`Tis the night before...Bill Clinton does a fly-in for Kirsten Gillibrand. Gillibrand who is running against John Sweeney (Thug, NY 20), has scored the biggest name she could in Democratic circles, and boy are we happy.
Yeah, I am excited. I missed Bill the one time he stopped into New York's Capital District several years ago and I still haven't gotten over it.
But I digress.
In the last few weeks of Gillibrand's campaign, she has caught fire. Big names have been coming into the area to stump for her - Schumer, Spitzer, a couple of days ago Hillary come in and now Bill.
Do they all get what those who have been helping her campaign have already figured out? Kirsten Gillibrand, a great candidate, has a real chance of knocking the Miami Mob Boss off his high horse and back to Clifton Park where he can calculate how much more money he will make on K Street.
As I walk the streets of Clifton Park, Sweeney's new home town, I find people open to change. They have had enough and they think the young and very smart who is taking him on might just be what they need. What WE need. All of us - not only in or near the 20th CD, but also the entire country.
Gillibrand has given me hope.
In these last couple of weeks, find a candidate who gives you hope, even if it is just a little, and help him or her get elected.