Another Republican Ready To Bail
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- August
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I have it on good authority that Westchester DA Janet DiFiore, the last Republican “star” in the county, will soon announce that she is leaving the GOP to become a Democrat.
Insiders tell me DiFiore will follow the exit strategy already employed this summer by Yonkers Assemblyman Mike Spano, who has long seen the writing on the wall: Moderate Republican candidates are outnumbered in Westchester and in New York state and are held hostage by third party crackpots who run the Indepedence and Conservative parties.
DiFiore can probably always win as a Republican—she’ll get plenty of cross-over votes from Democrats—but from a purely strategic point of view, it’s understandable that she would extricate herself from the corrupt power brokers, who “sell” third party endorsements.
The shame is that Westchester is now virtually a one-party county—and gee, don’t you feel great that the Democrats are running everything?
It’s not clear when DiFiore will jump ship, but I’d say this is a good week to do it. It’s the slowest news week of the year. People are on vacation. No one is paying attention.
Don’t be surprised if she makes the announcement on Friday at 5 p.m., just when we’re all thinking about that first beer!
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on Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 at 11:33 am by Phil Reisman.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
