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Don Silberger’s Gubernatorial “Campaign”
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| Contributor | Chronicler |
| Last Edited | Chronicler May 10, 2006 05:25am |
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| News Date | Wednesday, May 10, 2006 11:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Don Silberger didn’t really want to be governor. He’s 76 and fond of flip-flops and suspenders, not the power suits of Albany. Plus, he likes his job as a math professor at SUNY New Paltz.
But he didn’t want his beloved Libertarian Party to lose its identity. So Silberger jumped into the ring for the Libertarian nomination for New York’s top job. And he stayed in, even after big name Bill Weld came calling for it, too. All of which made the New York Libertarian Party convention April 29 something of a news event, and which placed the tiny party at a crossroads.
Weld, the former two-term Massachusetts governor – with a libertarian streak – could give the low-government party something it’s not had in years: the 50,000 votes needed to hold a ballot line for all its candidates until 2010. With him, some said, the 800-member party could become a player in the state.
But others worried it was selling its ideals for a standard-bearer who doesn’t really represent this small, passionate group. Silberger does... |
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