> As our parting gift to Pataki, re-elect Alan Hevesi for NY State Comptroller
6 November 2006, 03:14
Callaghan was not "picked" by the Republicans. He had to go from county to county and make his case to each county chair. Scott Vaderhoff was in the running early on too. Everyone thought that republicans would back Vanderhoff hands down. But Callaghan won everyone over with his experience and sincerity, not his bank account and high power friends (he has much of neither). This is an honest guy that has beat the odds with a grass roots campaign and you want to write him off just because he is a republican.
Callaghan was not "picked" by the Republicans. He had to go from county to county and make his case to each county chair. Scott Vaderhoff was in the running early on too. Everyone thought that republicans would back Vanderhoff hands down. But Callaghan won everyone over with his experience and sincerity, not his bank account and high power friends (he has much of neither). This is an honest guy that has beat the odds with a grass roots campaign and you want to write him off just because he is a republican.