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An Underdog Who Isn’t Daunted by a New Try for the Senate -- NY Times
Submitted by Anna on Tue, 01/26/2010 - 18:21
The New York Times
January 26, 2010
The long shot ate breakfast with his mother. She asked for campaign buttons for her friends. He handed her a dozen. She got worried. That many? Weren’t they expensive? Calm down, Mom, he said, they’re cheap.
Jonathan Tasini is running against Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand to be the United States senator from New York.
How could she not worry? Most of the long shot’s time was spent drumming up money so he could be elected United States senator from New York.
He recently took a leave from his job to campaign full-time for the Democratic nomination. When he worked, he made $110,000 a year. Now: zero.
Ed. Note: PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter is quoted in the article
