ny is dooomed...
Posted on 09/13/2006 6:53:16 PM PDT by neverdem
After Mark Green narrowly lost the bitter contest for mayor in 2001, his longtime friend and former employer, Ralph Nader, gave him some blunt advice: Get out of elective politics, and return to citizen advocacy or television commentary.
This time around, Mr. Green is finally listening.
Last night, after conceding to Andrew M. Cuomo in the race for New York attorney general at a shopworn bar downtown, Mr. Green effectively ended his career as a candidate. He told reporters that he would “never run again.”
After his losing bids for the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, the mayoralty and now state attorney general, political consultants and analysts say that Mr. Green, the perennial candidate, had risked being thought of by voters as a perennial loser.
“There is an element of Green fatigue; he has been a candidate forever,” said Doug Muzzio, a professor at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs. “There are certain second and third acts in American politics, but when you’re talking about Act 6 or 7, it’s something different.”
Since his first campaign in 1980, Mr. Green has run for a variety of offices, winning two terms as the city’s public advocate. But even as he remained optimistic about his chances in the days before yesterday’s primary, Mr. Green was telling associates that the attorney general’s race, should he lose, would be his last.
He sent similar signals after his stinging defeat in 2001, but found another office to run for anyway. Now, though, he seemed to be acknowledging that there were few options left.
“What office would he run for?” former Mayor David N. Dinkins, one of Mr. Green’s supporters, said last night before the results were in. “That’s one of the difficulties of this business: there are a lot of good people...”
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he's bad news. the sad part is that, there are many NY Dems who are FAR WORSE then this guy.
the 16 years of Rudy and Bloomberg, and the 12 of Pataki, are going to seem like paradise compared to what's coming in new york.
Just remember on word, NYers, Mayflower
I hope it's a promise.
Gee.. those consultants and analysts are certainly earning their paychecks...
Maybe the guy will get a real job in the private sector. Seriously, Dims just don't know when to quit. Look at Kennedy, Byrd, Jerry Brown in CA, etc. All Rats clinging to the public dole.
I think Pirro has a chance - but she must go negative right away and run ads against Cuomo. the Cuomo name is not wildly popular in NY, and Andrew is hardly a likeable figure.
When I lived in NYC, I used to see Mark Green all the time, by himself, riding the subways. Whatever his many flaws, big-shotting it was not one of them. But he certainly had attained that Harold Stassen aura as a perpetual loser.
Nixon said the same thing.
The otherwise unspeakable Jeanine Pirro will look like George Washington to me this fall.
*holds nose* Go Jeanine!!
The trickster didn't have such a series of losses. I think Green finally might take a hint.
ny is dooomed...
He should run for dog-catcher....
I can not imagine living in a State with Andrew Como as Attorney General.. I would feel like I was in prision.
Help. It's going to be a tough time in NY. Every week, another county says "oops, we said a 5% increase in taxes, what we meant to say was a 19% increase." Then they come out with champagne, say we reduced the increase to 12% and everyone rejoices!
People here don't get it, watch NY swirl down the toilet.
How 'bout one where Eliot Spitzer is Attorney General ? ;-)
This guy is such a communist pig, that I was rooting for frogface coumo to win since the rat will win EVERYTHING in NY in November anyway. Comrade green is in the mold of the worst socialist scum the rat has to offer.
His departure is a very good thing since here in NY he could move to many places and easily win a seat for something.
I feel your pain. We left NY 4 years ago, and while there are somethings that I do miss, I don't miss its awful politicians and taxes. Get out when you can! :O)
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