LISNews: Power Influencer, Passion Catalyst

Candidates telephone messages suck, they take too long for the recording to come on the line and people probably hang up.

As long as we're being generous with unsolicited (and probably unwanted) advice, other suggestions for candidates come to mind.

Jeanine F. Pirro might consider dropping that line about how she is "standing up for women" in her race against Andrew M. Cuomo for attorney general. The Helen Reddy bit doesn't really work the way it once did; many women do not see their own success or failure as hinging on Ms. Pirro's fortunes.

As for Mr. Cuomo, his latest campaign commercial is a hagiography of Eliot Spitzer. He promises to continue Mr. Spitzer's work as attorney general. That's it? He wants to be known not just as Mario's son but also as Eliot's little brother?

More general complaining about the candidates.

Kind of a whiny article but I agree too. Stop freaking calling me. I don't really like people I know calling me very often, I sure as heck don't want people I don't know making recordings to bother me.

I already know who I am going to vote for (and they are not all Republicans). Then again I feel an obligation to vote based upon more than soundbites and advertisements. I look to records for those who hold or held and office and the experience and statements of those who are new to office. I also automatically add a negative strike to anyone who is a lawyer so they start out below everyone else when I consider the candidates.