LETTER: Tasini challenging Gillibrand  

Jonathan Tasini, former president of the National Writers Union, will challenge Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (the unelected occupant of the junior Senate seat, placed there by our unelected governor) in the September 2010 Democratic primary.

Tasini, who defeated former Sen. Hillary Clinton in the city of Ithaca in the 2006 Senate primary, provides a genuinely progressive alternative to Gillibrand, a corporate lawyer who has worked for Big Tobacco (Philip Morris) and has been a pro-gun, anti-immigrant "Blue Dog" Democrat during her tenure in Congress.

Tasini could win this race, if progressive Democrats spread the word about his candidacy

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