Thanks, But No Thanks
Liz Benjamin
Maybe there’s something in the water that Republicans have been drinking these days, but the party’s would-be Senate candidates are dropping like flies.
Sen. George Maziarz seems to have sparked a trend by filing petition signatures to run on the GOP line in the fall and then declining the nomination at the very last minute, sending party leaders scrambling to find a replacement. No fewer than four other Republicans have done the exact same thing this week. (Monday was the deadline for accepting or declining nominations).
In at least one case, the candidate’s decision to bow out appears to be a strategic move by the Senate Republicans in hopes of finding someone stronger to run for a seat they very much need to keep – especially now that they have four empty seats to defend.
Anthony Senft, a Conservative Islip town board member who was supposed to run for the seat being vacated by Sen. Lee Zeldin as he seeks to oust Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop, announced suddenly that he has terminated his candidacy and officially declined the GOP, Conservative and Independence Party lines.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/07/thanks-but-no-thanks/
