The Democratic primary

I was honored to be invited by Tom Raleigh to his campaign announcement. This was today at the Italian Community Center (next door to my office), so I had to go.

He did a very good job of getting media to show up. Channels 6 and 13 were there, along with reporters from the Gazette and the Informed Constituent. There might have been one or two others.

I don't think he's got a snowball's chance in Haiti, but I'm rooting for him in the primary. It's an insider-outsider thing. The incumbent, along with Sweeney, Gillibrand, Pataki, etc. ... they're all political insiders. On the other hand, Raleigh, Sundwall and myself are outsiders. I'm the most inside of the three of us and I don't feel like I'm on the inside.

Of course, if he wins the primary, I'll have to stop rooting for him. :-)