tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21177018.post114075779713837783..comments2023-08-05T09:36:31.185-04:00Comments on New York's 24th District Independent: How Much Would it Cost for Arcuri and Tytler to Get It Up?24thIndependenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16411599694795845193noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21177018.post-1140833802036639152006-02-24T21:16:00.000-05:002006-02-24T21:16:00.000-05:00A certain assemblywoman is Arcuri's patron. Is 9:...A certain assemblywoman is Arcuri's patron. Is 9:45 a county dem outsider for any particular reason? Are you a Koziol supporter?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21177018.post-1140792321877968612006-02-24T09:45:00.000-05:002006-02-24T09:45:00.000-05:00Tytler just got started and hasn't gotten around t...Tytler just got started and hasn't gotten around to it yet, but yes, should have. Arcuri is harder to figure out. What's he thinking? What's his strategy? It must be that he's banking on support from power brokers to whom it is largely irrelevant what actual voters think. He's got a hot-line to those people, I guess, and doesn't need to reach them via a website and blogs. For all I know, those people are still pretty much phone-based, and yes, as someone said, smoke-filled- rooms-based. Yet the Democratic Party machine just risks perpetuating its own irrelevance to the extent it continues to operate this way: take a look at the County committees. Who are their leaders and members? To what extent do they actually represent you and your priorities? What are they in it for? Hobnobbing at gala events? Or actually doing real work for the people they are supposed to represent? As I understand the district, some counties specialize in the former, some in the latter. Oneida County, Arcuri's base, spectacularly specializes in the former. The Oneida County Democratic Committee is all hobnob and no action; the current chair, hobnobber extraordinaire, owes his seat to Arcuri's backing. Given this, Arcuri's lack of a website says very clearly to me that reaching voters is very low on his list of priorities right now. I keep expecting this to change, I grow more incredulous every day that it is STILL not changing, and here it is virtually March already....so I have to assume that he believes in his alternate method of reaching voters and winning the race. The other possible interpretation, that this decision on his part simply reflects incompetence, is one I'm reluctant to reach, yet with each passing day, I consider it more seriously....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com