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General News: Townsend Announces Senate Run
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| Jay Townsend. |
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| Townsend with three of his sons and wife, Rebecca. |
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| Mary Vance and Peter Duggan sign up with Margaret Harbison to support Townsend. |
May 01, 2010
Standing against a backdrop of a sparkling Hudson River, Cornwall-on-Hudson resident Jay Townsend launched his campaign for U.S. Senate on Saturday morning, announcing that he will challenge Senator Charles Schumer for his seat in the November election.
With his wife, Rebecca, and three of his five sons at this side, Townsend, 55, delivered a finely-tuned speech in which he appealed to a broad range of New Yorkers, describing his early years as a Democrat working for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his conversion to the intellectual ideals espoused by conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. He acknowledged his 84-year-old father, a former member of the Indiana state legislature who is “still a ‘stubborn Democrat” and said that he is not as stubborn but left the party “when it left me.”
Calls Schumer Leader of Governing Elite
Townsend painted a picture of Schumer, who is running for his third term in the senate, as a leader of the governing elite that seeks to turn the United States into a high-tax European-style state. He pinned a series of economic woes on Schumer, saying his “spending spree is about to drown the next generation in a tsunami of red ink.”
About 100 of Townsend’s supporters appeared at the riverfront gazebo to encourage his move, the first run for office since college days. But Townsend is no stranger to politics, he has managed the campaigns of dozens of politicians nationwide, including the current one of Nan Hayworth, who is running for the Republican nomination in the 19th-district congressional race. Former Orange County legislator Alan Seidman introduced Townsend and praised his wisdom and courage to speak his mind.
Locals Sign on to Support Him
Townsend dismissed Schumer’s $22 million dollar war chest, saying it reflected the time he spent raising money rather than representing the people of New York. Townsend’s supporters in the crowd Saturday morning, who included members of St. John’s Episcopal Church where he is an active member, were ready to do their part to help their candidate get elected as they passed petitions to enlist volunteers.
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