Someone forwarded me an email from a Southern Tier Democratic Party chair. Aside from expressing regret at Nachbar's candidacy, it also reported that most of the Southern Tier Democratic Committees are so upset by Nachbar's candidacy that they won't even meet with him.
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I've heard every county but Monroe is going to either endorse Massa, write Nachbar a letter asking him not to run, or something like that.
I've also heard that at least one county has allowed him to come, just to fill his ear with reasons why he shouldn't run and then send him home.
Nachbar just cancelled - at the last minute - the meeting with the one committee that was willing to see him (because they wanted to give him ‘an earful’, as you put it). The reason? It seems he thought it was more important to take his son to tour a college campus over the weekend.
Touring a college campus is important for a young man.
However, it doesn't give me faith in Nachbar's ability to run a vigorous grassroots campaign.
Massa had his chance and he LOST. How that makes him some kind of commodity is beyond me. Is there something wrong with taking your child to look at colleges? Is it more important to go meet with a bunch of close-minded people who have already thrown in their hats behind a loser? You people are turning my support towards Nachbar or, at least, opening my mind to hear what he has to say. Lucky for the district there's only twelve of you.
I know there aren't a lot of Democrats in the Southern Tier, but I think that the membership of every Southern Tier Democratic Committee is a little more than 12.
I wasn't talking about the Southern Tier Democrats, I was talking about you people who keep bashing a candidate you know nothing about for the sake of a guy who couldn't win in the year that the country went blue, against a guy who put a gun in his wife's mouth. No doubt you are very loud with your bitterness and contempt, but I'm quite sure that there aren't so many of you as you would make it seem. I work in the Southern Tier, in a county that Massa didn't even approach last time and I, for one, am very interested in a democrat who has found success in his own life. I am not sure why everyone uses that against him. furthermore, the cheap attacks are not why I'm a democrat. People who really care about the good of the party and the good of the country, don't just jump on one side without hearing the other. Kuhl needs to go and Massa had a straight shot without any challenge in the primary and he lost. Just because you people formed relationships with him before, doesn't mean you owe it to him to attack whoever challenges him. And the thought that there are democratic committees that won't even speak to him, if that's true- is just plain sickening.