little attention to the district. Then last time the dems ran Mondaire Jones -- who wasn't really from the district but with redistricting he ended up here -- had no contact with the Rockland, Putnam part of the district and was a poor fit for the district. So.... here we are and this time there are some VERY GOOD local candidates and much displeasure with Lawler "I'm the most bipartisan representative" but I vote like MTG. So he has a real chance of losing -- won't be surprised if he runs for governor seeing that his chances locally have just gotten much less promising. He's not stupid -- just corrupt (oh yeah he took several million from Elon for his last campaign that only recently came to light from FOIA requests.
Lawler has a better chance at winning reelection to the House than winning a general election for governor, but not by much IMO and the difference between the two offices makes it a no brainer. His problem is the primary, Stefanik would be the odds on favorite in a heads up race.
If Lawler win reelection to the house and sticks around for another year or so he becomes eligible for the congressional retirement fund. That would be one reason to stick around.
Any ideas as to who a strong Lawler opponent might be? The latest entrant (John Sullivan) seems interesting, but he only recently moved to the district after resigning from the FBI. I was hoping for a strong local elected official to run.
I live in NY17 -- The history is that Sean Patrick Maloney who headed up the DNCC spent his time admiring what a great job he was doing and in fact paid little attention to the district. Then last time the dems ran Mondaire Jones -- who wasn't really from the district but with redistricting he ended up here -- had no contact with the Rockland, Putnam part of the district and was a poor fit for the district. So.... here we are and this time there are some VERY GOOD local candidates and much displeasure with Lawler "I'm the most bipartisan representative" but I vote like MTG. So he has a real chance of losing -- won't be surprised if he runs for governor seeing that his chances locally have just gotten much less promising. He's not stupid -- just corrupt (oh yeah he took several million from Elon for his last campaign that only recently came to light from FOIA requests.
Lawler has a better chance at winning reelection to the House than winning a general election for governor, but not by much IMO and the difference between the two offices makes it a no brainer. His problem is the primary, Stefanik would be the odds on favorite in a heads up race.
If Lawler win reelection to the house and sticks around for another year or so he becomes eligible for the congressional retirement fund. That would be one reason to stick around.
Or he could be Governor of New York. I kind of feel like those people aren't too worried about their retirement fund.
Yeah that retirement after 5 years is only like $10k a year once he turns 62.
Any ideas as to who a strong Lawler opponent might be? The latest entrant (John Sullivan) seems interesting, but he only recently moved to the district after resigning from the FBI. I was hoping for a strong local elected official to run.
Jones was from Rockland and an elected official there.