Republican convention VS Democrat convention
By Rus Thompson

Alot has been said this week about the two political conventions that were held this week. The Democrats convention was held in Buffalo and the Republicans held theirs in New York City.

One thing stands out to me and it should to every single voter in New York State. Although the media is reporting that the Republicans are split, fighting and in all out chaos, they at least held a convention and invited every single candidate in and allowed them to speak. The door was open to them all. The convention was held in New York City but Western New York was well represented.

Now with the media point of view every thing with the Democrat convention was just perfect. Yet the doors were closed and locked out were any candidates wanting to run a primary against their picks, in other words they will have no one upset the apple cart and the coronation of the governor candidate or god forbid their hollywood star senator. Downstate was well represented in their convention.

Left out to speak in Lafayette Sq. was Tom Suozzi, in my opinion the best candidate for governor on the Democrat side. He spoke to a 300+ crowd at noon on a Tuesday. A good crowd for the middle of a work day. Tom at least has experience in the government management aspect unlike Spitzer, the Attorney General, who just loves going after big business. Tom Suozzi has a record, he pulled his county out of dire straights and put it on the path back to economic success.

Other candidate were not invited to speak and are running against Hillary Clinton, Jonathan Tasini and I think the mans name is William Greenstein.

So say what you want about the two conventions, how unified the Democrats was and how split the Republicans was, one message is clear. The Republicans convention was an open process, all candidates were invited, they were allowed to speak and the way the free voting process came out, there will be a Primary and to me that is a good thing. Let the people choose, not the Party.

I prefer an open process where all are invited.
Not a closed door coronation where challengers are snuffed out and you are not given a choice. The decision is yours folks, but as far as I’m concerned, if I were a Democrat I would vote for Suozzi.

I am a Republican and for governor, I will be voting for Faso.