Unelected Senator Gillibrand got an opponent. I totally expected because there has been a war on Democracy in New York when it comes to the Senate race that her petitions would be challenged!! But they weren't so a name will be on the ballot opposite Gillibrands. If you didn't like anything about Gillibrands conservative house record on many issues you can protest! Awesome stuff.
Some excerpts from her website
Goode is running to ask Senator Gillibrand the important questions, such as why, this year, she supported the repeal of a federal policy on record keeping for gun background checks, a law she originally co-sponsored a year earlier in Congress. As a Bronx Assistant DA, Goode examined the bodies of gun shot victims and witnessed first hand the terrible results caused by a lack of background checks on illegal guns. Perhaps this issue is, most of all, illustrative of the difference between Ms. Goode and Ms. Gillibrand: Goode's life experiences make her better prepared to represent the interests of New Yorkers in the Senate. Her deep convictions and beliefs forged by these experiences eliminate the need for pollsters, focus groups and speechwriters to tell her what positions to take.
Goode asks: What New Yorker, if given a choice, would vote for a Senator who tried to block a federal investigation into the connection between cancer and cigarette smoking? According to a New York Times op-ed on April 9th, 2009, "Ms. Gillibrand spent a significant chunk of her professional life working at a prestigious New York City law firm and representing the world's largest cigarette company, Philip Morris. . . where her duties included helping the company fend off the Justice Department as it sought damaging research and other internal documents regarding the health risks of its products."
http://www.gailgoode.com/
Go Gail!!