of the Giuliani model.

Just one small example-- last election we asked for some small change for our election office rent, and his campaign would share the space. A normal request and Tim Bishop gave us a few bucks, but Cuomo, with millions in the bank he wasn't using, refused. Presumably, he calculated that the few extra votes he might have gotten by having some office space out here just wasn't worth it.

Supporting supporters just isn't in the works with him.

from his audience, but then the audience is composed of politicians who know how to wait their turn in submitting to the torture of other people's never ending speeches as the price of getting up there themselves to deliver their own. Oh, he says that while his dad was "slipping," he asked him to "stay strong" to give him something to look forward to, Andy's inaugural. Big of him. Droning voice. It's not a deep voice (in all shades of meaning), not a tenor, more like an alto?

Short of criminality and creepy personal proclivities.

almost as much if not more than in fighting the wingnuts. In our system, ONLY the winner matters. My life as a Dem is littered with tears over NOBLE LOSERS. Electability is the prime qualification. Even the most mediocre Dem who actually takes office still inches the agenda forward with thousands of appointments.

would take. See our energy in action, we'd do better proselytizing attempting to convert wingnuts than each other, or not.