I would love to see Irey jump back in. She was very popular on FR, unfortunately, that campaign took a big financial toll on her.
Yes, I liked Irey a lot also. She was on Quinn and Rose’s show a lot back then. I think she knew Rose somehow. I take exception to smoothsailings characterization as Bill Russell being the only one to ever take on Murtha. Irey ran a tough campaign against him and didn’t let up on any punches. I don’t want to disparage Russell. I like him. But right now he is being selfish and needs to just run for the primary win and quit whining about the process to take the rest of Murtha’s term.
One other thing, it seems to me that Russell is trying to make out that this is like the Hoffman/Scozzafava situation up in New York. It is nothing like it. He has a chance to run in the primary just like everyone else. The state was not going to have a special election so close to the regular primary. That would have been a waste of money and there would not have been a good turnout anyways.