Newsday, a leading Long Island paper, has delivered a major endorsement to Craig Johnson (D-WFP). This is a big endorsement because Newsday is widely read and respected, and it's the only daily on Long Island, so it'll get in the hands of the people most likely to vote on their own in the special. Newsday boils it down to this: "Newsday endorses Johnson, who was willing to take a tough vote as a Nassau legislator and will do so again in Albany."
Craig Johnson is running in a Feb 6 special election for an open New York State Senate seat in northwestern Nassau County.
Here's another key quote on Craig:
"In the end, the choice should go to the candidate not with the most powerful backers - including admirable ones like Spitzer - but the one with the best skills, experience and policies. That is Johnson."
and I thought this one on O'Connell was telling:
"[i]n 2003, this page called one of her Assembly votes on the budget a profile in cowardice and cynicism. She tried to have her cake, by overturning a veto of school-aid cuts, and eat it too, by not being willing to pay for it with an income-tax surcharge."
6 days until Election Day!
See the press release and more endorsements at the WFP Blog.
