This is the most important race in the country that nobody is talking about. The NYS AG race is important because it governs "Wall Street" and much of the nations businesses. The current AG Andrew Cuomo is moving up to Governor and there is an open race to replace him as AG. There are 5 fairly different candidates running. Unlike 2006, there are no heavy hitters like Cuomo Jr. and Mark Green. I have to learn about these 5 from scratch. The five candidates are:
Richard Brodsky:
http://www.richardbrodsky.comSean Coffey:
http://coffey2010.comEric Dinallo:
http://www.ericdinallo.comKathleen Rice:
http://kathleenrice.comEric Schneiderman:
http://www.ericschneiderman.com_____________________________________________________________________________________________
Here's a brief bio from a blog called "Above the Law
Kathleen Rice — Nassau County D.A.: She was the first woman to be elected a D.A. on Long Island. She’s hoping the suburban credibility will help her not just on Long Island, but also in upstate New York. She wants to out people who are mean to the environment. She’s the front-runner, with 4% of the vote.
Eric Schneiderman — New York State Senator: Elected official from the upper west side is doing what politicians from the upper west side do. He’s putting together a coalition of “labor, liberal and black voters in New York City,” according to the New York Times. He’s also got endorsements from damn near everybody who wants to be Mayor once Michael Bloomberg decides to go back to being a billionaire. He’s polling at 3%.
Sean Coffey — partner, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann: You can’t have a New York election without at least one person trying to buy the office. For this race, that person is Coffey. He’s focusing on upstate concerns. A rich guy who is more concerned about Albany than Wall Street? Well, he should be getting the bankers’ votes. He used to be a partner at (wait for it… Latham). Don’t worry Coffey, you can still win the NYAG’s office without the vote of ATL comments. Though, since you’re polling at 1%, you might want to make a direct appeal to ATL’s twitter following.
Richard Brodsky — New York State Assemblyman: He’s the Assemblyman from Yonkers and Westchester. As an elected official, his signature issue has been regulation of the Indian Point Nuclear plant. Since that issue is so 1985, we’ll see if he has any new tricks tonight. Polling at 1%.
Eric Dinallo — Former Superintendent of Insurance for New York State: Remember when Eliot Spitzer went to D.C. and had sex with that prostitute? Spitzer was down in D.C. to testify in front of Congress about pending crisis facing large insurers like AIG. Also down in D.C. to give testimony? Eric Dinallo. Dinallo really tried to warn people about what was going to happen to companies like AIG. Nobody listened. But unless something really interesting happens tonight, Dinallo has my vote next Tuesday. I might be the only one, Dinallo is currently polling at 0%.
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/09/new-york-state-attorney-general-debate-the-liveblog/___________________________________________________________________________________________
Each of the candidates have varying levels of endorsements. Schneiderman and Brodsky probably have the most "big" endorsements. You can learn about that on their sites.
Schneiderman was endorsed by the NY Times:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=169x9684Dinallo was endorsed by the NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/08/22/2010-08-22_go_with_dinallo.htmlIf you read those endorsements you'll see a completely different picture of the candidates. The NY Times raves about Schneiderman and considers Rice a throwaway candidate. The Daily News raves about Dinallo and Rice and ignores the other three. It's really a matter of personal preference and that why NYers should take the time to study the candidates and the issues.
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There have been several debates. I have found a couple of them online.
WABC debate from August.
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/video?id=7561334NY1 Debate from 9/7:
http://www.ny1.com/content/125089/ny1-online--democratic-ag-hopefuls-debate-on-ny1There are also several video clips from a NYS Democratic Lawyers Council Debate available:
http://www.youtube.com/user/nydemocraticlawyers#p/c/AED033B40D9E9E7DI found a live blog of last nights debate at Above the Law:
http://abovethelaw.com/2010/09/new-york-state-attorney-general-debate-the-liveblog___________________________________________________________________________________________
I am going to look for more info on each of the candidates and post it in this thread. I will start one post below for each candidate and build from there. I plan to watch the WABC debate I posted here and post important info down thread. Although I am undecided, I will not pretend to be even handed.
I like other NY DUers don't know who to vote for yet. I like many of you am pretty opinionated and I know who I like to support. This time I need to figure it out and from scratch, as do other DUers. Please help your fellow NY DUers make the best decision possible.
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