On March 16, just over a week away, there will be a Special Election in Queens to replace Hiram "I's dinna do it!" Monsterrott in the 13th Senatorial District.

Of the 108,000 odd registered voters, expect a turnout of maybe 6,000. Maybe. The expected outcome is that a Democrat not named Monserette will likely win this seat, because the district is about 68% registered Democrat and Republicans only have 10% of the registered voters.

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Have you been reading what's going on across the Hudson? New Jersians put aside their liberal leanings and decided to elect a law enforcer to manager the state. For someone who was being criticized for not being more specific on how he'd fix things, Chris Christie has been dropping the gauntlet on out of control spending, while fighting to prevent any tax increases.

Recently, the governor spoke to one hundred of the state's mayors to explain how it's time to act and fix the problem. The state has a spending fever. It needs to sweat it out and deal whether it takes six months, a year, or his whole term...

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This guy looks like a good candidate and will probably make for a good race, but my question is, "Where?"

http://www.petroneforcongress.com

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The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on "fear" of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/33866.html#ixzz0h9SeZgck

That's the open paragraph from Ben Smith at the Politico. Apparently, the RNC believes the Party should just go on the attack, not providing the average voter a reason to vote Republican.

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From Politico:

Rep. John Murtha, one of the most powerful members of the House, who served four decades representing western Pennsylvania, has died at 77.

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The top candidate for the GOP nomination for the 19th Congressional District, Nan Hayworth, has been so unimpressive that sources tell me the National Republican Congressional Committee [NRCC] has all but given up on the race.

Nan Hayworth is vying for the GOP nomination in the race for the 19th Congressional District in New York.  The seat, once held by Republican Sue Kelly until 2007 -- now held by former rock star John Hall -- is considered highly winnable with the growing push-back against the Obama Administration.

The NRCC sees Hayworth as a tremendously unimpressive and uninspiring candidate who has not warmed to local party support and is considered too liberal to get the grassroots base excited. The NRCC is now realizing that she was really only taken into consideration because of her wealth and not her ability to network throughout the district...

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Today, the NY Post reports another parochial school closing in New York City.

The city's first parochial school will be closing its doors in June, church officials said.

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On Saturday, the NY Post ran a piece on some $750,000 of Mayor Bloomberg's money and what it was used for.

[John] Haggerty was also the recipient of a separate, eye-popping $120,000 personal contribution from the mayor on Nov. 20, which went to a political committee he had formed a month earlier and registered at his home in Forest Hills, Queens.

Until yesterday, mayoral aides and party officials had refused for a week to say who was behind Special Election Operations.

Then on Monday, the Post followed up its report saying that the stories on this money are now conflicting.

John Haggerty, a former Bloomberg campaign aide, told The Post that he used the money to pay poll workers on Election Day.

But a longtime political operative says he believes the cash was actually used as "street money" -- handouts deployed by campaign surrogates on Election Day to "encourage" voters to go to the polls.

Were they bribes, perchance?

Today in the Post, we're reading the Mayor wasn't aware of anything prior to the first story written by the paper on Saturday....

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This is old news that hasn't really surfaced, so it would be appropriate for the premiere urban republican blog in New York to bring it up.

One party in New York that has built a strong, yet small base, has been the Libertarian Party. The Ron Paul for President campaign in 2008 rallied a number of small government enthusiasts to start taking action.

Warren Redlich, who is a registered Republican, but considers himself very libertarian, is making the rounds for elective office in 2010 and  it appears he's getting a big push among libertarians to run for Governor.

From his website - Redlich for Governor:...

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Schumer has dipped below the fifty percent approval rating.

So the GOP question should be: Will Larry Kudlow seriously run? Will someone else like Randy Daniels seriously run?

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