Democratic Party Chairman Joe Morelle — The Ultimate Cat Whisperer?
It has been said that leading Democrats is like herding cats. I’ve never tried it, but it certainly makes sense — just look at the Presidential primary. If that is the case, when you look at the handiwork of Democratic Party Chairman Joe Morelle in delivering his party’s nomination to a flawed candidate — RICHard Dollinger, the only conclusion is that Morelle is the ultimate cat whisperer (insert cat for horse in definition).
The Democrat and Chronicle had a piece Wednesday announcing that RICHard Dollinger has secured the Democratic nomination to run against Senator Joe Robach. According to the D&C:
Dollinger received more weighted votes than the other two Democrats who were seeking the endorsement in committee caucuses held throughout the district, according to Sean Hart, communications director for the Monroe County Democratic Committee.
We at Monroerising.com have been very outspoken about the candidacy of RICHard Dollinger. I have felt all along that Dollinger wasn’t really interested in the Senate. The fact that he quit the Senate, took time off, then ran for Democratic Party Chair — gave a great speech and quit that a month later to run for Brighton Town Judge so he could quit that to run for Senate just doesn’t make sense. I gave rank and file Democrats credit enough to recognize RICHard as a pompous, self serving hypocrite, who really only cares about what is good for him. Even liberals would see this, right?
Even after Mr. Peabody predicted that Chairman Morelle’s support would put RICHard over the top, I disagreed. But you have to give Morelle his due. Based on what I’ve seen in the media, Frankel took the Brighton Democratic Committee and Dollinger took everything else.
Morelle’s support is the only thing that can explain this strong showing by Dollinger. It will be interesting to see what happens now. Sandy Frankel must be weighing her options. She did well considering the deck was stacked against her. The big question is whether Morelle’s support would have the same results if she were to take it to a primary.
To use your influence to deliver the votes of a couple hundred of the Democratic faithful is very impressive. But I doubt even the ultimate cat whisperer could help Dollinger win a fair fight with Democratic primary voters. Mrs. Frankel has a lot to think about!
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It looks like we have our own little piece of local Democratic chaos going on. According to the
Messenger post Dick Dollinger leads the three way race, with committee members, but not enough to put him over the top. Looks like Joe Morelle is just as ineffective with his heard of cats as is Howard Dean is with the national committee. No wonder that the local Democrats go through a chairman about once a year. I bet Dick will be as ineffective in his senate campaign as he was as local chairman. He got out of the kitchen because he could not take the heat. It’s even hotter now.
Once again, I think it is terrible that the Democratic leadership is not supporting one of the female candidates. Like them or not, agree with them or not, both Sandra Frankel and Willa Powell are at least current elected officials chosen by their constituents to represent them in their respective offices.
What has Mr. Dollinger done besides quit every job we the people elect him to? We elected him to the state senate in the past, and he quit that job. People then chose not to elect him to two different higher level judge positions. We Brighton residents elected him as our town judge and he quit that position to.
Mr. Dollinger cannot continue to use the voters to shop around for his own personal gain and ambitions. We are getting tired of it.
Besides, I like Senator Robach. He is one of the few Republicans I vote for because he is more about the people that political partisan attacks.
I’m sorry Mr. Dollinger but enough is enough. I, my family and friends are not with you this year.