I'm Back

So, between fainting, filming a house meeting for Grow The Hope, a driving to from DC to Albany, NY to help the Working Families Party get votes for Scott Murphy on row E, I have had not time or energy to write here. Daily Chatterings will continue tomorrow.

On Tuesday, March 31st, a special election was held to fill a vacancy in New York's 20th district. This is to fill the seat vacated by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. Everyone knew this election would be close, which is where the WFP comes in. When all was said and done last night, Murphy was up by less than 80 votes, with thousands of absentee and military ballots yet to be counted. I called it going to a legal battle at 10:12pm, just over an hour after polls closed. What I had not known, is that the Tedisco campaign actually filed a motion to overturn the election results before the polls had closed. Before a single ballot had even been counted, Tedisco is claiming the results are wrong, unless he changes his mind (aka: unless he wins).

Anyways, this is going to be a legal fight. It is going to annoying. It is going to be slow. In the end, the winner will have a razor thin margin of victory. I will make the guess now that if Murphy wins, the number of votes on the Working Families Party line will greatly outnumber his margin of victory. That is something that Scott Murphy would do well to not forget.

We will follow this one through the process.