Well apparently the people in the district don’t support or think Mesi has a chance of winning. If they did he would be pulling in more. What does bother me is the donations from New York City… Our biggest problem IS NY City influence and now we see it in the Mesi campaign? Independent my a$$…
Everyone should be worried when down state politicians and interests want to buy off any legislator and especially a candidate. Too much of this goes on with our current crop of legislators, get them when their new and they own them for their whole career. Mesi will loose.
Mesi’s political donations come mainly from outside his district
ALBANY — If all politics is local, Democrat Joe Mesi had some problems during the most recent fundraising period for his State Senate campaign.
Only $350 out of $140,000 he raised during a recent 14-day stretch came from voters or business interests from within the 61st Senate District — a showing his opponent, Republican Michael Ranzenhofer, immediately seized upon Monday.
“It’s kind of astonishing to see such a huge amount of money coming from outside the area,” said Ranzenhofer, an Erie County legislator who is locked in a battle with Mesi, a former boxer, for the seat being vacated by retiring State Sen. Mary Lou Rath, a Williamsville Republican. more–>
[...] Thompson at Albany’s Insanity made the following point: Well apparently the people in the district don’t support or think Mesi has a chance of winning. [...]