Kruegers Primary Foe Drops Out
The primary challenge to State Sen. Liz Krueger was a brief affair: Michael Cohen, counsel to Donald Trump, began announcing his bid to unseat the eight-year incumbent in December and declared he would not run Jan. 21. Cohen released a statement citing professional and personal reasons that prevented him from mounting a successful campaign. â??Giving the people of this district anything less than a fully committed alternative to the status quo would be wrong, he wrote in an e-mail. Cohen criticized Krueger for voting on a budget that increased taxes for the wealthy and for being a part of Albany"s dysfunction. As an executive in Trump Organization, he had connections to the business community and claimed to have $400,000 in pledged contributions. He said he was also willing to partially self-finance. Bowing out, he took a parting shot at Krueger and Albany"s notoriously dysfunctional legislature. â??The people of the 26th Senate District deserve better than what they're currently getting, Cohen wrote. And part of that means they deserve a candidate who is both willing to take on the status quo and has all of the time and resources necessary to dedicate to the campaign. The only challenger Krueger has so far is Saul Farber, a 24-year-old Republican who ran for State Assembly in 2008.