The Albany Project has an account of the recent New York State Democratic Rural Conference on Saturday. It's weirdly fixated on describing the contents of the buffet table, but there's some meat: Writer Adama Brown critiques the AG candidates' plans for rural New York, and declares a front runner.
[Eric] Dinallo is the only candidate with a serious plan for making the Attorney General's office work for rural New York. [Kathleen] Rice attempted to get in on the action with her own rural plan, but it lacked the teeth of Dinallo's plan in the form of deputy AG's for each county. Rice's plan simply offered "regional offices" and "advisory councils." A free bit of advice for people running for statewide office--the rural counties are used to getting blown off and fed shiny words that mean nothing, because the person saying them has no intention of committing. We can recognize when you're telling us something that sounds good but will end up being irrelevant to the day to day operations of the office.
At the conference, Dinallo won handily in the straw poll held among Democratic leaders in each election year.
