See that little link up there…?
We’ll a reader used it to submit this question:
Not a tip, just a question. Do we have a viable candidate to run against Castle? If so, who is it, why haven’t I heard about them and what are we doing to promote them. If ever there was a vulnerable year for Castle, this is it.
You haven’t I heard about them? Well, there is your answer.
Sadly, we don’t have a viable candidate to run against Castle even though he would have been pretty vulnerable this year.
We have three less-than-viable candidates in Karen Hartley-Nagle, Jerry Northington and Mike Miller. If these three pooled all of their money they would still be about $995,000 short of what it would take to run a decent race against any statewide incumbent.
I could go into details about why I think each candidate is not viable (beyond the money issue) but suffice to say that if you are dying of a gun shot wound, who cares that you also have chicken pox.
PS. With George Bush in the Mix, 2006 was the time when Castle was the most vulnerable. We botched that up in too many ways to count, but Castle dodged a real bullet two years ago.