The New York Post submitted this snippit on Saturday saying that New York State Independence Party chairman Frank MacKay says Repub gov candidate William Weld met with Lenora Fulani "seeking to win Independence Party backing by currying favor with a discredited faction linked to the controversial Lenora Fulani." Weld spokeswoman Andrea Tantaros denied that the former Massachusetts governor met with Fulani or her supporters. [more]
In case you're not familiar with what's happening in the Independence Party of New York, the short story here is that the IP state chair MacKay recently ran a McCarthy-esque purge of the "downstate" leadership (i.e. the New York City black and progressive operation that was Bloomberg's margin of victory in 2001 and went on to pull 75,000 votes for the Mayor in 2005, along with 47% of the black vote -- and boy, does that make the Dems and Repubs nervous!).
Fulani is controversial because she's independent. She plays politics on behalf of ordinary people, not the party hacks of New York or the nation. [Read Richard Carter's article from the Amsterdam News here.]
- NH
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