Tonko & Sheehan Host Event For NY-21 Dem Woolf
Liz Benjamin
Just as Republican voters are heading to the polls in NY-21 to select a candidate to run on Row B in November, two top Capital Region Democratic leaders have signed on to help raise campaign cash for the man whose name will appear on Row A: Aaron Woolf.
Rep. Paul Tonko and Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan will co-host an event at the Tap & Tea Room in Albany this Friday to benefit Woolf, a first-time candidate who is running on the Democratic line in place of retiring Rep. Bill Owens. Tickets to the event start at $1,000 and run to $5,000 a head.
The invitation notes that Woolf is a DCCC designated Red to Blue candidate, which means hes a priority candidate for the House Democrats, who would very much like to keep ahold of the seat that they wrested from the GOP in a special election in 2009. Prior to Owens victory in that election, the Republicans had held the seat for well over a century.
http://www.nystateofpolitics.com/2014/06/tonko-sheehan-host-event-for-ny-21-dem-woolf/