Kurita Hits the Airwaves
Rosalind Kurita is up with this spot on cable TV, playing the political martyr and asking voters to strike a blow against party bosses by supporting her write-in candidacy. The odds are heavily against her, and not only because it's an expensive and time-consuming proposition to educate and motivate voters to take the trouble to write in someone's name. It would be almost impossible for even an overwhelmingly popular politician. And let's face it, Kurita isn't popular at all.
Here's an incumbent who outspent her primary opponent by a margin of better than 2 to 1 and still had to go harshly negative in the stretch run to eke out a 19-vote victory. How popular is that?
Kurita casts herself as victim, but we're guessing voters aren't buying it. They probably tired long ago of this little melodrama and wish Kurita would just go home.
Comments
You know, it's funny, but I thought that a state senator represented everyone in her district and not just the half of her constituents who were eligible to vote for her in the primary.
Posted 10/09/2008 at 01:12:08 PMIt's quite possible she will be on the ballot. Her federal court hearing is Friday, October 10.
Posted 10/10/2008 at 04:02:22 AM