According to Rove, such special election candidates are selected by the party leaders. in this case it was a private meeting in a pizza parlor.
A poster here said it was a red had society lady who tapped her dear friend Dede to be annointed. (if true this red hat society of old ladies not not as benign as one would have thought)
The NY23 GOP needs to oust their incompetents.
So who got paid off?