On the ground

If you scroll down the page, you can’t help thinking about how much has changed since those entries were posted, huh?

Cindy may luv the gov, but that wasn’t enough to overcome the unfortunate scandal that chased Governor Paterson out of the race. It’s too bad, too, because it has pretty much completely overshadowed the courage and integrity he has shown in tackling the state’s fiscal and economic problems head on, rather than sucking up to core constituencies and leaving the shambles for somebody else to solve.

At this point, everybody is being incredibly coy about it — almost reminds one of “he-who-shall-not-be-named” Voldemort — but we’re all pretty sure that our Democratic candidate for governor will be Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Mr. Cuomo is expected to make his announcement later this month and we are not suffering from any lack of individuals longing to take his place as Attorney General.

The other big change from what is reflected below is that Harold Ford seems to have slithered back out of the lime light and withdrawn his prospective primary challenge to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. This leaves her (a) without a primary challenge to face and (b) at the moment, without a Republican opponent, either.

It’s been interesting to note how little enthusiasm there seems to be from the state GOP to take on Kirsten the Dragon Slayer. Not that I blame them. She’s a great campaigner, raising buckets of money and really terrific when she’s live, and she works her tail off for her constituents once she’s in office, too.

As for the issues with the new voting machines … you’ll be hearing a lot more from us about that in the near future.

Here at the DCDC, we’re gearing up for this year’s campaigns, looking to elect and re-elect good Democrats to all levels of government. Everything from governor down to members of the NY State Democratic Committee will be on the ballot. It’ll be exciting and it’ll probably be a lot of fun, besides.

So, yeah … a lot has changed but it’s all good.