I’ve been rooting for Marco Rubio ever since he announced he was running for Florida senate, and even though he no longer had an opponent in the primary, I still had August 24th marked on my calendar. As I was watching the primary results, just as I’ve been watching for the past few months, it made me wish New York had a normal date.
You see, while other candidates – like Pat Toomey and Joe Sestak in neighboring Pennsylvania – have been running for Senate since the beginning or middle of the summer, here in New York we have to wait until September 14th before we know who our candidates are. Our candidates here in New York have to spend the summer (and first two weeks of September) fighting and spending money on each other, before they even get to their opponents. That includes Governor and BOTH Senators on our side, and the Attorney General on the other.
Show of hands: who besides me thinks that’s ridiculous?
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It’s funny. I have a friend who is as liberal as I am conservative, and we’re always getting into it with each other. When then Congresswoman Kristen Gilligan was appointed Senator, I told my friend, “Leave it to Gov. Paterson to nominate a Democrat I would like more than you to replace Hillary Clinton.”
“Right now. We could create 300,000 jobs in the six months.”
I’m not entirely sure when this happened, but apparently this week the Democrats passed 
